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Huangdi Neijing黄帝内经：医史篇13-3仙风道骨下

Sun Simiao (traditional Chinese: 孫思邈; simplified Chinese: 孙思邈; pinyin: Sūn Sīmiǎo; Wade-Giles: Sun Szumiao, 581--682) was a famous traditional Chinese medicine doctor of the Sui and Tang dynasty. He was titled as China's King of Medicine (药王, Yaowang) for his significant contributions to Chinese medicine and tremendous care to his patients.Sun wrote two books - Beiji Qian Jin Yao Fang ("Essential Formulas for Emergencies [Worth] a Thousand Pieces of Gold") and Qian Jin Yi Fang ("Supplement to the Formulas of a Thousand Gold Worth") - that were both milestones in the history of Chinese medicine. He is also known for the text "On the Absolute Sincerity of Great Physicians," often called "the Chinese Hippocratic Oath," which is still required reading for Chinese physicians:A Great Physician should not pay attention to status, wealth or age; neither should he question whether the particular person is attractive or unattractive, whether he is an enemy or friend, whether he is a Chinese or a foreigner, or finally, whether he is uneducated or educated. He should meet everyone on equal grounds. He should always act as if he were thinking of his close relatives. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun_Simiao

Author: juanpingz
Keywords: China Chinese 中国 中國 中华 中華 history culture
Added: September 4, 2008

Huangdi Neijing黄帝内经：医史篇8-3千秋圣典上

Zhang Zhongjing (simplified Chinese: 张仲景; traditional Chinese: 張仲景; pinyin: Zhāng Zhōngjǐng; Wade-Giles: Chang Chung Ching), formal name Zhang Ji (simplified Chinese: 张机; traditional Chinese: 張機; pinyin: Zhāng Jī, 150 - 219), was an Eastern Han physician and one of the most eminent Chinese physicians during the later years of the Eastern Han. He established medication principles and summed up the medicinal experience up until that time, thus making a great contribution to the development of Traditional Chinese Medicine.BiographyThough extremely well known in modern Chinese medicine and considered one of the finest Chinese physicians in history very little is known of his life. According to later sources he was born in Nanyang, held an official position in Changsha and lived from approximately 150 to 219AD. Exact dates regarding his birth, death and works vary; an upper limit of 220AD is generally accepted.During his time, with warlords fighting for their own territories, many people were infected with febrile disease. Zhang's family was no exception. He learned medicine by studying from his townsfellow Zhang Bozu, assimilating from previous medicinal literature, and collecting many prescriptions elsewhere, finally writing the medical masterpiece Shanghan Zabing Lun' (traditional Chinese: 傷寒雜病論; pinyin: Shānghán Zábìng Lùn, lit. "Treatise on Cold Pathogenic and Miscellaneous Diseases"). Shortly after its publication the book was lost during wartime. Due to Zhang's contribution to Traditional Chinese medicine he is often regarded as the sage of Chinese medicine.Zhang's masterpiece, Shanghan Zabing Lun, was collected by later people and compiled into two books, namely the Shang Han Lun (傷寒論, lit. "On Cold Damage"), which was a discourse on how to treat epidemic infectious diseases causing fevers prevalent during his era, and the other, highly influential doctrine Jinkui Yaolue (金櫃要略, lit. "Essential Prescriptions of the Golden Coffer"), a compendium of his clinical experiences. These two texts have been heavily reconstructed several times up to the modern era. [4] Revered for authoring the Shāng Hán Zá Bìng Lùn, Zhang Zhongjing is considered to have founded the Cold Damage or "Cold Disease" school of Chinese medicine and is widely considered the seminal expert to this day.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zhang_ZhongjingShang Han Lun ((traditional Chinese: 傷寒論; pinyin: Shāng Hán Lùn), or Shang Han Za Bin Lun, is the treatasie on Cold Disease Damage by Zhang Zhongjing published in 220 A.D. by the Hippocrates of Traditional Chinese medicine. It is the oldest complete clinical textbook in world medical history, and one of the four most important canonical medical classics which students must study in Chinese medical education.Shang Han Lun has 397 sections with 112 herbal prescriptions. The discussion is based on the Six Divisions: The Six Divisions of the Shang Han Lun are:TAl YANG (greater yang): a milder stage with external symptoms of chills, fevers, stiffness, and headache. Therapy: sweatingYANG MING (yang brightness): a more severe internal excess yang condition with fever without chills, distended abdomen, and constipation. Therapy: cooling and eliminatingSHAO YANG (lesser yang): half outside, half inside half excess and half deficiency with chest discomfort, alternating chills, and fever. Therapy: harmonizingTAl YIN (greater yin): chills, distended abdomen with occasional pain. Therapy: warming with supplementing.SHAO YIN (lesser yin): weak pulse, anxiety, drowsiness, diarrhea, chills, cold extremities. Therapy: warming with supplementingJUE YIN (absolute yin): thirst, difficult urination, physical collapse. Therapy: warming with supplementing http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shang_Han_Lun

