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Posted on: Cold Will Kill You
October 30, 2007 at 8:13 AMYes, Chinese martial arts instructors/medical personal are a bit different too. The most striking difference is they won't put Ice or Cold on a swollen injury with the thinking that cooling it down will hamper the recovery.
Posted on: Buying a Custom-Built Computer
October 29, 2007 at 12:48 AMMay I officially vote this lesson as Super Duper Cool? Nice Lesson. Yummy... More please ;-)
Posted on: Massage and Renting an Apartment
October 28, 2007 at 1:02 AMTCM Term list: http://www.medtrans.net.cn/yych/shownews.asp?newsid=269
Posted on: Massage and Renting an Apartment
October 28, 2007 at 12:56 AMBy the way, my 50 year old American friend who is a doctor of Chinese medicine and practioner of NeiGong/Qigong has not been sick, not even a cold, for over 25 years and he has the energy of a 19 year old. All as a result of these practices.
Posted on: Massage and Renting an Apartment
October 28, 2007 at 12:49 AMIt's called "Cupping". Also stems from Chinese Medicine. Chinese medicine has very useful techniques to adjust the body and maintain one's health. Another technique which looks like the person has been beaten by their husband is called GuaSha. This is done by using a hard, flat object, sometimes a coin or a specialy made GuaSha tool out of Cow Horn or other material. The GuaSha tool is then scraped along the surface of the skin on the chest or back and around the neck. When finished it creates deep red marks that looks like her husband beat her terribly. However, the effect is good for releasing heat and making the individual feel much better. One TCM technique that I do often is to use Moxibustion on ZuSanLi (a point on the lower leg near the knee) which stimulates the digestion and metabolism. Extremely useful point. Chinese medicine and Energetic practices are very useful.
Posted on: Massage and Renting an Apartment
October 26, 2007 at 4:14 PMI would also mention that massages here are eastern based, and I would say most who are truely interested in the art would gravitate towards Chinese Medicine (Tui Na) techniques to be included in their massages. So, Tui Na is typically a deep tissue massage and not so much a surface, feel good massage. Most Chinese like the deep tissue techniques and if they don't get that from the practioner they will feel it's not a good massage. Same with Acupuncture. They like more stimulation with the needles where we in the west would prefer to let them be until the session is over.
Posted on: Massage and Renting an Apartment
October 26, 2007 at 4:09 PMI was in China in 1985 for a 16 day, martial art, whirl-wind tour and can say, of course, the differences are great. Just as Madeleine mentioned, we had crowds of people standing around us looking when we went out. We traveled by train, bus, plane, and taxi and what really impressed me most was the sweetness of the people, especially the girls/women. Unfortunately, with the country opening up, it seems that sweetness is starting to erode, especially with the children. Question, why do England based English speaking ppl say "When I went to University" without an article "a, an, the" where as we in the US will usually say, "When I went to the University" or "When I was in College", or something to that effect?
Posted on: Yang Jie's Diary: Date with a Nerd
October 17, 2007 at 11:50 PMHey Lantian, Thanks a bunch!!
Posted on: Yang Jie's Diary: Date with a Nerd
October 16, 2007 at 3:16 PMyep, daryik's request is fine with useful China dialogues or steams of consciousnesses...
Posted on: Cold Will Kill You
October 30, 2007 at 8:18 AMCooling slows.. So in that line of thought, cold drinks will slow the metabolism/digestion. But because in the West most are Big, hearty ppl so the effect is less noticeable.