“The travel season in China usually begins 15 days before New Year’s Day and lasts for around 40 days. In 2016 it was predicted that there would be 2.9 billion passenger journeys during that year’s Chunyun season. It has been called the largest annual human migration in the world.” – wiki
Engaging With Change and Practice
“The ups and downs of life remind us that life is unpredictable and full of challenges. We never know what is around the next corner, and often enough, it isn’t good. We are constantly caught off guard by our hopes and expectations, and that is why we engage spiritual practice, to find a way to live without hope or expectation. Does that sound bleak? Perhaps, but if you think about it, there is something wonderful there, a kind of freedom that opens up all kinds of possibilities.
Stay Strong, Happy and Healthy: The Oriental Medicine Way
We were stocking up on antivirus Chinese medicinal herb formulas when we got to talking with our supplier about how the antivirus medicinal herbs currently being prescribed by Oriental medicine practitioners to prevent the onset of Covid, or mitigate its symptoms, got formulated and distributed to people around China so quickly. He’s an expert in Chinese medicine pharmacopeia, authoring and translating several tomes on the use and effects of Chinese medicinal herbs; essentially encyclopedias which are widely used by institutes of Oriental Medicine to teach their students, and in the day to day clinic work of practitioners. So we knew he would have something interesting and informative to say.
