Guest guest Posted July 7, 2005 Report Share Posted July 7, 2005 " 2) Prof Xie has a number of poor term choices. For example, the phrase " five elements " is a poor choice because elements refer to simple substances and bear a similarity to the four elements of greek philosophy. This leads to an inappropriate understanding of the nature of the five phases, as the term xing means movement, not element. The five phases describe a process of dynamic change, not a division of elemental matter. " Marcus Aurelius (writing in Greek): " Always bear in mind what Heraclitus said: The death of earth is to pass into water, and the death of water to pass into air, and of air to pass into fire, and so back again (Meditations; IV.46) " Clearly Marcus Aurelius, whose physician was the celebrated Galen, understands intertransformation. The solidification or fossilization of the elements comes with the Periodic Table, not with the Greeks. Carl Ploss wrote: There are 5 messages in this issue. Topics in this digest: 1. wiseman standards " " 2. Practitioner directory " " 3. Re: Practitioner directory Al Stone 4. Acupuncture & TCM Data Online " " 5. Re: wiseman standards " Eric Brand " ______________________ ______________________ Message: 1 Wed, 06 Jul 2005 15:41:40 -0000 " " wiseman standards On the Standard Nomenclature of Traditional by Xie Zhufan. Foreign Language Press I found this a very interesting book on terminology, analyzing various English word choices. Apparently Xie has been working with the W.H.O. on the standards. http://www.redwingbooks.com/products/books/StaNomTCM.cfm doug ______________________ ______________________ Message: 2 Wed, 06 Jul 2005 18:08:08 -0000 " " Practitioner directory Dear Colleagues New member listings are up in the practitioner directory. Thank you for your support. BTW, for anyone else who wants a listing, feel free to include a few sentences about your practice when you register. Old members may also want to update their listings to this premium lifetime service. Either way, the information is at http://.org/membership/index.shtml#Premium And for those on the fence about whether it'll be worth your 50 bucks over a lifetime, CHA is about to release a few board approved online self-study classes and members get from 25-50% discounts! Finally and understandably for those many who just can't spring for it, there are other indirect ways to support CHA. Visit our sponsors and use our affiliates to make your purchases. None of advertisers will ever spam you and the sites actually have pretty good content. If you need to make a purchase from Amazon, use the search box on the lower right of the CHA homepage. The very small amount of money we make from these things serves merely to defray the time and cost of running the site. If you haven't seen our free multimedia online herb study guide, check it out at herbstudyguide/ This is just one of several new educationally related materials offered on the site. In the future, there will be an increase in materials devoted to making the best of the online learning environment. Check out the homepage for other new items regularly at http://.org/ Thanks for the always lively debate. Chinese Herbs ______________________ ______________________ Message: 3 Wed, 6 Jul 2005 13:18:42 -0700 Al Stone Re: Practitioner directory On Jul 6, 2005, at 11:08 AM, wrote: > New member listings are up in the practitioner directory. Thank > you for your support. > BTW, for anyone else who wants a listing, feel free to include a > few sentences about your > practice when you register. Old members may also want to update > their listings to this > premium lifetime service. Either way, the information is at > http://.org/membership/index.shtml#Premium If you want your website or name to appear in search engines as associated with words such as " chinese, herb, herbal, medicine " , etc. links from sites such as Todd's are valuable in that they help to lift your own search engine rankings for these terms. $50 for a link on a site that is clearly evolving is a good investment. Google likes new stuff and gives updated sites more weight in their search algorithm. (I have no incentive or affiliation with Todd's site other than my recent lifetime subscription.) -al. -- Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional. ______________________ ______________________ Message: 4 Thu, 07 Jul 2005 02:32:52 +0100 " " Acupuncture & TCM Data Online Dear Colleagues, http://altmed.iatp.org.ua/acupuncture/acupoints/ has useful data on TCM Basics, TCM Diagnosis, Acupoints, Special Points and a free database in zip format. Other useful data are at: www.acupunctureandherbalmedicine.com/document/link_acupuncture_ points.pdf www.tcmstudent.com/study_tools/Acupoint%20Tables.html www.tcmstudent.com/study_tools/Window%20of%20the%20Sky.html http://yinyanghouse.com http://www.acuxo.com http://www.tcm.no/ If you can read Chinese, http://www.acusky.com/index.htm has many data [in Chinese] on acupuncture. For data on the acupoints, see: http://www.acusky.com/shuxue/1.htm to http://www.acusky.com/shuxue/20.htm Best regards, Tel: (H): +353-(0) or (M): +353-(0) ; Ireland. Tel: (W): +353-(0) or (M): +353-(0) ; " Man who says it can't be done should not interrupt man doing it " - Chinese Proverb Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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