Qi Spot

I know it’s been a week since I came back from Beijing.  However, I needed some time to get used to Manila weather again and to catch up with some paperwork.  At the moment I have a conference to attend tomorrow, a lecture on wednesday and another on thursday.  And I’m not quite prepared yet ha ha.

My first thoughts after Beijing include these though:  acupuncture is like a baby brother to herbal medicine.  Second, there has to be a better name for herbal medicine, since not all are plants, and therefore, not all are herbs.  And third, a lot of these materia medica are common spices and vegetables in China.  It’s just how much are used, and in what combination.

I find myself liking pugongyin (dandelion) already…

Not so much real “news” but personal news.  I’ll be flying over to Beijing tomorrow for a one month preceptorship.  Well I won’t literally be flying… I’ll be riding a plane which will do the flying… ha.

Anyway as I was walking back to my Shenzhen hotel room with my walmart-purchased dinner, I glanced at the name of a hospital.  I had wanted to take a picture but the sun was setting and the lighting was sucky.  Anyway the name was 2nd Hospital of Shenzhen, Center for Integration of Chinese and Western Medicine.

Buzzword: Integration.  Possible?  Heck, it works for a lot of cancer patients in China…. then again not all.