Author: juanpingz
Keywords: China Chinese 中国 中國 中华 中華 history culture
Added: September 4, 2008

Healing Cancer from Inside Out

Part 1, Curing Cancer, deals with the failings of conventional cancer treatments and shows how conventional medicine wildly - and deceptively - exaggerates the benefits of treatments, while minimizing the risks. It will provide you with the information you need to accurately assess the risks and benefits of any treatment and speak intelligently to your doctor about such treatments. There is also a section on the 'Cancer Industry' which explains the history behind cancer treatments, the suppression of alternative treatments and why chemotherapy, radiation and surgery are the only treatments available to mainstream medicine. Part 2, Healing Cancer, shows how cancer can be successfully healed with dietary treatments and natural supplementation. It explains common misconceptions about cancer, shows how diets designed to fight cancer are more successful than conventional treatments, discusses startling cancer research findings with T. Colin Campbell (The China Study) and has interviews with people who have reversed cancers using diet. It also discusses supplementation and why attitude is important in reversing not only cancer, but any disease.Participants include: T. Colin Campbell, Ph.D. (The China Study), Brian Clement, Ph.D. (Hippocrates Health Institute), Brenda Cobb (The Living Foods Institute), Mirea Ellis (The Kushi Institute), Charlotte Gerson (The Gerson Institute), Matt Lederman, M.D. (Transition to Health, Inc.), Thomas Lodi, M.D. (An Oasis of Healing), John A. McDougall, M.D. )Dr. McDougall's Health & Medical Center), and many more...http://www.ravediet.com/caDVD.htm

Author: BlueEagle8
Keywords: cancer healing prevention cure
Added: September 3, 2008

Why didn't Metafont catch on?

Full video: http://river-valley.tv/conferences/tug2008/#0203-Dave_Crossland"There are three kinds of people: Those that can count, and those that can't."METAFONT is an algebraic programming language for describing the shapes of letters, designed and implemented by Knuth as part of the original TeX typesetting system. It was one of the earliest digital type design systems, and is completely capable of dealing with the letters of any writing system, has always been freely available, and is remarkably powerful. Yet it never caught on with type designers.The idea of software freedom has not caught on with many type designers either. Although the free software movement has produced a massive amount of high quality programs, there are few fonts and fewer original type designs although there are some, with many available on CTAN.Psychologists since Jung have suggested that human personality can be classified into 'types.' In "Please Understand Me II" David Keirsey relates 20th century theories of personality to the four humours proposed by Hippocrates and personified by the Greek gods Dionysus, Apollo, Prometheus, and Epimethius.Do type designers tend to be of a certain humour? Is the inherently abstract METAFONT approach of describing shapes with algebra, or the rational appeal of software freedom, unintuitive for that temperament? Are people who do find free software and algebra intuitive involved in type design?This presentation introduces the discipline of type design, reviews some of the fonts currently distributed in CTAN and explains their various origins. It draws attention to how they have been developed: The stroke — based METAFONT approach, involving writing source code, is starkly different to the typical outline — based 'Fontographer' approach, where letter shapes are visually and interactively designed. It suggests the technical benefits and drawbacks of each approach, and why some people prefer one approach over another.Finally, it covers some tips and tricks for those contributing more free fonts to the TeX world, including some of the legal issues, where and how to source revivals, how to create new designs, and finally, how METAFONT might be modernised in a hybrid stroke/outline system to suit every personality.Dave Crossland is an international public speaker on software freedom and fonts, runs a small business doing type design, information design and free software consultancy projects, and is a member of the UKTUG Committee. He is currently undertaking the MA Typeface Design programme at the University of Reading's Department of Typography.--Dave CrosslandUniversity of Reading, UK

Author: rivervalleytv
Keywords: TeX LaTeX fonts TUG2008 cork OpenType UKTUG Metafont
Added: September 2, 2008

Why didn't Metafont catch on?

