Archive for March, 2010

纳差Na Cha

March 26th, 2010 cm
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纳（na） means appetite, which contains how much you eat and how well you can get from what you eat. In other words, it is how much you can absorb from the food. 差（cha） means bad， which is the opposite condition of good. So in a few words, the whole phrase 纳差(nacha) means you eat less and absorb little.

Na Cha belongs to stomach and spleens disease in Chinese medicine. It results from many fators, such as eating too much which can not be digested soon. Its symptom is vomitting some sour liquid, belch the gas which is sour too. Some other fator: if where is too much water in your body which can not easily expel, you will feel gastrectasia and your coat of the tongue will become more than Read more…

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Grades of Chinese Herb Medicine

March 26th, 2010 cm
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According to the difference of efficacy and capability, Chinese Medicine is made up of three grades.

The top one is called emperor, which is nontoxic or less toxic. Most of this kind of medicine is restorative, which can make people healthier and healthier. Why it is called emperor is that this kind of medicine is just like the emperor who can dominate the world, it can dominate our body. It is more natural than other medicine. Its mainly function is regulate the body with no obvious disease, not treat the body when it is ill.

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Prevent Before Getting Ill

March 26th, 2010 cm
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The yellow emperor’s book of internal medicine said:”The external wind came just as the heavist storm”. Doctor who is outstanding will cure it when it is exterior, so it is easy to cure. Secondly, doctor who is excellent will cure it when it comes a little inside, which is not as easy to cure as the former one. Thirdly, doctor who is not so good will cure it when it comes into the organs and bowels. And the last one, curing the organs and the bowels, is very difficult to make patients recover. “

That means we should do everything earlier, delay is dangerous, not only for disease, but also a fable of life.

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What does the Yellow Emperor’s Book of Internal Medicine told us about spring?

March 25th, 2010 cm
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Spring is a growing season. Every plant comes up and many animals begin to breed, give birth to new life. So according to the unity theory between human and nature, we should comply with the change of the world, planting and feeding, instead of cuting trees and killing animals.

We had better eat more green vegetables in spring. One of our customs is having a kind of food called spring roll at the spring comes. This food contains bean sprout or leek, such vegetables grow when the spring comes.And also, we eat toona sinesis, shepherd’s purse. In spring the green vegetables grow fast and absorb sunshine and other good things in nature, so eating these food is good for our health.

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Fruit of Siberian Cocklebur

March 25th, 2010 cm
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Siberian cocklebur is a kind of herb which can be used to cure many diseases. This herbage plant can be seen almost everywhere of China, because it is easy to grow. When I was young, when I played with other children outside, we often picked the fruit up, threw it to each other as our tiny weapons. As it has many thorns, it is easy to stick on our clothes or hairs. At that time I did not know this small weed was so helpful to us, until recently, did I find its various functions.

The fruit of siberian cocklebur alone, which is the most poisonous part of it, is a common herbal medicine. It can reduce lumbago, cure allergic rhinitis,malaria, parotitis, and ulcer of lower limbs, toothache, etc.

As it is poisonous, patients can not take it without doctors’ advice. Most people think that Chinese medicine is safe to some extent, but it is not correct. So we still have to pay more attention to it.

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How to Improve Yourself

March 25th, 2010 cm
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How to improving yourself according to Daoism of Xunzi? In Chinese, the character ‘improve yourself’ contains ‘unify’ in it. That means you are made up of two parts, one is your body, and the other is your mind. So if you want to improve, you must make sure that your body and mind is a whole thing. They are inseparable. So our behavior should conform to our thought, behavior after should have no conflict with the former one.

Pain and worry always comesfrom ourslves. So improve means harmonious. Not only with the outside world, but also, the most important, with ourselves.

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Compromise is Better Than Assimilation

March 25th, 2010 cm
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The Yellow Emperor’s Book of Internal Medicine tells us that compromise is better than assimilation. Just as the famous person once said, people with morality choose compromise other than assimilation, while contemptible person choose assimilation other than compromise.

The reason why compromise is better than assimilation is that compromise has more possibility to change. It makes things obtain more diversity. On the contrary, assimilation eliminates differences between one and another, so that only what look alike can remain. So it definitly lead to a negative result. Read more…

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Origin of Acupuncture

March 25th, 2010 cm
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During neolithic times, people learned how to make stonewares of different use. Then a special stone for medical practice only was created, which was the predecessor of acupuncture.

When using fire to keep warm, our ancestor found that heat was good for relieving pain. So they packed heated stones or sandy soil with animal skin and bark, and attach them on some part of the body. This was the original hot compression.

With the improvement of this skill, branch and hay were used as fuel of hot compression. The therapy of heating stimulate for some parts of the body cured many diseases, which was the predecessor of moxibustion, which is the other part of acupuncture.

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Inner Canon of the Yellow Emperor

March 25th, 2010 cm
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Inner Canon of the Yellow Emperor includes two parts, one is called Ling Shu(灵枢), and the other is called Su Wen(素问). Each of them has 9 volumes, and each volumes has 9 articles. That means both Ling Shu and Su Wen has 81 articles respectively.

Inner Canon of the Yellow Emperor finished during Chunqiu period. It includes the relationship between human and nature, physiology, pathology, diagnose, treatment and prevention.

Su Wen tells us something about viscera and bowels, meridian, etiology and mechanism，symptom，diagnose，treatment and acupuncture.

Ling Shu contains not only almost the same as Su Wen， but it still contains shu point, acpuncture tool, how to acupuncture, and principle of treatment.

Both of the books present the theory of yin-yang and five elments（mental, wood, water, fire and soil）.This theory emphasizes the importance of a right time, a proper condition and a good relationship. It shows that our human beings can not live alone without environment.

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Introduction of Chinese Medicine

March 25th, 2010 cm
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Chinese medicine, with a long history of thousands of years, basing on traditional Chinese literature, is a particular medicine of China.

Not only does it contribute to medicine of China, but also to the whole world to some exetent. Nowadays with the rapidly technology development, Chinese medicine still plays an important part in guiding our clinic medical practice.

And there is no doubt that Chinese medicine will bring more benefits to modern medicine and human beings in the future.

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