Traditional Chinese Medicine, also known as TCM, includes a range of traditional medicine practices originating in China
Moxibustion is an old therapy of Chinese medicine which has been used for many years. This article is just show some of the functions about it.
Curing Insomnia
Moxibustion at both sides of Yongquan can make people calm and feel quiet. If added with Zusanli, which can make energy and blood grow well, the function of curing insomnia will be much better.
Hairdressing
May 5th in the traditional Chinese calendar is Dragon Boat Festival of China. At this time of year, wormwood is grown and can be seen and smelled around us. Wormwood is such an useful plant that it can be cooked, using as a material of delicious soup, taken to cure disease, driven mosquito. Moreover, it is even a raw material of perfume.
However, I am obliged to say that moxibustion is the most formidable function of wormwood itself. And this therapy is used for many hundreds years, which is now be fashionable again among modern people. Read more…
The Dragon Boat Festival is a traditional festival of our Chinese people. When at this day, we eat rice dumpling, having a dragon boat match, and the most important, to cherish the memory of Qu Yuan, the famous patriotic poet of China.
Well, the Dragon Boat Festival is not only a festival eating and playing. Besides its gigantic significance of Chinese traditional culture, it has some meaning at regimen too.
It is an old saying that if you often get ill which are not serious, you will not easily get ill which are very serious. According to which is said above, when body is not very comfortable or get some slight symptoms, it is not necessary to take medicine or make a fuss about it. Sometimes, feeling unwell is a quite normal thing for our body condition and during our life. Maybe sometimes, it is just a kind of self-adjusting of our body.
This article will show you some kinds of unwellness to prove it.
Cough
It does not mean you get pneumonia or cold every time when you cough, it can also mean you have some unclear things in your respiratory tract which need a channel to go outside. Cough is a good way to keep unclear things such as dust, secretion, and pernicious gases out of our body. So do not be nervous when you get a cough, it does not always mean a respiratory disease, it does Read more…
Different collor of your lip will show different condition of your body for you. And this short passage will tell you some conditions about it.
Ruby or purple-red lip show that you have excessive fire in your body.
Pale lip show that both energy and blood in your body is deficient.
Livid lip indicate that energy and blood can not go smooth in the body.
Lichee is a kind of delicious fruit in summer. Once a famous poet said, if I can eat 300 lichees everyday I will go nowhere forever.
Lichee belongs to meridian of spleen and liver, it can generate liquid and blood of the body, antidiarrhea, make body and organ warm, make engergy going more smooth and so on. So it can cure anaemia, diarrhea, deficiency of vital energy, gastric cold, hiccup and so on. All these above can be seen in Compendium of Materia Medica.
Superficial and essence is a pair of opposite words.
They are mainly used to tell us the relationship of many factors of disease.
For example, healthy energy is essence, and pathogenic factor is superficial; pathogeny is essence, and symptom is superficial; old disease is essence, and new disease is superficial.
Most people know that nourishing can make people healthy and to some extent prolong people’s life. But it is never known that release can also make people healthy to some extent.
There are two kinds of release in our body: one is physical, the other one is psychological.
Some physical release such as sneeze, cry, sweat, exhale, defecate, urinate are all regimen. Through these we can throw waste and toxin away, and keep bacteria and virus away from our body. Read more…
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