How do we diagnose and treat fever with Chinese Herbal Medicine?
I’m posting some of my essays from my recent course in Chinese Herbal Medicine. They illustrate the thinking process of how we diagnose and treat fever and other conditions with Chinese Medicine. This one is from my final exam. It was a rather short question which made answering difficult but I got a great grade. Case…
Understand persistent pain in less than five minutes.
This great video from Australia explains in under five minutes the latest understanding of what persistent pain is and how best to deal with it. Acute vs Persistent Pain Acute pain results from tissue injury and is mostly self-limiting in under 3 months. Pain lasting longer than 3 months comes from the brain and is…
Persistent Pain Booklet
Where Does it Hurt? When we are pain we tend to think we know what is hurting. We twist our ankle, our ankle hurts. We say, ‘my ankle hurts’. It’s probably fair to say, yes, the ankle hurts. But what about chronic or persistent pain? What if you tweak your back and 3 months later…
Learning How to Learn Chinese
Learning How to Learn. I’ve been doing a wonderful course entitled , ‘Learning How to Learn – Powerful mental tools to help you master tough subjects’ by by Dr. Terrence Sejnowski and Dr. Barbara Oakley. The course is a MOOC (massive open online course) offered by coursera. I’ve never done one of these courses but…