Traditional Chinese Medicine, also known as TCM, includes a range of traditional medicine practices originating in China
August 8,2011 is a solar terms called autumn begins in Chinese culture. That means autumn is coming after that day. Tough it is cool at night, it is still hot in the day. So you may not realize that autumn is coming. However, the regimen should be changed for your body.
Autumn is a interim period of the change of yinyang. Yang is going to disappear and yin begins to grow. Lung has some relationship with the season autumn. If your lung qi is weak, Read more…
Some animals and plants can both be food and medicine to cure disease, which called food and medicine have the same origin. For instance, ginseng can tonify qi, lily can reduce cough, Chinese-date can nourish blood and take care of spleen and stomach, Chinese yam can tonify kidney and control nocturnal emission. Chinese herb medicine is popular because of its convenient and cheap to buy and it can easily be collocated with normal food . This kind of food is called medicated food or medicated porridge. And the most popular ones are the seed of Job’s tears and hawthorn. Read more…
Due to lacking of knowledge of how to tonify and taboo of tonify some people tonify as they like or even excess which lead to the opposite result as they will. So if you want to tonify properly, you should know how to tonify first.
Mistakes of tonifying.
Tonify incorrectly. Some patients of diabetes do not know some tonifying medicine contain much sugar in it, so if taking too much such kind of medicine can not get the result as desire, however, it can aggravate the former disease. Read more…
Sea acupoint is one of the Five Shu points. Ling Shu Jiuzhen Shieryuan said that what enters called sea acupoint. It means that qi comes from the bottom of limbs and arrive here, where is the most and biggest. It just like several rivers come here and join into sea.
Sea acupoints are most near elbow and knee-joint. As to its clinic practice, Ling Shu said that you can use sea acupoint to cure diseases such as channels full to blood, stomach disease and disease due to immoderate diet.
In Nan Jing it said sea acupoint’s main function is to turn against of qi in order to release. It Read more…
Dubi is an acupuncture point of stomach channel of foot yangming. It is on the knee, the hollow between kneecap and outboard of ligamentum patellae. It also has a name called Waixiyan. You can find it when curve your knee at 90 angle.
Dubi can cure gonyalgia, dermatophytosis, paralysis of legs, swell of Dubi and so on. It can also cure gonitis with the help of Liangqiu, Xiyan and Weizhong.
Zusanli is one of the main acupuncture points of stomach channel of foot yangming. It is a main point for strengthening body and mind. As traditional Chinese medicine thought that massage Zusanli can adjust immunity, enhance ability of disease-resistant, take care of stomach and spleen, tonify middle-jiao and qi, clear and activate the channels and collaterals, dispel wind and defuse eczema, strengthen body resistance and eliminate evil.
It is at the anterolateral of shank, 3 cun below Dubi, one finger wide (wide of middle finger) from leading edge of shin bone. It is sea acupoint of stomach channel of foot yangming, and the lower he sea acupoint of stomach.
Why it called Zusanli in Chinese medicine? Sanli (the three inner) means take care of top, middle, and bottom. Stomach is on the top of belly, so when feel gasteremphraxis and stomachache we should take care of the top. Read more…
Many pregnant women know that taking western medicine inadequately can lead to abortion or malformation. So when they feel unwell they tend to go to Chinese medicine doctor’s for help. However, taking Chinese medicine inadequately will also lead to abortion and some of them will lead to malformation of baby too.
After a long research expert of Chinese medicine found that some Chinese medicine can lead to abnormal growth of fetus. They are ginkgo, semen armeniacae amarae, peach kernel, arsenolite, realgar, cinnabar, magnetite, cinnabar sedative pill and so on. Chinese medicine can divided into forbidden and caution in two kinds according to its extent of injury to pregnant women and fetus.
Forbidden medicine for pregnant women: it is medicine with strong toxicity or strong drug properties, such as croton, kaladana, kanziol, pokeberry root, cantharides, nux vomica, mercury, musk, rhizome sparqanii, Read more…
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