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@clinicalmulch.bsky.social
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I write a Substack on acupuncture and Chinese medicine for advanced students and practitioners. clinicalmulch.substack.com

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Pól Micheál O'Slatraigh @pmoslatraigh.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
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Clinical mulch @clinicalmulch.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I feel blessed to be among so many intelligent and accomplished colleagues when I'm just some dipshit in Florida
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Clinical mulch @clinicalmulch.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Make your favorite film sound as boring as possible without giving away the title: Man keeps running into someone he can't quite place. Meanwhile, a widow plans to build a railway station.
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Ian Hayden @haydenwhat.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
christopher nolan acupuncture drama would go hard
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Clinical mulch @clinicalmulch.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
What can we do to get Christopher Nolan interested in old Chinese medicine texts? 🤔 www.inquirer.com/entertainmen...
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A Penn professor thought she’d sell 1000 copies of her ‘Odyssey’ translation. She sold more than a million this year alone, thanks to Christopher Nolan.
West Philly's Emily Wilson, who penned a highly acclaimed translation of the epic poem in 2017, is having a big summer.
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The Public Domain Review @publicdomainrev.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
Top #gardening tip: keep "ypericon" (St John's Wort) in your garden for optimal demon repelling. From Tractatus de Herbis, a northern Italian manuscript made to help apothecaries and physicians identify useful ingredients. More here: publicdomainreview.org/collection/t...
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Clinical mulch @clinicalmulch.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
Anyone planning to visit DC, be careful not to trip over all the rolling heads
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Clinical mulch @clinicalmulch.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
Been years since I listened to this album www.youtube.com/watch?v=xJ5U...
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Masters of Persian Music - Tasnif ba Man Sanama (Mowlavi)
YouTube video by Henri de Saussure
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Clinical mulch @clinicalmulch.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
Hella busy at the clinic today and fasting so I'm running on empty so I almost forgot today is Bandcamp Friday. I did knock one more off my wishlist, Scott Kinsey's Luniwaz Live. scottkinsey-whirlwind.bandcamp.com/album/luniwa...
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Luniwaz LIVE, by Scott Kinsey
12 track album
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Clinical mulch @clinicalmulch.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
My son's new demo reel is live. Have a listen if you've got a minute and a half.
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Clinical mulch @clinicalmulch.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
Fascinating conversation around Latin American history and the recurrent theme of Saturn-Neptune conjunctions, with a special focus on Bad Bunny and Puerto Rico. The guest is my astrologer and Chinese medicine colleague Ashley Otero, L.Ac. www.youtube.com/watch?v=DFZe...
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Bad Bunny, Puerto Rico, and the Saturn-Neptune Conjunction
YouTube video by The Astrology Podcast
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Clinical mulch @clinicalmulch.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
Filling up my shopping cart now
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Clinical mulch @clinicalmulch.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
Florida nurse has her license suspended after being fired for a social media post. www.wptv.com/news/region-...
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Boca Raton nurse barred from practicing in Florida following viral comments about Karoline Leavitt
A Palm Beach County nurse whose online comments made national headlines is no longer allowed to practice in Florida.
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Clinical mulch @clinicalmulch.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
my son, who locks himself in his room for hours making strange noises
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Clinical mulch @clinicalmulch.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
Spending most of my day doing acupuncture, translating old medical texts, and reading research I DL'd on CNKI is how I'm living my very Chinese time. www.wired.com/story/made-i...
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Why Everyone Is Suddenly in a ‘Very Chinese Time’ in Their Lives
The viral meme isn’t really about China or actual Chinese people. It's a symbol of what Americans believe their own country has lost.
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Clinical mulch @clinicalmulch.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
Listening to Ralph Towner after the sad news that he passed. RIP maestro.
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Clinical mulch @clinicalmulch.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
A favorite herb. I'll try and make this.
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Clinical mulch @clinicalmulch.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
Per the repost about how making >$5 from writing puts you in the top 1% earning bracket for writers throughout history... I'm grateful to the folks who have donated to support my publication, and amazed that I'm in the top 1% of anything.
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Ben Kuchera @benkuchera.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
I remember when a writing teacher asked us to raise our hand if we've made more than $5 from our writing. Three of us did. We were told that's enough to put us in the top 1% of most successful writers through history. A little hyperbole, but not far off. I still think about it.
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Clinical mulch @clinicalmulch.bsky.social · 01/01/2026
Happy New Year!
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Clinical mulch @clinicalmulch.bsky.social · 21/12/2025
This looks good, downloading into my TBR file.
