Chinese Medicine and Feng Shui
"One way to view the "channel" system of acupuncture is to compare it with the way rivers, streams, reservoirs and underground springs function in nature, which then become a metaphor for the functions and transportation of the vital substances (qi [chi], blood, essence, body fluids) throughout the body."
The Impact of Unconscious Bias in Healthcare
Article includes how to recognize and mitigate unconscious bias within healthcare professionals and systems.
One tool mentioned is the Implicit Association Test (IAT), which aims to measure unconscious bias: https://implicit.harvard.edu/implicit/
The Role of Chinese Medicine
"As practitioners of Chinese medicine, after all, we do not need to know the precise type of virus we are dealing with. How then, does Chinese medicine determine the etiology of this disease? ... it is still human observational skills that are most important for all successful treatment, formatted in the system of differential diagnostics." Eastern Medicine treats the body, not the disease.
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"What else are you going to rely on? The simple fact is that you have to instill a certain degree of medical expertise in every citizen to really be able to keep everyone healthy...educating each individual in the basics of our medicine..."
The Five Elements: Metal (Lung)
One of the five elements, Metal, is in charge of both the Lung (yin organ) and the Large Intestine (yang organ), which are a pair. Beneficial colors: White, Silver, Grey, Metallics
"Metal is the energy of autumn; it gives us our sense of quality and value, and our capacity to look at what lies beyond ourselves. It gives us the power to let go. It represents our father."
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Emotion: sadness/grief