Traditional Chinese Medicine, also known as TCM, includes a range of traditional medicine practices originating in China
In Chinese medicine these two organs are in great attch to each other.
Spleen likes dry and dislikes wet condition, on the contrary, stomach likes wet and dislikes dry condition.
Though they are diffierent, they can restrain each other. Because stomach is dry, it can prevent spleen from being too wet. In the same way, if stomach is too wet, spleen can make it to be drier.
Grain rain, one of the 24 solar terms, is a solar term in spring. At this time everything grows in the world. That means yangqi, which is named in Chinese medicine, grows bloomly. This yangqi can be also called external fire of nature. And external fire, which caused by all growing things, can lead inner fire grows inside our body. Inner fire often comes to liver, which is “an irritable organ” of our body. That liver fire will lead to many symptoms in spring, such as nasal cavity, gum, respiratory tract or skin hemorrhage, and headache, dizzy, conjunctival congestion and other eye trouble. All these above are so called inner fire in spring.
Lotus root is a kind of food which can remove the irritating and keep body cool. It can also do good to the lung and reduce cough. Because of containing much vitamin C and vitamin K, lotus root can help ulcer to recover. Moreover, its vitamin B and other microelements can accelerate the process of mucosal epithelium of mouth to recover too.
Lotus root is full of dietary fibre. And dietary fibre can relieving constipation, remove the irritating and nourish yin, reduce the pressure of stomach, make the body feel cool. All these above are helpful to treat oral ulcer too.
In Chinese medicine, precious jade can be used as initiator. That is really wired, but it is true that jade has the function of curing disease. It can be seen in shennong' s Herbal classic and An Outline Treatise of Medical Herbs that jade is salty and cold, which can relieve whiny mood and anger, do good to heart and lung, make hair grow well, make people feel quiet, blood flow smooth, ear and eye more bright and so on.
Initiator makes great importance in prescription and decoction. Chinese medicine considers meridian as the channel of human body. Energy and blood reach all places of the body such as surface and Read more…
Tu Fu, the greatest realistic poet of ancient China, was at the same time a hard-working farmer who grew herbs.
In his poems, we can see many describes about the beautiful and fragrant herbs such as cassia tora, gardenia, lilac etc. These graceful verse like graceful melody can be created by nobody but this poem saint.
Writing poem is a way to express his disagreement and angry about the times which he lived. And Tu Fu had learned much about herbal medicine and how to grow them. After plucking the herbs, he dried them and marked them and stored them, in order to take by himself or sell to others who need them.
Tu Fu liked drinking too. When he was drunk, the drug garden became the best place to rest and recover, which was the most important place, his own paradise.
Now if you visit Tu Fu Cottage, you will see all kinds of herbs with different colors.
Yinyang are two opposite aspects of things. For example, up and low, warm and cold, day and night. Everything has these two aspects. And you can find the phenomenon all over the world.
What is yin and what is yang? In a word, yin is just like the water. So if one thing is agglomerate, wet and restraining as water is called yin, such as the moon, the earth, night, cold,and all materiality. These are dark, quiet, heavy, inside and low. Yang is just like the fire. So if one thing is hot, dry, ascensive can be called yang. For example, the sun, the sky, day, warm and all immateriality. These are bright, move, light, outside and up.
Yin and Yang is two opposite states fighting against each other. But they are also tight with each other, or else, both of them will not exist any longer.
Yin and Yang is in a balance state. If one is stronger, then the other will be weaker. And if one is weaker, then the other will be stronger. If the body is in an over feed state, then yin and yang will both be stronger.If the body is in a bad state, then yin and yang will both be weaker.
Yin and yang can switch from each other. If one is over developed, it will turn into the opposite one. Read more…
What is energy(精气jingqi) in Chinese medicine? Energy is some tiny thing all over the world. It is the element of everything, including our human beings.
There are two existent states of energy——materiality and immateriality. And these two states convert from each other. The movement of enegry makes the whole world change constantly, which can be seen in many aspects.
Energy is the agency of contact between one thing and another, and it can come into the body and turn to a part of it.
Energy can also leave too. When it is disappear from the body, we die.
Salt food is good to kidney, but eating too much will do harm to your heart. Because heart is the origin of blood, salt will restrain generating of blood, forcing blood gather in the vessel. When eating too much salt your face will turn black which means you are not healthy as before.
So if you often feel palpitation, gasp, chest pain and such symptom of lacking heart energy, you had better eating less salt from now on.
This herb belongs to spleen and stomach meridian. It can accelerate the process of digest, expel redundant water of body, reduce sweat, anti-abortion. It used to cure inappetence, abdominal distension, diarrhea, veitigo, spontaneous perspiration, edema, and too much quickening.
When accelerating the process of digest, it can be used with codonopsis pilosula and liquorice. And when doing with abdominal distension, it can be used with zhiqiao（枳壳）. C henpi(陈皮) and tuckahoe（茯苓）with 白术 is good to promote the functiion of spleen and make the body drier.
Usually the dose of it is 6 to 12 g.
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