Liping Zhu

 

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billmelater b.

Bolinas, CA

Liping practices acupuncture in San Francisco and Mill Valley.  She also teaches classes in taichi and qiqong.  I've been practicing qiqong and taichi at her sunday morning class in golden gate park for a couple years.  It's made me more flexible on all levels in my life.

Not flexible as it turns out to come away from a motorcycle accident without some bumps and bruises.  If you were around 18th and Lincoln just after Strictly Bluegrass ended at GGP, you may have seen the accident.  If you did, I'd like to hear from you.

Anyway, I fractured a rib.  Every cell in my body is now renogiating the social contract with the cells around it.  My intent is clear, to remove the pain, reduce swelling and return to normal.

Some parts need more encouragement.  I decided to try acupuncture, so I went to see Liping for an office visit.  Liping is a holistic health practitioner, which is a lot more involved than teaching qiqong or taichi.  She asked a few questions, took a medical history.  We talked about the medications I take, the bad habits I practice daily, and we both agreed that fewer bad habits or less frequent practice thereof could improve the kidneys, the health of my blood, and the flow of energy through my body.  

Then she checked my  tongue.  Not bad.  Not great.  She showed me a book with tongue pictures.  Skip the part where she shows you the book of tongue pictures, and whatever you do, do not practice your bad habits to the point where your tongue finds its way into a book like that.

By now I can start to read my tongue every day.   Better.  Looks like a healthy piece of meat, with a little fur on top.  Better every week.  

I still feel pain from the ribs and beneath the clavicle where I took a lot of the force.  Good gear prevented much worse damage.  I can localize it now though.  I can influence it in a way.  We're communicating.  We're growing bone, reducing inflammation and stopping the pain.  We're not reaching at things.  We're using our legs more and our arms less.  especially that arm.  the other arm, the legs, the part that wants to ride again now are all paying attention.

That's just my story and I have only been to three treatments.  There's not a lot you can do when you're watching ribs heal than try to keep breathing well, and wait.  I'm learning as I am waiting and my body is repairing itself.  

She's also providing some 9 kind of tea pills to calm my kidney yin, and I have some Resinall K, a Qi Li San herbal supplement that I rub into the chest.  It promotes healthy bone growth.

On Sunday evening it will be 3 weeks from the time I broke the rib.  I've already got a sense that all is going well.  I still need to rest, because as she points out, every cell is re-negotiating its little social contract with the cells around it after those abrupt moves and shoves as I was leaving the motorcycle for the roadway.

If you were there, you'll be amazed at the bike's reaction.  I hit gravel as I was steering around the oncoming left turning SUV.  The bike has ABS, so it would have stopped, but the ridges on the scraped surface caused a tank slapper that actually snapped the brake lever off in my hand.  I got off.  The handlebar stuck after denting the gas tank, and that kept the bike up til it eventually hit the median strip.  The bike came away with minor damage.  It still wants me to ride it.  

Thanks to all who were impressed by its classic look and its calm demeanor in the face of an oncoming Ryan Thomas, driving his SUV. Headed into the sunset, without any signal, perhaps less than enough forethought, he turned left about 40 feet ahead of me.    

Ryan Thomas, white courtesy telephone.  Thanks SFPD for getting his name.  He told me that he didn't see me.  I told him that he didn't even signal, and that he was lucky this was not a lot worse.

He was telling everyone it was not his fault as I lay strapped into a neck suit.   As Joan Rivers would say, Ryan, give me a call.   "Can we talk?".  Lets put the facts together and see if we can agree on which side of the road this occurred.   It's the right of way.  It's the right thing to do.  It's good for your energy flow.  You're blocking.  Breathe.

I recall one of those woeful bluegrass moments when I realized that I had a choice of following the brake handle to the ground or staying on the bike to see if we could get around the SUV with no brakes.  How can you leave me when I won't let go.  I let go.

So allow me to focus my ninyen after that rant.  Liping offers simple advice and if you are open to energy healing, she's there to teach you how to heal you, and to give you the help you need along the way, a lot of it as information and good advice.

Stop the pain, reduce the inflamation, return to normal.

My Kaiser doc was pretty impressed when I had a checkup last week.  He put in my record the acupuncture treatments and we discussed the relative benefits of western and traditional medicine.

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