Clinical mulch
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Clinical mulch
@clinicalmulch.bsky.social
I write a Substack on acupuncture and Chinese medicine for advanced students and practitioners.
https://clinicalmulch.substack.com/
Seeing this with some acupuncturists too
“It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.” - Upton Sinclair

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How Chiropractors Became the Backbone of MAHA
Why they love Robert F. Kennedy Jr. — and he loves them.
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December 9, 2025 at 12:18 PM
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December 5, 2025 at 11:16 PM
According to my Youtube 2025 recap, this was the track I played most this year.
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So I Got To Groove
YouTube video by Tower Of Power - Topic
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December 3, 2025 at 5:12 PM
I mulched the commentary on the Four Seas in Zhēn Jiǔ Féng Yuán (針灸逢源, Encountering the Origins of Acumoxa) by Lǐ Xuéchuān, 1815, and present it here with some notes of my own.

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Ancestors of the Hundred Rivers
On the Four Seas
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November 29, 2025 at 9:33 PM
About this time a couple of years ago, I published what turned out to be one of my more popular posts in terms of views. Still not sure why, lol. I’m seeing a lot of respiratory stuff lately, as one would figure in metal season, so it’s good to revisit.

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Rectifying Counterflow in Metal Season
On Treating Cough
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November 19, 2025 at 11:24 PM
Good piece on how GenAI reinforces colonialist hierarchies and accelerates the loss of traditional and indigenous knowledge.
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What AI doesn’t know: we could be creating a global ‘knowledge collapse’ | Deepak Varuvel Dennison
The long read: As GenAI becomes the primary way to find information, local and traditional wisdom is being lost. And we are only beginning to realise what we’re missing
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November 18, 2025 at 3:01 PM
"The results paint a picture of fibromyalgia as a brain-based disorder characterised by dysregulated neural communication rather than inflammation or peripheral tissue damage."

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Fibromyalgia finally gets a genetic fingerprint - Medical Republic
A massive global study links the chronic pain condition to 26 genes associated with brain signalling, marking a turning point in understanding its biological roots.
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November 15, 2025 at 8:48 PM
“The storm hit rural Jamaica hardest – people who are poorest, least protected, and historically marginalised. The same communities shaped by slavery, colonial extraction, and racialised policies are now on the frontline of climate disaster."

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Hurricane Melissa a ‘real-time case study’ of colonialism’s legacies
Destruction in Jamaica shows why climate justice cannot be separated from reparatory justice, campaigners say
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November 15, 2025 at 12:15 PM
My family easily spent $250 a week at Publix. Now we go elsewhere.
In Opinion, the lawyer representing a grandmother and a toddler shot to death in a Publix writes about the chain allowing guns in its stores: "That wasn’t corporate neutrality — it was a decision. A decision that instantly transformed grocery shopping from a routine errand into a risk calculation."
‘Publix Carry’ isn’t safety policy — it’s a liability countdown | Opinion
A lawyer representing a family whose loved ones were killed in a shooting inside a Royal Palm Beach Publix writes that the supermarket’s open-carry policy will only make matters worse.
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November 11, 2025 at 9:47 PM
A couple of years ago around this time, I wrote about Fructus Amomi Villosi, better known to us as shārén, and questions of its channel entry.
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Qì Cannot Return to the Source
On Shā Rén
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November 9, 2025 at 9:47 PM
Happy Hallowe'en! Here is some mulch from a couple years back, on the #ghostherbs series and the ghost-ridden lore of the peach tree, including its seed, táorén, and its flower, táohuā.

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The Essence of Five Woods
Ghost Herbs 5
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October 31, 2025 at 12:17 PM
"We don't like feeling shame. We want to avoid it. It's very uncomfortable," ... And if the source of shame is from the clinician, the patient may ask, "'Why would I go back?' In some cases, that patient may generalize that to the whole health care system."
October 29, 2025 at 12:02 PM
RIP JDJ. Saw his band on a double bill with Dave Holland's quintet 40 years ago, so great. Spent many hours listening to recordings featuring his powerful, technically flawless and endlessly inventive drumming. Thanks for all the amazing music, maestro.
www.theguardian.com/music/2025/o...
Jack DeJohnette, versatile jazz drummer known for Miles Davis fusion recordings, dies aged 83
Drummer played on Bitches Brew and other landmark recordings, as well as making numerous albums as a bandleader
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October 27, 2025 at 10:59 PM
The treatment of pain with Chinese herbs has been an ongoing theme in our publication. In that vein, I’ve been doing some research on wēilíngxiān [Radix Clematidis, Clematis root]. Here are a few perspectives on the herb from the mid- to late-imperial eras.
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Mighty Spiritual Immortal
On Wēilíngxiān
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October 5, 2025 at 12:43 AM
“This tendency to fantasize — when times change and things aren’t what they were — that the poorest and most vulnerable are actually some sort of malicious freeloading class is a very old one”
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The deceptive phrase behind Trump's Medicaid purge
How the idea of “able-bodied” is abused
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October 1, 2025 at 2:31 PM
High and dry, out of the rain
It's so easy to hurt others when you can't feel pain

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Daryl Hall & John Oates - Rich Girl (Official Audio)
YouTube video by hallandoatesVEVO
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September 26, 2025 at 1:40 PM
My article for the latest issue of The Register of Chinese Herbal Medicine Journal is now up on Academia.The preview on the website looks off but it seems as if the PDF download button will produce a proper copy.

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THE RETREAT OF ESSENCE
Fear and anxiety are on the rise. With an estimated prevalence of 4% of the global population and an increase of as much as 25% after the pandemic, anxiety disorders are bound to present in the clinic...
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September 16, 2025 at 10:30 PM
On this day 2 years ago, I posted a piece about Bàn Xià Bái Zhú Tiān Má Tāng (Pinellia, Atractylodes Macrocephalae, and Gastrodia Decoction), with one of my formula infographics.

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Transform Phlegm and Dispel Wind
On Bàn Xià Bái Zhú Tiān Má Tāng
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September 13, 2025 at 7:40 PM
Hey, can anyone help me identify this mushroom? I found it in my yard while weed-whacking. Growing on a fallen palm trunk in a shady area. Southeast Florida, just north of Miami. Thanks in advance.
#mushrooms #mycology
September 2, 2025 at 2:02 PM
My son's latest dub
WHISPER VS. MIMIC (PART 1)
(IDW Comics Fandub)

identity theft is not a joke jim. millions suffer every year.

(ft. @blumoonva.bsky.social and Lilac Dreams)

#sonicthehedgehog #whisperthewolf #comicdub
August 30, 2025 at 5:52 PM
Hidden Spirit
On Poria
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August 28, 2025 at 6:45 PM
Laser-emitting peacocks are the kind of thing I needed to see this morning. Thanks, Wired!
August 2, 2025 at 1:38 PM