Word: acupuncturists
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...naps between appearances, disdains pressing the flesh and finds the business of vote getting "unbearable." But when the normally taciturn Yitzhak Shamir mounts a campaign podium, he plays the crowd's emotions with the precision of an acupuncturist. "I heard about the problems that you are struggling with every day, the stones and the Molotov cocktails," he shouts at 800 Likud loyalists gathered in a shopping mall on the northern outskirts of Jerusalem. As his lips produce the sound, his fists become the fury, chopping the air and pounding the lectern. "Those who are trying to throw...
Unfortunately, my condition is chronic and will take a long series of treatments to recover fully. According to my acupuncturist, who has just returned from four years of study in China, the diagnosis is simple: my qi (pronounced key) was severely imbalanced. To regain health, he must restore me to an even...
Western medicine bases diagnoses on specific symptoms, but traditional acupuncture determines treatment by reading your qi, or energy flow. To test a patient's qi, an acupuncturist examines a patient's skin color (coffee drinkers are distinguishable from non-coffee drinkers), listens to his voice, samples his odor (diabetics smell sweeter than non-diabetics), and most important, the patient's pulse...
...Acupuncturists regulate the meridiens and thus the qi in two broad ways. Both too little or too much qi can cause problems. If the patient has too much qi in one meridien, the acupuncturist disperses it by pricking quickly and then putting pressure on the aperture. Too little qi is "tonified" by allowing a needle to sit longer...
...Valparaiso for $9.50, the 2,780-mile jog from Montreal to Vancouver for $35. Great stuff for train buffs, the book gives departure and arrival times for more than 9,000 rail trips worldwide, with specifics about en route scenery and service (on the Peking-Shanghai run an acupuncturist is available), as well as advice on tour planning. Authors Marvin L. Saltzman and Kathryn Saltzman Muileman even log the World's Longest Train Ride, an 8,000-mile odyssey from Lisbon across Siberia to Khabarovsk that officially takes 218 hours and on the Saltzman and Muileman trip was only...