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You Are More Than Your Physical Body: The Three Bodies of Healing
Healing and curing are not always the same thing. Drawing on more than four decades of clinical experience, Dr. Wu Dhi explores the Three Bodies of Healing: the physical body, the energy body, and the spiritual body. Through the story of a patient living with severe scoliosis and chronic pain, he explains how acupuncture, Medical Qigong, visualization, and whole-person care may support comfort, emotional well-being, and a renewed sense of purpose. Even when physical limitations cannot be completely reversed, there may still be opportunities for connection, personal growth, inner peace, and meaningful healing.
Do You Bruise Easily?
Do you bruise easily or sometimes notice bruises without remembering how they happened? Dr. Wu Dhi explores common reasons for bruising, including aging skin, medications, circulation, nutrition, and activity level, while also sharing the Traditional Chinese Medicine perspective on the Spleen, Liver, Heart, and Blood. The article also looks at the connection between bruising, tired or heavy legs, spider veins, and varicose veins. Most bruises are harmless, but sudden or unexplained changes deserve attention. Sometimes a small bruise can become an important reminder to look at the larger picture of your health.
Yin, Yang and Beyond: The Ancient Understanding of Balance, Health and Change
Almost everyone recognizes the Yin-Yang symbol, yet relatively few people understand the depth of what it represents.
The familiar circle contains two intertwined forms: one dark and one light. Within the dark Yin portion is a small circle of white Yang, and within the white Yang portion is a small circle of dark Yin.
This seemingly simple image contains one of the foundational ideas of Chinese philosophy and Traditional Chinese Medicine.
Yin and Yang are not enemies.
They are complementary forces that define one another, depend upon one another, and continually transform into one another.
A Curious Observation During Bloodletting: What Can Differences in Blood Appearance Tell Us?
One of the greatest gifts of practicing medicine for more than four decades is realizing that every patient has something new to teach us. No matter how many years of experience we accumulate, the human body continues to surprise us.
Recently, I was treating a patient suffering from chronic lower back pain and persistent muscle cramping. After completing my evaluation, I decided to incorporate therapeutic bloodletting as part of her treatment.
What happened next immediately caught my attention.