Subject: ADMIN: Quiet times...

From: [email-masked]
Date: Wed, 8 Mar 95 08:46:32 PST

Hello folks!

First, I'd like to welcome students and faculty of the New
England School of Acupuncture to the OrMed family! Several 
of you have joined recently, and more have expressed interest.

Second, there are some new World Wide Web pages of interest
to Oriental medicine and natural medicine in general. I'll 
be adding links to them from the OrMed WWW page in the next
few days, and posting something about them to the list a bit
later. There also is a new expanded FAQ (including a list of
schools), and two new electronic publications going into the 
FTP site and WWW page. Again, these will be ready in a few 
days.

On to the point at hand...

We've recently been going through some quiet times here at OrMed.
It's been nearly a month since the last post was received, yet we
have over 200 members. Has some catastophe befallen the members
of OrMed? Is it the dreaded OrMed mummy's curse?

In any case, a number of you have written me asking if you are
still on the list, or if something has happened to the list. The
answer is yes: you are writing to me instead of the list.

The OrMed list is an information resource that can bring you many
interesting discussions and other tidbits about Oriental medicine,
but this only works if you participate. There is no external input
to the list, it all comes from the 212 (and growing) OrMed members.

With that many members, I find it hard to imagine that at least 
some of you don't have a question, concern, story, or other 
contribution about Oriental medicine. Don't be shy, speak up!

If some of you have particular concerns about the list, which
are making you less likely to post, and you would like to
discuss them privately, always feel free to drop me an email 
at [email-masked]. 

So dust off the keyboard, and write poetry to an herb. Construct
a sonnet to needles. Tell your best/worse experience with an
acupuncturist. Ask an obscure question about a point that isn't
in the books. 

I need your help to get things back on track.

Thanks!

Norm.

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From: [email-masked] (Peter Gigante)
Date: Thu, 09 Mar 1995 23:03:36 -0500

>of you have joined recently, and more have expressed interest.

Welcome!

>answer is yes: you are writing to me instead of the list.

Hi!

I'm from Australia, am a shiatsu therapist (President of the Shiatsu Therpay 
Association of Australia) and practitioner of Chinese Herbal Medicine. I 
specialise in the treatment of children (using acupressure methods 
primarily). I studied a special form of orthopedics and traumatology, called 
Point percussion therapy under Professor Wang Zhou-pu from Beijing. This 
form especially addresses partial paralysis syndromes such as cerebral 
palsy, stroke, as well as dystrophy, atrophy, multiple sclerosis, motor 
neurone disease and so on. With my colleague Dr Zhang jiansheng PhD, an 
associate professor of pharmacy and pharmacology from Beijing, we provide a 
continuing education program of two and a half years in the pharmacology of 
Chinese herbal medicine.
What I'm really interested in sharing with you is what I consider an 
exciting development here in Australia with the formation recently of the 
Australian Chinese Medicine Education and Research Council, following an 
independent selection process conducted nationally and comprising twelve 
members, eight of whom are chinese, three from Australian training 
backgrounds and one former American, who studied in Taiwan and PRC and now 
living in Melbourne. 
I was the project manager for the establishment of this council and have 
written a report entitled "Chinese Medicine - A Tradition in Transition". It 
describes the process by which the council was formed, with a brief history 
of Chinese Medicine in Australia, the attempts at development of Standards 
and liaison between the twenty-odd representative associations, the current 
moves towrds Competency-based Standards and the future roles of the council. 
It also includes biographies of the selected council members.
If anyone would like a copy I'd be glad to forward it (It runs to almost 
eighty pages!)Copies of the whole document cost Aus$20.00 (to cover costs 
incl. postage); I'm not sure if this is the sort of thing you keep in the 
article archive but I'd be happy to upload it (or part thereof) if this is 
appropriate or desirable.
Anyway, this breaks my virginity on this mail-list, I'm glad to be on-board 
and look forward to any and all messages and replies,

Cheers for now from Down Under :-)
Peter Gigante

East West Therapies
TCM SHIATSU THERAPIES P/L
P.O BOX 1
Balaclava Vic.
AUSTRALIA  3183