Archive for 'Mind-Body Medicine'
Taiji: Mind-Body Medicine At It’s Best!
Posted on 01. Dec, 2009 by Kerry D Friesen, M.D..
The Essence Of Taiji: Integrating Heaven And Earth
Taiji (pronounced”tie-jee”) is an ancient healing/martial-art form that originated in China, thousands of years ago.
The Chinese conceived of taiji as a way to bring heaven and earth closer together, to resolve the great “opposites” of life—light/dark, yielding/resisting, relaxing/contracting and—to integrate mind and body.
The Yin And Yang Of [...]
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Green Tea: Several Cups A Day Keeps Depression Away
Posted on 21. Oct, 2009 by Kerry D Friesen, M.D..
Depression can be difficult to treat.
Even with the most effective medications, a sixty percent response rate is considered exceptional. Worse yet for most people, continued treatment revolves around minimizing side-effects rather than aggressively addressing the circumstances that allowed the depression to develop in the first place.
Even more confusing are recent clinical studies that suggest [...]
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Why I Quit Counting Cholesterol: Confessions Of A Medical Heretic
Posted on 24. Jan, 2009 by Kerry D Friesen, M.D..
The great tragedy of science — the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact.
–Thomas Henry Huxley
At one time or another we have all held certain beliefs that later turn out to be not true at all. Most are innocent lies like the tooth fairy or Easter bunny and ultimately no major mental paradigm [...]
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