by ICOM_admin | Feb 10, 2020 | News
As with previous visits to Myanmar, we have learned to expect the unexpected… Straight after our long flight we were treated to a surprise from our hosts – a four hour road trip to Bagan, a UNESCO heritage site where thousands of pagodas were built in the...
by ICOM_admin | Jan 24, 2020 | News
January 25, 2020 is the start of the Chinese Year of the White Rat (or Mouse). The Rat is the first of the animals in the Chinese Zodiac and so it is the beginning of a new 12-year and 60-year cycle and is thus the beginning of a new era. 2020 being the start of a new...
by ICOM_admin | Oct 28, 2019 | News
This post originally appeared on Asian Medicine Zone website and has been reproduced with permission. The original post can be accessed at http://www.asianmedicinezone.com/chinese-east-asian/why-study-chinese-medicine/ As a scholar more than a practitioner, my...
by ICOM_admin | Jul 19, 2019 | News
In Chinese mythology, Chang’e (嫦娥) is the Moon Goddess. The ancient story goes that long ago, the earth had been scorched by ten suns that had appeared in the skies and the people on Earth were suffering as a result. Chang’e’s husband Yi, an archer,...
by ICOM_admin | Jul 15, 2019 | News
After spending the summer working in ICOM’s clinic, I went to work in the spa of a cruise ship that was in the Caribbean. That experience was very intense in many ways. First, as an acupuncturist, the fact of having to explain to passengers how they might benefit from...
by ICOM_admin | Feb 19, 2019 | Life at ICOM, News, Notice Board, Practitioners, Students area
The Yellow Emperor asked the heavenly teacher: “I have heard that people in ancient times had lived as long as one hundred and twenty years with no sign of weakening in movement, but people nowadays become weakened in their movements in the age of less than...
