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Author: Dr. Kim, Medical Doctor at Aurea Care (Pen name) Centuries before neuroscience, the Buddhists looked inward and saw what labs are only now confirming: the world you experience isn’t the world itself, but a mental construction. And the “you” doing the experiencing is no exception. You are nothing but an illusion the brain assembles … […]
Author: Dr. Kim, Medical Doctor at Aurea Care (Pen name) Time usually behaves. It ticks along, easy to ignore. Then you try a little green, and the clock starts misbehaving. Five minutes swell into fifteen. A song you’ve heard a hundred times suddenly reveals layers you’d missed: a hidden harmony, a buried rhythm, the breath … […]
Author: Dr. Kim, Medical Doctor at Aurea Care (Pen name) Reality is supposed to be solid. The ground under your feet. The clock on the wall. The self inside your head that says, I am me. But at higher doses (especially edibles) cannabis pokes holes in that solidity. Minutes stretch into hours or vanish altogether. … […]
Author: Dr. Kim, Medical Doctor at Aurea Care (Pen name) Your consciousness is the only thing you’ve ever truly owned. Not your house, not even your body or your name. Those can be taken, traded, rewritten. Consciousness is different. It’s the vantage point from which you experience everything. It isn’t just something you have. It … […]
Rules and Their Limits Author: Dr. Kim, Medical Doctor at Aurea Care (Pen name) Modern medicine likes rules. One symptom. One cause. One molecule to fix it. A graph to prove it worked. That’s the playbook: tidy, testable, and tight. It gave us antibiotics, vaccines, insulin—slam dunks for a system built on precision and control. … […]
Author: Dr. Kim, Medical Doctor at Aurea Care (Pen name) Sitting was a timed event for him, though he didn’t need a clock to know when time was up. About ten minutes in, his lower back would start staging a revolt. So he kept a foam cushion in the car and treated every chair like … […]
How cannabis can reduce medication burden Author: Dr. Kim, Medical Doctor at Aurea Care (Pen name) Some patients don’t have a medication list. They have a medication scroll. You’ve seen this patient. A 68-year-old lady with chronic pain, insomnia, hypertension, anxiety, reflux, and a care team that stopped communicating sometime around 2017. She’s on tramadol, … […]
Author: Dr. Kim, Medical Doctor at Aurea Care (Pen name) Think of cannabis as a band. Most people only know the lead singer: THC—flashy, loud, unpredictable, hard to ignore. Maybe they’ve heard of CBD, the calm, steady bassist holding the groove. But the rest of the crew? CBN, CBG, CBC, THCV? They sound more like … […]
Author: Dr. Kim, Medical Doctor at Aurea Care (Pen name) Let’s talk about the patients who don’t fit in boxes. The ones who’ve seen ten specialists and still don’t have a diagnosis. The ones whose symptoms shift, blend, flare, and fade—seemingly at random. The ones who get labeled with terms like functional, psychosomatic, or just … […]
Author: Dr. Kim, Medical Doctor at Aurea Care (Pen name) Let’s get one thing straight: cannabis isn’t magic. It won’t regrow cartilage. It won’t delete your trauma. It won’t fix your pancreas or lower your taxes. It won’t make you enlightened (though it might make you think you are for a few hours — which … […]