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Generative AI decreases the time & skill it takes to create a media artefact & increases the amount of artefacts. It decreases the amount of time people spend with an artefact. Most just want people on the internet to look for 5 sec and say "cool". Hyper fast food culture.
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Liver 3 (Tai Chong or Supreme Rushing): One Acupoint of the ‘Four Gates’ great for enabling Qi to move more freely around the body. Relieves pain and upset, as the Qi isn’t allowed to stagnate. LV3 is a very calming point, as the Liver is Wood and the latter’s emotion is anger.
The following information is from the Points Acupuncture Reference Software:
- Acupuncture Point: Liver 3 (LR 3, LR3)
- Chinese Name: Tai Chong
- English Name: Great Rushing
- Location: Just distal to the junction of the bases of the 1st and 2nd metatarsals.
- LR3-line
- Attributes: Shu-Stream, Yuan-Source and Earth point of the Liver channel. Ma Dan-yang Heavenly Star point.
- TCM Actions: Extinguishes liver Fire and clears liver yang; discharges damp-heat in the lower burner; soothes the liver; rectifies qi; courses the connecting vessels and quickens the blood.
- Indications: Metrorrhagia; hernia; enuresis; urinary stoppage; pain immediately anterior to the medial malleolus; distention ofthe lateral costal region; wryness of the mouth; infantile fright wind; epilepsy patterns; headache; dizziness; insomnia.
- Secondary Indications: Genital pain; genital retraction; saber and pearl-string lumps; fright wind; swill diarrhea; sore throat; dryness of the upper esophageal opening; lateral knee pain; weakness and aching in the lower leg; red, painful eyes; lumbar pain; lower abdominal fullness; pain in the umbilical region; cold feet; difficult evacuation; jaundice; thunderous rumbling in the abdomen; counterflow retching with no food intake; strangury; vacuity taxation edema; profuse, incessant postpartum perspiration; absence of menstruation.
- Needle Information: Perpendicular insertion .3 – .5 cun. Moxibustion is applicable.
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Exercise is one of the very most effective treatments for depression. So finds another large review of >200 studies. Higher intensity exercise (getting your heart pounding faster) had larger effects.
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One of the first examples of Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), ca 1974. Made by the research group of Richard Ernst in Zurich, acquired by Anil Kumar in July 1974. Read more...
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Marie Laveau (1801 – 1881) - Louisiana Creole practitioner of Voodoo, herbalist and midwife who was renowned in New Orleans.