Full video: http://river-valley.tv/conferences/tug2008/#0203-Dave_Crossland"There are three kinds of people: Those that can count, and those that can't."METAFONT is an algebraic programming language for describing the shapes of letters, designed and implemented by Knuth as part of the original TeX typesetting system. It was one of the earliest digital type design systems, and is completely capable of dealing with the letters of any writing system, has always been freely available, and is remarkably powerful. Yet it never caught on with type designers.The idea of software freedom has not caught on with many type designers either. Although the free software movement has produced a massive amount of high quality programs, there are few fonts and fewer original type designs although there are some, with many available on CTAN.Psychologists since Jung have suggested that human personality can be classified into 'types.' In "Please Understand Me II" David Keirsey relates 20th century theories of personality to the four humours proposed by Hippocrates and personified by the Greek gods Dionysus, Apollo, Prometheus, and Epimethius.Do type designers tend to be of a certain humour? Is the inherently abstract METAFONT approach of describing shapes with algebra, or the rational appeal of software freedom, unintuitive for that temperament? Are people who do find free software and algebra intuitive involved in type design?This presentation introduces the discipline of type design, reviews some of the fonts currently distributed in CTAN and explains their various origins. It draws attention to how they have been developed: The stroke — based METAFONT approach, involving writing source code, is starkly different to the typical outline — based 'Fontographer' approach, where letter shapes are visually and interactively designed. It suggests the technical benefits and drawbacks of each approach, and why some people prefer one approach over another.Finally, it covers some tips and tricks for those contributing more free fonts to the TeX world, including some of the legal issues, where and how to source revivals, how to create new designs, and finally, how METAFONT might be modernised in a hybrid stroke/outline system to suit every personality.Dave Crossland is an international public speaker on software freedom and fonts, runs a small business doing type design, information design and free software consultancy projects, and is a member of the UKTUG Committee. He is currently undertaking the MA Typeface Design programme at the University of Reading's Department of Typography.--Dave CrosslandUniversity of Reading, UK

Author: rivervalleytv
Keywords: TeX LaTeX fonts TUG2008 cork OpenType UKTUG Metafont
Added: September 2, 2008

Why didn't Metafont catch on?

Full video: http://river-valley.tv/conferences/tug2008/#0203-Dave_Crossland"There are three kinds of people: Those that can count, and those that can't."METAFONT is an algebraic programming language for describing the shapes of letters, designed and implemented by Knuth as part of the original TeX typesetting system. It was one of the earliest digital type design systems, and is completely capable of dealing with the letters of any writing system, has always been freely available, and is remarkably powerful. Yet it never caught on with type designers.The idea of software freedom has not caught on with many type designers either. Although the free software movement has produced a massive amount of high quality programs, there are few fonts and fewer original type designs although there are some, with many available on CTAN.Psychologists since Jung have suggested that human personality can be classified into 'types.' In "Please Understand Me II" David Keirsey relates 20th century theories of personality to the four humours proposed by Hippocrates and personified by the Greek gods Dionysus, Apollo, Prometheus, and Epimethius.Do type designers tend to be of a certain humour? Is the inherently abstract METAFONT approach of describing shapes with algebra, or the rational appeal of software freedom, unintuitive for that temperament? Are people who do find free software and algebra intuitive involved in type design?This presentation introduces the discipline of type design, reviews some of the fonts currently distributed in CTAN and explains their various origins. It draws attention to how they have been developed: The stroke — based METAFONT approach, involving writing source code, is starkly different to the typical outline — based 'Fontographer' approach, where letter shapes are visually and interactively designed. It suggests the technical benefits and drawbacks of each approach, and why some people prefer one approach over another.Finally, it covers some tips and tricks for those contributing more free fonts to the TeX world, including some of the legal issues, where and how to source revivals, how to create new designs, and finally, how METAFONT might be modernised in a hybrid stroke/outline system to suit every personality.Dave Crossland is an international public speaker on software freedom and fonts, runs a small business doing type design, information design and free software consultancy projects, and is a member of the UKTUG Committee. He is currently undertaking the MA Typeface Design programme at the University of Reading's Department of Typography.--Dave CrosslandUniversity of Reading, UK

Author: rivervalleytv
Keywords: TeX LaTeX fonts TUG2008 cork OpenType UKTUG Metafont
Added: September 2, 2008

Why didn't Metafont catch on?

Full video: http://river-valley.tv/conferences/tug2008/#0203-Dave_Crossland"There are three kinds of people: Those that can count, and those that can't."METAFONT is an algebraic programming language for describing the shapes of letters, designed and implemented by Knuth as part of the original TeX typesetting system. It was one of the earliest digital type design systems, and is completely capable of dealing with the letters of any writing system, has always been freely available, and is remarkably powerful. Yet it never caught on with type designers.The idea of software freedom has not caught on with many type designers either. Although the free software movement has produced a massive amount of high quality programs, there are few fonts and fewer original type designs although there are some, with many available on CTAN.Psychologists since Jung have suggested that human personality can be classified into 'types.' In "Please Understand Me II" David Keirsey relates 20th century theories of personality to the four humours proposed by Hippocrates and personified by the Greek gods Dionysus, Apollo, Prometheus, and Epimethius.Do type designers tend to be of a certain humour? Is the inherently abstract METAFONT approach of describing shapes with algebra, or the rational appeal of software freedom, unintuitive for that temperament? Are people who do find free software and algebra intuitive involved in type design?This presentation introduces the discipline of type design, reviews some of the fonts currently distributed in CTAN and explains their various origins. It draws attention to how they have been developed: The stroke — based METAFONT approach, involving writing source code, is starkly different to the typical outline — based 'Fontographer' approach, where letter shapes are visually and interactively designed. It suggests the technical benefits and drawbacks of each approach, and why some people prefer one approach over another.Finally, it covers some tips and tricks for those contributing more free fonts to the TeX world, including some of the legal issues, where and how to source revivals, how to create new designs, and finally, how METAFONT might be modernised in a hybrid stroke/outline system to suit every personality.Dave Crossland is an international public speaker on software freedom and fonts, runs a small business doing type design, information design and free software consultancy projects, and is a member of the UKTUG Committee. He is currently undertaking the MA Typeface Design programme at the University of Reading's Department of Typography.--Dave CrosslandUniversity of Reading, UK

