Scarring Moxibustion Result

Pointing to scar on back

Raised white area near finger-marked by red outline.

Caught up with a friend, who studies TCM at another university, to go swimming at a pool in Bondi and we went over some Chinese Medicine too. Found out in his first year he had a class on burning moxibustion. The result is a raised white skin burn on his right side (on Bladder 23-the Kidney Shu point). It's a shame he goes to another uni as he would be a good subject for my continuing point location exams- as the points are marked out on him permanently. The scar is 3 years old and at the time another student placed the moxa on him and walked away out of ear shot. Because my friend had other needles in place he couldn't move to take the moxa off himself. He's also done hot needle technique. Both of these subjects are not covered practically at UTS because of possible burns I guess.

Here's some info about UTS TCM

Hi Blogs,
Sorry about the delay between updates! When you're on holiday the last thing you want to think about is work! So have I been on Chinese Medicine holiday. However we should get our results from last semester soon. The thing I always found funny about UTS is that you have to re-enrole for next year before you get your results. Counter intuitive in my opinion, but supremely positive! Good luck everyone :)

Chinese Traditional Medicine Collaboration Forum, Sydney

This event came to Sydney over the weekend. I think it was a trade based Chinese Government effort. There was a day of lectures in the forum and some trade stalls of Chinese medicine: lozenges mostly! It was interesting to take in some of the info and it was good to see some familiar faces. Apparently this is the first one of its kind and shows a more deepening interest in Chinese medicine in Australia. It was a good effort I thought with maybe 50 people turning up. Some social phenomena that happened: 6 or 10 people taking in your face pics of lecturers then of the audience, people snoring loudly, triple headed sparkly purple flowers on lecturers lapels, running translation of Chinese after English and no one manning trade stalls. Also a Tibetan monk turned up, see pics, which I thought was very nice.

Health Science Exam looming

This is an inch of paper I have to know for an upcoming exam in a few days. Its a real pain in the ass to have a two week break then your final exam! The motivation has stopped. The good thing is without a million other subjects to go over you can actually focus and the huge pressure of other deadlines aren't there! Either way you got to do it. O crap looks like beach weather too!

Around the corner from UTS in China Town

Found out the other day that one of my fellow colleagues has deep associations with China town. Another colleague and myself decided to head to China town for lunch when we bumped into Fiona. I knew her parents had a restaurant on Dixon Street (the guts of China town in Sydney) and she invited us into the Tea House they also owned next door. Thanks for the Chrysanthemum tea. Here I learnt that the tea house was one of the oldest buildings in China town, over 150 years, and that her family had been working at the same place for generations. It was a nice experience to sip Chrysanthemum tea in such a authentic place and hear of this history. Cheers Fiona!

PS. Exams almost done for this semester. We just had one on Saturday! and now we have a two week space until the next...