All we need is love… love… love…
Personal, Love Sabine Wilms, PhD Personal, Love Sabine Wilms, PhD

All we need is love… love… love…

I woke up on this first morning of the New Year a bit later than usual with John Lennon's song in my head, and it's been with me every since:

Love, love, love! Love, love, love! Love, love, love!

All you need is love! All you need is love!

All you need is love, love! Love is all you need!

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Help Kids Be Who They Are
Guest Blog, Love, Philosophy Sabine Wilms, PhD Guest Blog, Love, Philosophy Sabine Wilms, PhD

Help Kids Be Who They Are

Guest blog by Lillian Pearl Bridges (www.lotusinstitute.com): As a mother, I wanted the best for my two sons and still do, even though they are now adults. I too read all the parenting books to look for the best advice on how to be a good parent. And of course the first person I turned to was my mother. I was raised in a Chinese family, but luckily I didn’t have a Tiger Mother, with incredibly high standards for education. I had the Dragon Mother instead!

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Fertility and Gynecology: Biomedicine, Chinese Medicine and Common Sense
Discussion, Pediatrics, Gynecology Sabine Wilms, PhD Discussion, Pediatrics, Gynecology Sabine Wilms, PhD

Fertility and Gynecology: Biomedicine, Chinese Medicine and Common Sense

Let me start by quoting the obvious (from Sun Simiao’s Bei Ji Qian Jin Yao Fang, vol. 5 on Pediatrics:

故今斯方,先婦人、小兒,而後丈夫、耆老者,則是崇本之義也。

“Now the present collection of treatments is arranged by placing the treatments for women and children first, and those for husbands and the elderly afterwards. The significance of [this structure] is that it venerates the root.”

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Measurements in the Classics
Sabine Wilms, PhD Sabine Wilms, PhD

Measurements in the Classics

An enthusiastic student of Zhang Zhongjing's formulas just asked me once again about the precise meaning of 兩 (liang), the basic unit of measurement. So I dug around yet again and yet again return to what continues to be my answer to this question:

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