TCM Way

Dusk wakes the body; flight frees the dreamer; the strike goes still. Ollie's take: a dreamer, an anchor, a decider — one owl. Everyday speech quietly

The loop, the knot it ties, and the meal that ends it. Ollie's take: The loop loves midnight; the middle prefers dinner. It is two in the morning on a

You strike a match, the dark compressed stick begins to smolder, and within thirty seconds a thick, herbal plume rises toward the ceiling. Right on cu

You sit on the couch, thumbing through a ten-question quiz on your phone. It promises to reveal your personality type from your taste in coffee, your

A slim metal needle rests in the skin of the inner wrist, just above the styloid process. The point is Lieque, the seventh point on the Lung channel.