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The Eight Extraordinary Vessels — The Classical Architecture of Cross-Body Qi Flow The eight extraordinary vessels are: the Conception Vessel (Ren Mai), the Governing Vessel (Du Mai), the Penetrating Vessel (Chong Mai), the Girdle Vessel (Dai Mai), the Yin Linking Vessel (Yin Wei Mai), the Yang Linking Vessel (Yang Wei Mai), the Yin Heel Vessel (Yin Qiao Mai), and the Yang Heel Vessel (Yang Qiao Mai). What makes them fundamentally different from the twelve regular meridians

Much public attention has been given to Oxycontin, while Benzodiazepines are seldom spoken of with any alarm. Yet I would estimate that 40-60% of my own clients have been addicted to this widely-prescibed drug. So it bears discussion here. Benzodiazepines were invented by Leo Sternbach, a Polish-American chemist working at Hoffmann-La Roche. He discovered the first one, chlordiazepoxide (Librium), in 1956, which was approved in 1960. Its "improved" version, Valium (diazepam),

A Note Before You Read This This document was not written to be comfortable. It was written because over four decades of working inside government addiction services taught me that the most important things are rarely said out loud, not in clinical meetings, not in policy briefings, not in the conversations between physicians and the patients they are managing. They are not said because saying them carries professional risk. They are not said because the system that benefits