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IASTAM @iastam.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
WHO Global Summit on Traditional Medicine is live now. This links to the programme as well as the live feed. tm-summit.org
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Second WHO Global Summit on Traditional Medicine
The World Health Organization’s Global Summit on Traditional Medicine explores ‘Restoring balance: The science and practice of health and well-being’.
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Clinical mulch @clinicalmulch.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
“I would just leave it at, ‘Hey, it’s really hot’ or ‘There’s a hurricane coming.’” This has been my experience too. A lot of tiptoeing, though here we're at ground zero for sea level rise. Big money is at stake which breeds an atmosphere of intimidation.
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Clinical mulch @clinicalmulch.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
Seeing this with some acupuncturists too
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Clinical mulch @clinicalmulch.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
Just donated to WLRN's end-of-the-year fundraising drive. Support public broadcasting! www.wlrn.org
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The latest breaking news, stories and features from Miami-Dade, Broward, Monroe and Palm Beach County from the award-winning team at South Florida's NPR member station.
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Clinical mulch @clinicalmulch.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
According to my Youtube 2025 recap, this was the track I played most this year. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ALzI...
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So I Got To Groove
YouTube video by Tower Of Power - Topic
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Clinical mulch @clinicalmulch.bsky.social · 29/11/2025
I mulched the commentary on the Four Seas in Zhēn Jiǔ Féng Yuán (針灸逢源, Encountering the Origins of Acumoxa) by Lǐ Xuéchuān, 1815, and present it here with some notes of my own. clinicalmulch.substack.com/p/ancestors-...
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Ancestors of the Hundred Rivers
On the Four Seas
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Clinical mulch @clinicalmulch.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
About this time a couple of years ago, I published what turned out to be one of my more popular posts in terms of views. Still not sure why, lol. I’m seeing a lot of respiratory stuff lately, as one would figure in metal season, so it’s good to revisit. clinicalmulch.substack.com/p/rectifying...
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Rectifying Counterflow in Metal Season
On Treating Cough
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Clinical mulch @clinicalmulch.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
Good piece on how GenAI reinforces colonialist hierarchies and accelerates the loss of traditional and indigenous knowledge. www.theguardian.com/news/2025/no...
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What AI doesn’t know: we could be creating a global ‘knowledge collapse’ | Deepak Varuvel Dennison
The long read: As GenAI becomes the primary way to find information, local and traditional wisdom is being lost. And we are only beginning to realise what we’re missing
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Clinical mulch @clinicalmulch.bsky.social · 15/11/2025
"The results paint a picture of fibromyalgia as a brain-based disorder characterised by dysregulated neural communication rather than inflammation or peripheral tissue damage." www.medicalrepublic.com.au/fibromyalgia...
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Fibromyalgia finally gets a genetic fingerprint - Medical Republic
A massive global study links the chronic pain condition to 26 genes associated with brain signalling, marking a turning point in understanding its biological roots.
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Clinical mulch @clinicalmulch.bsky.social · 15/11/2025
“The storm hit rural Jamaica hardest – people who are poorest, least protected, and historically marginalised. The same communities shaped by slavery, colonial extraction, and racialised policies are now on the frontline of climate disaster." www.theguardian.com/news/2025/no...
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Hurricane Melissa a ‘real-time case study’ of colonialism’s legacies
Destruction in Jamaica shows why climate justice cannot be separated from reparatory justice, campaigners say
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Clinical mulch @clinicalmulch.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
My family easily spent $250 a week at Publix. Now we go elsewhere.
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Clinical mulch @clinicalmulch.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
Farewell to a master. www.theguardian.com/film/2025/no...
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Tatsuya Nakadai, Japanese actor of Ran, Yojimbo and Harakiri, dies aged 92
Star of Japan’s cinematic golden age, who collaborated with Kurosawa and played the lead in Kobayashi’s Human Condition trilogy, died from pneumonia
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Clinical mulch @clinicalmulch.bsky.social · 09/11/2025
A couple of years ago around this time, I wrote about Fructus Amomi Villosi, better known to us as shārén, and questions of its channel entry. clinicalmulch.substack.com/p/qi-cannot-...
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Qì Cannot Return to the Source
On Shā Rén
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Clinical mulch @clinicalmulch.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
Happy Hallowe'en! Here is some mulch from a couple years back, on the #ghostherbs series and the ghost-ridden lore of the peach tree, including its seed, táorén, and its flower, táohuā. clinicalmulch.substack.com/p/the-essenc...
