Over the Christmas period I was watching and old comedy sketch by Morecambe and Wise from the 1970s which is the one with Andre Previn . After playing the piano really badly Morecomb turns and says to Andre “ I am playing all the right notes, but not necessarily in the right order”! Anyway, the […]
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Out of the bag -plenty of bang for your buck!
For those of you reading this who has visited my clinic, you will be familiar with the smell of the smoke and experience of a good body (and mind) awakening moxa treatment. People who first enter my clinic sometimes comment that they think I may smoke pot between my patients! I had one Dutch fellow […]
Much ado about the art of doing (exercise)
( versión española estará disponible en breve ) It’s very hard to strike a happy medium with exercise. Firstly, you are in effect traumatizing your body and then need to recover. Secondly, you need to make sure that you have enough energy to exercise (to aid the recovery) and finally, why do it in […]
A Word or Two from Zhang Zongjing
Below I have translated the preface to Zhang Zhongjing’s Classic “The Treatise on Cold Damage” compiled around 220AD. I translated it a while back while in Japan from Ikeda Sensei’s Japanese translation of the Sho Kan Ron Handbook with a little bit of help from my wife. I will later post the original so you can […]
The Magic of Warm Water
I was on a flight yesterday from London and the gentleman next to me was sweating a lot and telling his friend that he thought he was going to be sick. While I was listening to this conversation I was reminded of a time when I used to travel on packed traIns in the summer […]