The major difference between Chinese and English herbs is that, unlike their western counterparts, the former are not merely crude drugs but are often dried botanically. In some cases, they have been processed through several steps such as selection, cutting, peeling, scrubbing, leeching, roasting, and so on. Performed painstakingly by hand in a carefully prescribed… Read More »
If you have despaired of losing weight because all your diets have bombed, it may be due to diet blunders rather than frail determination. When you set yourself unachievable goals for your dieting program, you’re up for defeat. If you do not meet your goal, you’ll give up. Or worse still, you may seek solace… Read More »
According to Dr. Karrer (a Nobel Prize laureate in the 1930s), our body cells theoretically would not age. However, human beings could not lead a long life because the by-products of our body’s metabolism are not expelled totally. It is therefore important to choose properly the food we consume. Living in the modern society, men… Read More »
The opening prologue may read like a confusing maze of dialogue if you are unfamiliar with the Q Continuum and its impact on the Star Trek timelines. Unfortunately, I can’t bring myself to finish the book as confusion sets in with the many diversions in the storyline. It also gets boring when you introduce omnipotent… Read More »
Atonement kicked off with a rather disjointed prologue that left anyone wanting to follow up with the ending of the previous Acts of Contrition in a state of confusion, unless you have followed the series from Unworthy. The novel is appropriately titled, because many of the characters set about doing just that, with the exception… Read More »
As the sole, long-suffering OCD organiser in the family, it is easy to understand why this book appealed to me. Not so easy to understand is how it will gain sympathy for our plight. I tried to let this book spark joy for me, but maybe something was lost in translation and I almost tossed… Read More »