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The Essence of Five Woods
Ghost Herbs 5
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Clinical mulch @clinicalmulch.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
"We don't like feeling shame. We want to avoid it. It's very uncomfortable," ... And if the source of shame is from the clinician, the patient may ask, "'Why would I go back?' In some cases, that patient may generalize that to the whole health care system."
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Clinical mulch @clinicalmulch.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
RIP JDJ. Saw his band on a double bill with Dave Holland's quintet 40 years ago, so great. Spent many hours listening to recordings featuring his powerful, technically flawless and endlessly inventive drumming. Thanks for all the amazing music, maestro. www.theguardian.com/music/2025/o...
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Jack DeJohnette, versatile jazz drummer known for Miles Davis fusion recordings, dies aged 83
Drummer played on Bitches Brew and other landmark recordings, as well as making numerous albums as a bandleader
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Clinical mulch @clinicalmulch.bsky.social · 25/10/2025
whiskey tango foxtrot
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Clinical mulch @clinicalmulch.bsky.social · 05/10/2025
The treatment of pain with Chinese herbs has been an ongoing theme in our publication. In that vein, I’ve been doing some research on wēilíngxiān [Radix Clematidis, Clematis root]. Here are a few perspectives on the herb from the mid- to late-imperial eras. clinicalmulch.substack.com/p/mighty-spi...
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Mighty Spiritual Immortal
On Wēilíngxiān
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Clinical mulch @clinicalmulch.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
“This tendency to fantasize — when times change and things aren’t what they were — that the poorest and most vulnerable are actually some sort of malicious freeloading class is a very old one” www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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The deceptive phrase behind Trump's Medicaid purge
How the idea of “able-bodied” is abused
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Clinical mulch @clinicalmulch.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
High and dry, out of the rain It's so easy to hurt others when you can't feel pain www.youtube.com/watch?v=AmHE...
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Daryl Hall & John Oates - Rich Girl (Official Audio)
YouTube video by hallandoatesVEVO
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Clinical mulch @clinicalmulch.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
My article for the latest issue of The Register of Chinese Herbal Medicine Journal is now up on Academia.The preview on the website looks off but it seems as if the PDF download button will produce a proper copy. www.academia.edu/143988477/TH...
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THE RETREAT OF ESSENCE
Fear and anxiety are on the rise. With an estimated prevalence of 4% of the global population and an increase of as much as 25% after the pandemic, anxiety disorders are bound to present in the clinic...
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Clinical mulch @clinicalmulch.bsky.social · 13/09/2025
On this day 2 years ago, I posted a piece about Bàn Xià Bái Zhú Tiān Má Tāng (Pinellia, Atractylodes Macrocephalae, and Gastrodia Decoction), with one of my formula infographics. clinicalmulch.substack.com/p/transform-...
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Transform Phlegm and Dispel Wind
On Bàn Xià Bái Zhú Tiān Má Tāng
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Clinical mulch @clinicalmulch.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
Hey, can anyone help me identify this mushroom? I found it in my yard while weed-whacking. Growing on a fallen palm trunk in a shady area. Southeast Florida, just north of Miami. Thanks in advance. #mushrooms #mycology
Photo of a white flat-capped mushroom on a fallen logunderside of a mushroom, showing the stem and gills
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Clinical mulch @clinicalmulch.bsky.social · 30/08/2025
My son's latest dub
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Clinical mulch @clinicalmulch.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
A little poria post. clinicalmulch.substack.com/p/hidden-spi...
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Hidden Spirit
On Poria
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Clinical mulch @clinicalmulch.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
A titan... en paz descanse
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Clinical mulch @clinicalmulch.bsky.social · 02/08/2025
Laser-emitting peacocks are the kind of thing I needed to see this morning. Thanks, Wired!
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Clinical mulch @clinicalmulch.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
Does the study demonstrate how well machines are able to differentiate TCM diagnostics and therapeutics or does it perhaps reveal how machine-like TCM diagnostics and therapeutics have become?
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Clinical mulch @clinicalmulch.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
New on Clinical mulch: Fear is increasing globally. How can we as acupuncturists help our patients and ourselves through the dark times? Some thoughts from prominent late imperial era physicians, and a few of our own. clinicalmulch.substack.com/p/about-to-b...
Graphic of the Chinese character "kong", meaning "fear", on a gray circular gradient background. The title of the piece at the top is "About to be Seized: Acupuncture treatment of fear" and at the bottom is the blog address clinicalmulch.substack.com. A faint watermark says "Graphic by Clinical mulch 2025".
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