We've been gradually developing a small library of Blue Poppy videos on YouTube. Our "channel" can be found at www.youtube.com/bluepoppytcm. So far we have about two dozen videos online, and we plan to put new videos up regularly. I recently did two… more »

By Eric Brand Several varieties of Ju Hua exist on the market. All of the products are the same botanical species but they can be broadly divided based on the color of the flower and the growing region. The following types of Ju Hua can be differen… more »

by Honora Lee Wolfe On Saturday last, Mindful Medicine Worldwide sponsored a one day acupuncture workshop, with Bob as the teacher and held here in Boudha at the White Monastery in one of the classrooms for students here to learn Buddhist philosophy… more »

By Eric Brand A few days ago I had the pleasure of doing a brief guest lecture at the Academy of Oriental Medicine at Austin (AOMA). I had taken a mini-tour of AOMA once in the past while attending the Southwest Symposium, but this was the first tim… more »

Cilantro, also known as coriander, is an aromatic herb that is regarded as an exterior-resolving agent in Chinese medicine. Other culinary herbs also resolve the exterior, such as basil, scallions, ginger, and mint. Below is a summary of the TCM actio… more »

by Honora Wolfe Nepal is filled with religious sites and shrines for both Tibetan Buddhists as well as Hindus. Today our sponsor from Mindful Medicine Worldwide, Grainne McKeown, arrived from the US with bags of clinic supplies and went with us up to… more »

by Honora Wolfe So YouTube is now the second largest website and search engine in the world. Yep…the second largest. Owned by Google which is the first largest! What does this mean? According to Nielsen (the people who do polls and ratings for all… more »

By Eric Brand I recently had the pleasure of giving a lecture on granules in Paris that was organized by the well-known French author Philippe Sionneau. I was very impressed with the environment and the audience, and it was an honor to work with Phi… more »

By Eric Brand Recently I did a blog on different cuts of herbs. I love herbal pharmacy and quality discernment, and Hou Po (magnolia bark) is an herb that is incredibly complex in terms of its traditional differentiation. The trunk bark, root bark,… more »

by Honora Wolfe After one week in Nepal, Bob and I are beginning to get a picture of life here, the functioning of the clinic where we are working, what the problems are for clinics such as this one here in Boudha, and what life is like for the peopl… more »

By Brendan Mattson The list below is a continuation of Eric's previous blog on Yao Yao, or "essential medicinals." The items below were all translated from this Chinese source, which serves as a nice complement to our other blog on "yao yao." Items… more »

By Eric Brand Check out this interesting link to the World Health Organization's strategy for Traditional Medicine. The document has some fascinating stats on the global development of herbal medicine regulations, research funding, and legal status… more »

by Honora Wolfe Nepal is a very long way from home, both in physical and cultural distance, as our first day of treating patients clearly illustrated. On Fridays, our regular treatment room at the SheChen Clinic in Boudha (the suburb of Kathmandu whe… more »

by Malia Kirby Emma (not her real name) has been a friend to my father's side of the family for as long as I can remember. She's your typical feisty Southern belle: she had her hair and nails done in the salon two to three times per week, she's eter… more »

by Honora Wolfe Most medium-to-large companies have some presence in the social media world. Among the Fortune 100 (largest international corporations), for example, 65% use Twitter, 54% use Facebook, 50% use YouTube, 33% have a blog. Fundamental… more »

by Malia Kirby We're coming up on that season again, where the ancient Celts carried the original jack-o-lantern carved from turnips to frighten away malevolent spirits, preparations began for winter by taking stock of food and supplies, and masks a… more »

by Shawn Kirby L.Ac. Arguably the greatest acupuncturist in Japanese history, Waichi Sugiyama has probably had more of an impact on the modern practice of acupuncture than any other acupuncturist in the history of our art. Waichi Sugiyama… more »

Many of us have built a personal Facebook page. Maybe we have looked at Twitter or started to collect colleagues on LinkedIn… but how to do something actually useful for your business in the world of Social Media Marketing (SMM)? You could build a busin… more »