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11/29/2020

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Quello che vi mostriamo quest’oggi è uno dei più spettacolari esempi di ricamo cinese.
Risalente al VIII secolo, il disegno su questo tessuto raffigura Shakyamuni, considerato il fondatore storico del buddismo, che legge il Sutra del Loto, accompagnato da discepoli e spiriti femminili, ed è stato realizzato con dei fili di seta applicati su un tessuto in .
Benchè perfettamente conservato, il ricamo ha subito dei danni in diversi punti, viste le dimensioni di circa 2,5 per 1,5 metri. Il tessuto di canapa, invece, è rimasto pressoché intatto, confermando la sua fama di fibra estremamente durevole nel tempo!

11/17/2020

Ancient herbal and traditional medicine brilliance. If you want to know why western conventional medicine is subpar it's because they've abandoned hot/cold treatment principals and understanding, they seek a one pill fits all model that consistently fails, and they use synthetic materials rather than actual plants.

In English and translated into Italian:

Herbal liniments have long been used in association with cupping because it's unique warming and opening the skin pores effect creates a unique conduit for herbs to pe*****te deep into the body. I have come across such information in old books from European, Chinese and Islamic medical sources.
Here's an interesting first-hand example from fairly recent times in China. In 1998, while being escorted around clinical departments at the Shanghai Hospital of TCM, I noted one patient suffering a serious back injury who had a very large cup applied to his mid thoracic region. This specially designed cup had a two way valve which allowed it to be pumped, and another opening which had a tube attached and fastened to a drip at the other end - which fed herbal medicine into the active cup. The cup while adhered to the body had around an inch (2.54cm) of this fluid within. When I returned to check around 20 minutes later, all this medication had successfully absorbed into the patient's body.

My formula (see pic), which I call 'Fascia Strengthening Liniment', is designed to be rubbed in during and after treatments using silicone cupping vessels to rectify fascial discord.
It consists of:
Ài Yè (Artemisiae Argyi Folium) – warm, dispels cold dampness, stops pain due to cold.
Dù Zhòng (Eucommiae Cortex) – warm, strengthens the sinews especially the lower back and knees, aids smooth flow of qi and blood, (with esp. Dú Huó).
Chuān Xiōng (Chuanxiong Rhizoma) – warm, moves the blood and promotes the qi,
disperses blood stasis.
Niú Xī (Chuanxiong Rhizoma) – neutral, disperses blood stasis, strengthens sinews and bones.
Ròu Guì (Cinnamomi Cortex) – hot, warms and tonifies yang, disperses deep cold and warms the channels.
Xù Duàn (Dipsaci Radix) – sl. warm, promotes movement of blood alleviates pain and recon- nects sinews and bones. Literal English translation: “reconnect what is broken”.
Gān Jiāng (Zingiberis Rhizoma) – hot, unblocks channels, revives yang and expels cold. Disperses cold qi in all channels.
Guì Zhī (Cinnamomi Ramulus) – warm, releases the muscle layer, unblocks yang qi, releases the exterior, warms and unblocks the channels and collaterals: for wind-cold-damp obstruction, expels wind.
Dú Huó (Angelicae Pubescentis Radix) – warm, dispels wind, dampness and cold especially the lower back and legs, for acute and chronic disorders, tracks down lurking wind.
Qiāng Huó (Notopterygii Rhizoma Seu Radix) – warm, effective for dispelling wind with a focus on the upper and more superficial aspects of the body.

Read my essay 'Mending the Fascia with Modern Cupping' for detailed explanations of this procedure:
https://healthtraditions.com.au/essays/mending-the-fascia-with-modern-cupping/

• photo by Bruce Bentley

And wait there’s more! Here’s a translation from my Italian essay translator - the wonderful and gracious Paolo Fazi
Tradotto alla belle e meglo. Grazie Bruce Bentley
Health Traditions
https://www.facebook.com/HealthTraditions/posts/1465837360159995
I linimenti a base di erbe sono da tempo utilizzati in associazione con la coppettazione.
Il cupping è uno strumento unico per ottenere maggiore e più efficace assorbimento di un'applicazione a base di erbe esterne sulla superficie della pelle. Le ragioni fondamentali di ciò includono un aumento della temperatura di superficie e l'apertura dei pori della pelle. Il rilascio dei tessuti, ottenuto ad opera del vuoto, diventa anche un viatico per la penetrazione profonda nel corpo del medicamento.
Dalla lettura di vecchi testi mi è risultato evidente l'utilizzo della combinazione del cupping e delle medicazioni esterne nelle tradizioni mediche europee, cinesi ed islamiche.
Ecco un interessante esempio vissuto personalmente in Cina. Nel 1998, mentre mi accompagnavano in visita ai dipartimenti clinici presso l'Ospedale di TCM di Shanghai, ho notato un paziente che soffriva di gravi lesioni alla schiena e che aveva una coppa molto grande applicata al centro della stessa. Questa tazza, appositamente progettata, aveva una valvola a due vie che le permetteva di produrre il vuoto ed un'altra apertura con un tubo collegato e fissato all'altra estremità ad una fleboclisi che vi conduceva il medicinale a base di erbe. La tazza, aderente al corpo, conteneva circa 2,5 cm. di questo fluido. Quando sono tornato a controllare, circa 20 minuti più tardi, tutto il farmaco era stato assorbito con successo dal corpo del paziente.
La mia formula (vedi foto), che io chiamo "Fascia Fortify Liniment", è stata progettata per essere frizionata durante e dopo i trattamenti che utilizzano coppette di silicone per rimediare alla disarmonia fasciale.
E' composto di:
Ài Yè (Artemisiae Argyi Folium) - caldo, disperde l'umidità fredda, arresta il dolore causato dal freddo.
Dù Zhòng (Eucommiae Cortex) - caldo, rafforza i muscoli, in particolare la schiena e le ginocchia, aiuta il flusso regolare del qi e del sangue (con esp. Dú Huó).
Chuān Xiōng (Chuanxiong Rhizoma) - caldo, muove il sangue e promuove il qi, muove la stasi del sangue.
Niú Xi(Chuanxiong Rhizoma) - neutro, disperde la stasi del sangue, rafforza muscoli ed ossa.
Ròu Guì (Cinnamomi Cortex) - calda, riscalda e tonifica lo yang, disperde il freddo profondo e riscalda i canali.
Xù Duàn (Dipsaci Radix) - tiepido, promuove il movimento del sangue allevia il dolore e recupera muscoli ed ossa. (Traduzione letterale inglese: "ricollega ciò che è rotto").
Gān Jiāng (Zingiberis Rhizoma) - caldo, sblocca i canali, tonifica lo yang ed espelle il freddo. Espelle il qi freddo in tutti i canali.
Guì Zhī (Cinnamomi Ramulus) - caldo, rilascia la muscolatura, sblocca lo yang qi, rilascia l'esterno, riscalda e sblocca i canali ed i collaterali: per l'ostruzione da vento e da freddo, espelle il vento.
Dú Huó (Angelicae Pubescentis Radix) - caldo, disperde il vento, l'umidità e il freddo soprattutto nella schiena e negli atri inferiori, per disturbi acuti e cronici, previene gli attacchi di vento.
Qiāng Huó (Notopterygii Rhizoma Seu Radix) - caldo, efficace per disperdere il vento, particolarmente sugli aspetti superiori e superficiali del corpo.
Leggete il mio saggio 'Mending the Fascia with Modern Cupping' per spiegazioni dettagliate di questa procedura.

