Tracy Thorne, L.Ac. Japanese Acupuncture & Chinese Herbal Medicine

01/28/2023

01/28/2023

Baby hummingbird drinking juice from a raspberry.

01/16/2023

01/16/2023

This presentation is designed to highlight the health of the female cycle and how the fertility awareness chart can potentially aid in the diagnosis and management of common women’s health concerns.

This curriculum is available as both a live webinar and an in-person speaker presentation. Participation in the webinar is open to all audiences. Additionally, the course content has been reviewed and is acceptable for up to 1.50 Prescribed credit(s) by the American Academy of Family Physicians.

Register today at:

http://ow.ly/Q0ps50MkX5A

01/16/2023

Lunar New Year is approaching and we will be celebrating it in the garden from January 21st to February 5th. 🐇 This year, we are transitioning from “Chinese New Year” and instead wishing everyone a happy Lunar New Year! There are many Southeast and East Asian countries that celebrate the beginning of the new year based on the lunisolar calendar and we want to reflect that inclusivity at Lan Su. So please come visit and experience Lunar New Year as a connected community here in the garden!

🧧 Learn more at lansugarden.org/lny

01/16/2023

01/16/2023

10/06/2022

“From all sour faced saints, deliver me O’ Lord. I don’t want to be with a grouch, a crab, a crocodile in a moat. The grumps are a small minority. But they’re vocal. Yes, the grumps are vocal. They have unresolved things, maybe from their childhood. They’re not disconnected from God. But they’re wrestling with him. Not a bad thing, mind you. Not a bad thing. But I want to hang out with people who enjoy life. At home I have a sunshine file; it’s just a plastic box. Inside are all the letters people have written me over the years: teenagers in the youth group, widows who lost their husbands. People who I was able to make a difference in their life. For two years I was chaplain on the children’s ward of the cancer hospital. What can you say? You can’t explain why some things happen. Only that it’s a mystery. And a mystery is reality, imbued with God’s presence. One Christmastime there was a ten-year old girl from Ireland, dying of leukemia. All this girl wanted was a Cabbage Patch Doll. Ugliest doll you’ve ever seen in your life, seventy-five dollars. Seventy-five dollars! And sold out everywhere. The mother told me:’ I’ve looked in every store.’ That same day a family from my parish asked what I wanted for Christmas. I say: one Cabbage Patch Doll, and two walkie talkies. They said: ‘Father, are you sure?’ I told them: ‘Yes I’m sure. I was a kid once too!’ The Cabbage Patch Doll went to the little girl. Then I gave one walkie-talkie to her, and one to her twin brother. So they could speak while she was in isolation. After she passed away the mother wrote me a letter. I keep it in my sunshine file. It said: ‘Those walkie-talkies were the best medicine she ever had.’”

05/28/2022

May is Asian American & Pacific Islander Heritage Month. We are grateful for all the Asian Americans who took the risk to practice and introduce Americans to acupuncture and herbs when it was not legal to practice such medicine. Our medicine and profession would not be where it is today without their contribution.

OAA members can read through a brief history of acupuncture in Oregon by logging into the OAA website.