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Garden Management Journal Entry:
11:20 am
November 12, 2013

Ginkgo Leaf, November 12, Enchanted Garden, San Diego. I went out to call upon the wisdom of this ancient plant this morning and gain some familiarity. This pursuit was inspired by an ongoing condition, that may trace to my constant use of the computer. My memory seems to be more and more dependent on this machine, and I am seeking solutions to an sense of internal memory loss. I asked my friends at Golden Flower Herb Company, who I see once a year at the Pacific Symposium, if they had any remedies for my memory issues. I took their Ginkgo formula into an appointment with doctoral candidates at the Pacific College of Oriental Medicine San Diego. They thought this formula would be good for me. I have been researching the plant for a number of hours. We have two pots of Gingko growing here. I am drawn to its ancient wisdom. The leaf has existed in its present form for millions of years. I can use that kind of rootedness now. I go for acupuncture on a weekly basis at the Pacific College of Oriental Medicine San Diego Campus. I have been part of that healing community for many years.


http://gfcherbs.com/index.php/ginkgo-formula-240.html

Seeking help from Ginkgo

TOOK FIRST DOSAGES
November 12, 2013
11:15 am

Having some improvements after two days.


GINKGO--ABOUT IT--RESEARCH I FOUND TODAY

It is a very old plant, going back millions of year. This impresses me.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ginkgo


FROM A FORMULA DISCUSSION

The Brain Ruling Theory of Consciousness...


In classical China, the brain did not receive anywhere near the scope and scale of medical inquiry as it now does. Until the late Ming Dynasty “consciousness” was always believed to reside in the heart and in the blood, while the brain, as a “curious organ,” was merely “the sea of marrow” and the receiver of data from the senses. As the receiver of sense data, the brain was thought to function primarily as a kind of computer, having various and influenceable degrees of efficiency in its processing of the data it received. The “influences” come from the quality of postnatal qi and the kidney essence we provide our brains (derived from food, drink, sleep, and lifestyle), but also from the condition and character of our shen (spirit). It was reflection upon these ideas of how the brain’s function can be influenced and the close connection between brain function and shen that lead Li-shi Zhen in the 16th Century to introduce his “brain ruling” theory of consciousness, wherein he posited the brain to be the governor of consciousness. The medical implications of this notion were not explored in the years that followed, not even by Li-shi Zhen himself. It took another three centuries and much cross- enculturation with the West before Wang Qing Ren would be able to emphatically DE CLARE that “intelligence and memory reside not in the heart but in the brain.”

I WONDER ABOUT THE EFFECTS OF THE COMPUTER IN REWIRING THE BRAIN?

I have been reading about this...and feel that my brain is being rewired by my constant computer use. I have been writing on this theme of the influence of computer use on rhe brain based on my own experience. --Leslie


Author Nicholas Carr: The Web Shatters Focus, Rewires Brains
By Nicholas CarrEmail AuthorMay 24, 2010 | 12:00 pm | Categories: Wired June 2010

Cognitive Overload?

"Psychologists refer to the information flowing into our working memory as our cognitive load. When the load exceeds our mind’s ability to process and store it, we’re unable to retain the information or to draw connections with other memories. We can’t translate the new material into conceptual knowledge. Our ability to learn suffers, and our understanding remains weak. That’s why the extensive brain activity that Small discovered in Web searchers may be more a cause for concern than for celebration. It points to cognitive overload."



Carr writes:

"working memory can hold only a relatively small amount of information at a time. And that short-term storage is fragile: A break in our attention can sweep its contents from our mind."


I wonder if my constant computer use has contributed to developing ADD--Attention Deficit Disorder? This concerns me very much: Every time I turn a page, I forget what I was doing! This now applies to my three D existence. I open a drawer...my attention is fixated on one thing...then something else draws my attention...then I might remember the other thing...this concerns me very much. My attention is constantly being distracted, unless I consciously focus using remedies that include Flower Essences. It makes me wonder what we are doing to the next Generation? ... and if Nature has answers in well constructed Formulas, using Ginkgo?
Of course, the answer is turning off the computer, but what do we do if our livelihood, in less that an decade, now depends on it?--Leslie


http://www.wired.com/magazine/2010/05/ff_nicholas_carr/

Research shows that Internet is rewiring our brains

"The generation gap has been upgraded. In a world brimming with ever-advancing technology, the generations are now separated by a "brain gap" between young "digital natives" and older "digital immigrants," according to Dr. Gary Small, director of UCLA's Memory and Aging Research Center at the Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior, and UCLA's Parlow-Solomon Chair on Aging."--Dr, Gary Small

http://www.today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/PRN-081015_gary-small-ibrain.aspx


Impact of too much computer use on memory

http://m.smartplanet.com/blog/science-scope/using-the-internet-affects-your-m...


Will Computers Become Super-Human?

Interesting...this link looks at a vision of the future based on the Computer and digital thinking dictating our evolutionary journey as human beings...

http://mind-computer.com/will-computers-become-super-human/


MAYO CLINIC

http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/ginkgo-biloba/NS_patient-ginkgo

Ginkgo biloba has been used medicinally for thousands of years. Today, it is one of the top-selling herbs in the United States.

Ginkgo is used for the treatment of numerous conditions, many of which are under scientific investigation. Available evidence demonstrates ginkgo's efficacy in the management of intermittent claudication, Alzheimer's/multi-infarct dementia, and "cerebral insufficiency" (a syndrome thought to be secondary to atherosclerotic disease, characterized by impaired concentration, confusion, decreased physical performance, fatigue, headache, dizziness, depression, and anxiety).

Although not definitive, there is promising early evidence favoring the use of ginkgo for memory enhancement in healthy subjects, altitude (mountain) sickness, symptoms of premenstrual syndrome (PMS), age-related eye disorders, and the reduction of chemotherapy-induced end-organ vascular damage.

The herb is generally well tolerated, but due to multiple case reports of bleeding, it should be used cautiously in patients on anticoagulant therapy and those with known blood clotting disorders, or prior to some surgical or dental procedures.





PRACTITIONERS CAN ORDER THIS FORMULA HERE
http://gfcherbs.com/index.php/ginkgo-formula-240.html

PACIFIC COLLEGE OF ORIENTAL MEDICINE AND HAMI HIGH SCHOOL GIFT ITEM

The Plant Your Dream Blog sponsors a number of Not for Profit Projects each year that our outreach to our current Campaign to Grow A Healthier Pizza Project that is currently writing an online version of Grow A Healthier Pizza, aiming for Food Reform in America. In 2014, I am holding an intention to introduce better Snack foods to the students at Pacific College of Oriental Medicine, as well as encourage students to shop at the local farmers market. In years past, I help inspire the creation of a CSA on campus, and would like to bring back that CSA to PCOM.

Once a year we create a healing Altar at the Annual Pacific Symposium. We also share our Enchanted Garden Plant Your Dream Work with the students of my niece Eva Becker at Hamilton High school.

I want to thank John Scott and so many others for support of my Not for Profit work. His name appears on the Gift Art Thank You Poster here, and at these schools.

 

KID TESTIMONIALS FROM UNCLE LESLIE IN THE CLASSROOM

NAMES ON THE ART GIFT

This is a work in Progress...November 13, 2013

http://plantyourdream.net/?p=16675


 

 

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