Dennis von Elgg Acupuncture

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LwiOBlyWpko If you live to 85, you have a 50% chance of suffering from dementia. This is what it looks like when compassion and humanity are the priorities.

Never a better time ...

On Tuesday, March 31, 2015, myself and Donna Lowe of Far Leaves Tea will be hosting an educational and tasty evening of Tea at Donna's store at 2626 San Pablo Avenue in Berkeley at 6:00 p.m. We can take about a dozen folks so contact me to sign up. If the numbers exceed 12 we will schedule additional events. The cost is $20. Any takers?

On Saturday, March 21st, AIMC is hosting the Northern California California State Oriental Medicine Association conference at their campus in Berkeley from 8:45 5:00. It’s an all-day event with presenters Dennis von Elgg, Nishanga Bliss, Mori West, Katrina Hanson and a variety of vendors. For acupuncturists CSOMA is offering five CEUs for just $40. You can select from three topics to complete your five CEUs. Dennis will be presenting on the topic of Sitter’s Disease: The Im...portance of Upbearing the Yang Qi. Sitter’s Disease is a broad yet highly dangerous epidemic that takes its toll on those who live inactive lives. Dennis will present the history and physiology of sitting as a lifestyle, and discuss Chinese medicine strategies to motivate people to keep moving. For more information and to register go to CSOMAs website at: www.csomaonline.org See more

This from Rob Brezsny: FLIP-FLOP THE TRAUMATIC IMPRINT Beauty and Truth Lab researcher Artemisia had just begun menstruating, and was suffering from debilitating cramps. Massive doses of ibuprofen were not relieving the distress, so she went to her regular acupuncturist, Dr. Lily Ming, to get relief.... Dr. Ming had Artemisia lie down on the table and proceeded to insert 10 needles in her belly and hand and ear. Then Dr. Ming introduced a treatment that Artemisia was unfamiliar with: She lightly pounded the nail of Artemisia's left big toe with a small silver hammer for a few minutes. "Why are you doing that?" Artemisia asked. "It is good for the uterus," the doctor replied. Indeed, Artemisia's cramps diminished as the doctor thumped, and in the days to come they did not recur. After the session, as Artemisia prepared to leave, the usually taciturn Ming started up a conversation. Artemisia was surprised, but listened attentively as Dr. Ming made a series of revelations. The most surprising was Dr. Ming's description of a traumatic event from her own childhood. During the military occupation of her native Manchuria, a province of China, she was forced to witness Japanese soldiers torturing people she loved. Their primary atrocity was using hammers to drive bamboo shoots through their victims' big toes. The moral of the story: Dr. Ming has accomplished the heroic feat of reversing the meaning of her most traumatic imprint. She has turned a symbol of pain into a symbol of healing.

Time for a little Friday Night Double Extraction Action.

The Fall Equinox. The sun has sunk below the equator ... or risen below, depending on your hemispheric perspective. To me it means October baseball, winds in the trees, bbq yielding to curries, and the nourishing of our Yin selves: music, art, walks and a bit more sleep! What does it mean for you?

All good medicine knows where the moon is .... But the FULL moon, it sitrs the Qi and Blood, comforts the Yin and expands the Yang, and there isn't anything, ANYTHING wrong with that.

There are now a multitude of studies that show that mothers and babies should be together, skin to skin (baby naked, not wrapped in a blanket) immediately after birth, as well as later. The baby is happier, the baby’s temperature is more stable and more normal, the baby’s heart and breathing rates are more stable and more normal, and the baby’s blood sugar is more elevated. Not only that, skin to skin contact immediately after birth allows the baby to be colonized by the same bacteria as the mother. This, plus breastfeeding, are thought to be important in the prevention of allergic diseases. When a baby is put into an incubator, his skin and gut are often colonized by bacteria different from his mother’s.