Archive for June, 2011

Get inflamed

Get inflamed is a term in Chinese medicine means imbalance of yin and yang, endogenous fire is vigorous. The so called fire is describing some hot syndrome inside body.

Fire can be divided into excess fire and deficiency fire. And some common syndromes of getting inflamed have heart fire and liver fire.

The method to cure called reduce internal heat. Take some Chinese medicine which can Read more…

Xiangsha yangwei pills

Ingredient: elecampane, fructus amomi, rhizome atractylodis macrocephalae, pericarpium citri reticulatae, Tuckahoe, pinellia tuber(made), rhizome cyperi(made by vinegar), immature bitter orange(fried), cardamine(without hull), magnolia bark(made with ginger), patchouli, liquorice, ginger, Chinese-date.

Xiangsha yangwei pill is the OTC drug of stomachache. It can make stomach warm and Read more…

Hair dye and hair care

As times goes by, our body experience a process of being old. We will find one or two hair turn white, then more. If you do not want yourself look so old, you can do hair dye conveniently to become beautiful again. It can not only change your out looking, but also enhance your self-confidence.

Nowadays we can find many kinds of hair dye in market. But both cheap and expensive ones have damage to scalp because they are chemical materials. One way to avoid the damage is to be far away from it. But if you can hardly give up hair dye, there is an easy way to enhance your immunity of scalp. Read more…

Middle part gastric cavity

Middle part gastric cavity is an acupuncture point belongs to ren channel. It is on the stomach, in the middle line of the body, 4 inches above belly button. It has the function of helping stomach and spleen, promoting water to go through out of the body.

Indication

Stomachache, bellyache, abdominal distension, vomit, nausea, dyspepsia, borborygmus, diarrhea, constipation, hemafecia, gasp, insomnia, epilepsy, gastritis, gastric ulcer, gastrectasis, prolapse of uterus, nettle-rash, food poisoning and so on.

Stomach cold

Stomach cold is a symptom of weakness of spleen yang, eating too much cold and raw food which leads to the damage of stomach yang. Then cold evil stay inside stomach makes you feel pain. This kind of pain can reduce with warm. And you may also have vomit, desiring for hot drink, have digest problem. The tongue is light and coating on the tongue is white and slippery. Pulse is low and slow. It can be cure by warming the stomach and dispel the cold.

Acupuncture point

Acupuncture point in traditional Chinese medicine is the part which can be acupunctured. Most of them are the places concentrated with nerve endings or some thicker nerve fibers. It is the reactive point of disease and stimulated point of remedy. The total number of acupuncture points of the body is 720, and 402 are used in medicine.

According to basic Chinese medicine theory, acupuncture point of the body has three main functions. It is the part that qi of main and collateral channels diffuse to body surface. Meanwhile, it is the reflection of diseases on body surface. And it is also the place to do Read more…

Some old Chinese sayings about ginger

Ginger are both a flavouring and a kind of Chinese medicine in Chinese culture. So it is important for people’s health. And there are some old Chinese sayings about it.

  1. Eating ginger at summer and radish at winner can keep the doctor away.
  2. The older the ginger is, the more spicy it is.
  3. Eating ginger in the morning is just like eating ginseng soup, however, eating ginger in the evening is just like eating arsenic.

Are these all right as modern view? Let us have a look at it. Read more…

Chinese Herb Medicine Inside Our Body——Pachyma Compound Digestive Tonic Pill

After going out for dinner with your friends, you may probably feel gasterectasis. There are some Chinese medicine can reduce your pain such as pachyma compound digestive tonic pill which contains hawthorn (coke) in it.
Hawthorn is a kind of food which is quite helpful to digesting. And when it is coked, the function will turn more effective.
Maybe you do not know your body has its own pachyma compound digestive tonic pill. Where is it?
There is an acupuncture point called Huáròumén in our body. It is one inch above belly button Read more…

Chinese Herb Medicine Inside Our Body—— Chaihu shugan powder

If you are a person that always get angry, you may feel pain on your left lower abdomen. It is hepatic stagnation in Chinese medicine. Chaihu is a good Chinese herb medicine to help to soothing liver-qi stagnation. If you feel unwell and pain, you can take chaihu shugan powder to reduce it.

Our body also have this kind of medicine of our own, though the part to massage is not quite easy to find. It is not a constant place but be different to each person. The method to find it is to lie down and reflex your abdomen, press your left lower abdomen with three fingers. Read more…

Chinese herb medicine inside our body——Stomach pill of aucklandia and amomum fruit

Can you believe that our own body has medicine to cure some of our diseases? A famous Chinese doctor told us it was real.

Stomach cold is quite common in modern people because most of them like to eat cold food such as ice-cream and beverage. Eating too much these food will lead to gastroptosis and you may always endure stomachache.

If you have some stomach problem, you may not pay too much attention to. Stomach problem is simple in your mind and almost every people will have stomachache and diarrhea more than one time during his life. However, stomach problem may not so simple in Chinese medicine. If it is getting worse, you may even die of it. So you should protect your stomach from now on. And when feeling unwell, you can take some medicine such as stomach pill of aucklandia and amomum fruit. It is quite useful for your disease. Read more…