Anyone who knows something about Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) or Chinese internal martial arts (e.g., Taijiquan, which is the most well-known Chinese internal martial art) would invariably have heard of the word Qigong (or loosely speaking, the cultivation or manipulation of air or life force through work or exercise). TCM is based on the theory […]
Archive for April 2009
One of the World’s Best Geriatric Centers
April 2009
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A surprise awaited me when recently I and others were given a tour of the Yee Hong Centre for Geriatric Care (YHC) while attending a conference in Toronto, Canada. Completely unexpected, I was actually touring one of the world’s best geriatric centers, and witnessing an example of the power of one. The life expectancy of […]
Japan’s Biological and Chemical Warfare in China during WWII
Rotten Leg Villages Even today in just one small village of Caojie, near Jinhua in the province of Zhejiang in China, there are hundreds of victims of biological warfare still suffering from painful wounds originated more than 60 years ago when their village was decimated in 1942 by Japan with glanders, anthrax, and other biological […]