https://healthtraditions.com.au/essays/mending-the-fascia-with-modern-cupping-it/

10/10/2020

I haven't felt much like posting here during the pandemic. I hope everyone is doing fine out there..blessings.

In a journal interview some thirty years ago I was asked:
Q: What do supernaturalistic medical traditions have to offer?
A: They move towards explaining ’why’ illness occurs. Naturalistic traditions based on natural phenomena such as weather conditions, viruses or diet account for ‘how’ someone gets sick.
The supernatural traditions are fascinating for many reasons, not least they aim to cure by reintegrating the patient back into the community by social means. Forms of supernaturalistic healing involve the work of a medium or spirit healer. A medium is a person who can communicate with the Spirit world. In Thailand, for example, a spirit talking through a medium may explain; so and so is unwell because they didn’t dust down their grandfather’s grave, or he/she has behaved in an offensive way by pi***ng on a tree where a spirit lives.
These are both transgressions from the social norm, set the person apart from the interests of the group and illness or misfortune ensues.
In response, when a person performs let’s say, the dusting down of the grave, he/she is no longer at odds with his/her social world. To restore health and harmony after urinating where you should not, in Thailand, garlands of flowers or colourful sashes are wrapped around the tree trunk and other gifts are left at the base while the appropriate prayers and apologies are recited.
I’ve heard of many cases where gravely ill people who have performed such rites recover immediately. They get better by restoring their place in the community.
Illness is treated in social terms. Curing is therefore a beautiful cosmology that stitches up frays in the social web and its weave with nature and the universe. It is a huge deep subject and there is much to consider.
Taken (mostly) from an interview called “Chinese Medicine: History and Philosophy” published in “Radiation from Space”.
Read it by clicking:
https://www.healthtraditions.com.au/essays/Radiation%20from%20Space.pdf
Spirit tree pic credit: www.flickr.com

05/03/2020

I haven't been in the mood to post here my friends. I hope you are all staying safe and healthy.

04/24/2020

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03/27/2020

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03/15/2020

From Bruce Bentley TY for the share!

"Cupping, or Ventouses in French, begins with the Latin prefix “vent” meaning “wind”, and so illustrates the main goal of “dry cupping” - being the withdrawal of wind according to Celsius (c. 25 BC – c. 50 AD), the Greco-Roman medical encyclopaedist who also stated, the “bleeding obvious” that “wet cupping” concerned itself with the withdrawal of blood, or rather plethora or excess blood.
The fancy bronze set cupping set at the top consists of a vacuum pump tube the info states it comes with a scarifier to incise the superficial flesh and so enable wet cupping. The 3 glass cups from the 1800’s below were more likely used for regular cupping. To the right you can see a glass lamp to hold some alcohol, with a wick to light to exhaust the atmosphere inside the cups and produce vacuum via partial negative pressure.
Photos: Bruce Bentley at Musée d'Histoire de la Médecine in Toulouse, France."

Cupping, or Ventouses in French, begins with the Latin prefix “vent”, from “ventus” meaning “wind”, and so illustrates the main goal of “dry cupping” - being the withdrawal of wind according to Celsius (c. 25 BC – c. 50 AD), the Greco-Roman medical encyclopaedist who also stated, the “bleeding obvious” that “wet cupping” concerned itself with the withdrawal of blood, or rather plethora or excess blood.
The fancy bronze set cupping set at the top consists of a vacuum pump tube the info states it comes with a scarifier to incise the superficial flesh and so enable wet cupping. The 3 glass cups from the 1800’s below were more likely used for regular cupping. To the right you can see a glass lamp to hold some alcohol, with a wick to light to exhaust the atmosphere inside the cups and produce vacuum via partial negative pressure.
Photos: Bruce Bentley at Musée d'Histoire de la Médecine in Toulouse, France.

03/07/2020

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02/22/2020

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