Author: rivervalleytv
Keywords: TeX LaTeX fonts TUG2008 cork OpenType UKTUG Metafont
Added: September 2, 2008

Biography of Hippocrates
Hippocrates is referred to ‘father of medicine’ in recognition of his lasting contributions to the field as the founder of the Hippocratic school of medicine.
http://digg.com/arts_culture/Biography_of_Hippocrates

Movie: Food Matters -- But Can it Cure Cancer?
“Let thy Food be thy Medicine and thy Medicine be thy Food” — Hippocrates. That is the message from the founding father of modern medicine echoed in the controversial new documentary film Food Matters from Producer-Directors James Colquhoun and Laurentine ten Bosch.
http://digg.com/health/Movie_Food_Matters_But_Can_it_Cure_Cancer

Male Impotence Myths
Hippocrates, the father of medicine, said: “There are in fact two things, science and opinion; the former begets knowledge, the latter ignorance”. Those words still ring true today. Many of the myths and legends about impotence, borne out of ignorance thousands of years ago, still influence our sexual culture. Primitive cultures believed that..
http://digg.com/health/Male_Impotence_Myths

Spike Lee Accused of Having Anti-Italian Tendencies
A leading Italian-American group is accusing Spike Lee of having anti-Italian tendencies amid the flap between the director and Clint Eastwood over a lack of African-Americans in Eastwood's war films. Maybe Spike Lee needs to remember something about he who lives in glass houses not throwing stones!. Can we say Hippocrate!
http://digg.com/celebrity/Spike_Lee_Accused_of_Having_Anti_Italian_Tendencies

The Practice of Bloodletting (+pics)
The practice of bloodletting, or phlebotomy, dates back to antiquity. The followers of Hippocrates in the fifth century B.C. strongly believed in bleeding patients, and it is likely that this was done in Egyptian times and probably even before that.
http://digg.com/odd_stuff/The_Practice_of_Bloodletting_pics

Benefits of Professional Therapeutic Massage
Everyone feels great after a well done therapeutic massage. Massage has been documented back to 2700 BC and found in many ancient cultures. For example, it is documented that the Chinese, Egyptians, Indians, Greeks, and Romans all benefited from therapeutic massage. In fact, Hippocrates wrote of the benefits of massage in the 5th century BC..
http://digg.com/health/Benefits_of_Professional_Therapeutic_Massage

Hippocrates encouraged use of flaxseed
In addition to the culinary uses for Flax it also has great health benefits. Flaxseed excavated from ancient Greek archeological sites has been dated back to 1900 to 1700 B.C., and the use of flaxseed is inscribed on tables at Pylos. Both the Greek historian Thucydides and the Roman Pliny mention the use of flax for food. In fact, so impressed with
http://digg.com/food_drink/Hippocrates_encouraged_use_of_flaxseed

What Are Functional Foods?
Functional food is a unique term that refers to foods with health promoting qualities, following the well-revered Hippocrates ancient advice to let food be your medicine.
http://digg.com/health/What_Are_Functional_Foods

Schouder 'resetten' een alternatief voor Koch en Hippocrate
Doe het zelf schouder in de kom trekken... De Milch is een niet standaard therapie voor schouder reductie maar in de praktijk is het aanteraden als standaard therapie als Hippocrates en Kocher niet werken. Dus om een alternatief achter de hand te hebben lees er over in dit artikel.
http://digg.com/health/Schouder_resetten_een_alternatief_voor_Koch_en_Hippocrate

Apple Cider Vinegar—Hippocrates Was onto Something with this
Learn the health benefits of apple cider vinegar or acetic acid. Used for centuries, apple cider vinegar contains potassium, sodium, magnesium, calcium, phosphorous, sulfur, iron an fluoride. Use apple cider vinegar for clearing acne, lowering blood pressure, eliminating foot odor, lowering glucose levels, relieving nausea, weight loss and more.
http://digg.com/health/Apple_Cider_VinegarmHippocrates_Was_onto_Something_with_this