Health & Wellness

[Elin]

Really enjoyed this conversation on original Chinese medicine – right in line with what Dr. Barre discusses – – highly recommended. https://www.crrow777radio.com/593-classical-health-lineages-falling-to-agendas/

Discussion

[abram]

love Crow777

[barre]

I didn’t listen to this episode, but I’ll share a few comments about Chinese Medicine, as it was my area of emphasis in Naturopathic College. First off, TCM (Traditional Chinese Medicine) is a complete misnomer. TCM represents Mao’s evisceration of “Spirit” from all aspects of Chinese culture and to “standardize” training curriculums toward a more mechanistic-recipe mindset.

Fortunately, I was already engaged in the internal martial arts prior to my studies, which were formerly a prerequisite for the practice of Chinese medicine. Acupuncture was just a single component of traditional practice, and Qigong expertise was mandatory for energy transmission … a lack of such training results in empty needling.

I found it necessary to also do an extended apprenticeship with a Japanese meridian practitioner from a 5 century lineage. Select Japanese family lines retained much of the original understanding learned from the Chinese, and did not suffer the persecutions and restrictions of Communism. There’s another interesting facet to the bifurcation that occurred between Chinese & Japanese medics, but we’ll save that for a future discussion.

Japanese meridian practices also have remarkable similarities to old-school Osteopathy, so it facilitated a seamless integration of my two predominant hands-on modalities over years of practice. Bottom line, “TCM” is probably not the best criteria when seeking a quality practitioner.

• This reply was modified 8 months ago by  barre.

[Elin]

Exactly, Barre! Tommy makes all of these distinctions and observations in this episode! He would make a great guest on your podcast… 😀

[Penny]

@barre I studied herbalism and tui at the academy of Chinese culture and health sciences. There was a qi gong teacher who was from a family lineage who would teach a course then pick one or two students to study with him at his clinic. His family had been run out of china during the communist uprising. In any case, he didn’t pick me, so I showed up at his clinic one day and offered to clean the clinic in exchange for studying with him. Holy cow, I learned acupressure, tui na, qi gong, herbalism, acupuncture, dietary science, cooking, moxibustion, cupping, red light therapies so many modalities!

It was amazing. I would sleep in the clinic at night because it was an hour away from home and spend nights reading his books (well the ones I could). It was incredible the things I saw and learned.

[Kev]

This was the interview with Naturally Tommy??.. If so, he’s a member here (if you didn’t know), and posted this a while back.. Thanks for posting again.. Was *just* thinking about this conversation yesterday, and how the naturopaths were taken over and are no longer natural.. Clinics here advertise and push the childhood vaccination schedule, and it’s like their primary thing.. It’s ridiculous.. And they’re all masked and vaxxed too.. I only listened to the first hour, as I am not a paying member.. But I’m sure it was so good.. first hour was, and illuminating.. and good to see there are others holding the line on classical medicine..

[Elin]

oh wow didn’t know Tommy is in here! cool!

[Mike]

yes @naturallytom is right here! 💪

[Tommy Hughes]

💪 Glad to be here.

[Hulda]

Elin, the link you provide is for paid members, which I’m not. Here’s a link to the free (1st hour?):

https://www.crrow777radio.com/593-classical-health-lineages-falling-to-agendas-free/

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[Elin]

thank you, Hulda!

[Kathy M]

Following…thanks Hulda!

[Tommy Hughes]

Elin, Greetings! Thanks for posting my episode! Glad to you’re here in the AV group! Coolest community 😎

[Elin]

indeed it is and great to see you in here too!

[Kev]

Hey y’all.. The first episode of Tom’s podcast (called “Actually Living”) was posted today.. A good listen.. 🙂 .. @naturallytom

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l8RVEGJwmQA

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[Elin]

🤩

[Eliza]

Thank you! Kev, Tommy…but perhaps most importantly: Elin haha your star eyes caught my attention this morning and I was able to listen to this as I cleared the den room (aka piles of laundry room all summer). i’m hoping to make it a sort of winter health sanctuary…stretching, resting, tea…

What a small house we have…filled to the brim with love and dust. Haha this was such a perfect thing to listen to while while cleaning! 🙂 great for focusing on how to use this space with Tommy☺️Intention!

[Kev]

Is that the sunrise coming into the window of an empty room??

[Elin]

Just started listening to this one, and will be taking notes and copying the quotes!

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