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Qi and Energy: online translators

Wednesday Jul 14, 2010

In the final article on the meaning of qi and “energy” I showed the difference between these two different concepts. Despite being used as if they were one, they are actually very different.

Even using all sorts of arguments, since explain what it means Qi to show the recent history that led to his false translation or submit citations of Important technical books that draw attention to this problem, lots of people are still in their demand of not wanting to understand what it really means.

In this article I propose a little exercise that anyone can do. If, as many professionals say, qi means energy, then that should be observable in the online translators and dictionaries available online. I use online translators because anyone who reads this can use the text and make the experience for himself.
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PLANT ACUPUNCTURE, ESOTERISM AND NONSENSE – part II

Wednesday Dec 30, 2009

The article continues with the presentation by the author of this method and the type of research he has done:
“The research of Dr. Evaldo in acupuncture is in relation to breeding, flowering, fruiting, seed production and plant growth. He is searching now, ways to increase the resistance of plants to pests and diseases.
According to Dr. Evaldo, the positive energy (Yang) is responsible for the growth and formation of the crown of the plants. The negative energy (Yin) answered by the formation of fruit, flowers and seeds. Satisfactory results, therefore, depend on the distribution and the perfect balance of energy in all plant cells.[i]
The second part of the text is nothing more than a quick analysis based on some possible meanings of Yin and Yang when applied to botanical and does not help us at all. In the first part of the text we can find the fraud well explained.

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PLANT ACUPUNCTURE, ESOTERISM AND NONSENSE – part I

Monday Dec 28, 2009

Thanks to the excellent work of the directors of fórumMTC, whom I congratulate, the community of Portuguese acupunctures not only won an extra space to communicate and still was rewarded with access to various scientific studies and a variety of world news on acupuncture.
This article is a criticism of one of these articles (and should not be seen as critical to fórumMTC). An article removed from the site Landscape Brazil which in turn will have been published in the journal Sitios&Jardins. This article talks about plant acupuncture. As I will demonstrate what is called plant acupuncture is no more than a mutilation of TCM concepts based on esoteric ideas and without any basis minimally substantiated. Let pass then to the article itself:
Is stated at the outset:
“The acupuncture is a science and, like all science, a complex thing. In any case, we could say that its basic principle is to find the balance between positive and negative poles of energy that is running in the living creatures[i]

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