Archive for December, 2011

How to Protect Your Liver

December 25th, 2011 cm
{ No Comments }

Liver belongs to the five internal organs, which is an quite import organ of our body. As the five elements theory says, liver is similar as wood. So just as tree’s growing continuously, or as leaves stretch its body, the point of protect liver is to make it stretch. But what is stretch to liver? It means we should go along with it. For another example, if take liver as a person, we should make him happy and do not infuriate him. So do not often be angry in daily life.

Eye is just as the gate of liver. So if liver is in bad condition, eyes will feel uncomfortable too. So when you feel your eyesight is worse than before, you should pay attention to your liver health.

Read more…

Basic Theory , ,

How to Protect Your Stomach

December 20th, 2011 cm
{ No Comments }

Do not eat cold food as possible as you can. In Chinese medicine it is said cold will damage stomach yang, then cold will stay there which makes more damage.

Have a good mood. In Chinese medicine it is said anxiety will damage spleen, angry will damage stomach. So keep a good mood, smile everyday and make yourself happy.

Do not eat too much oily food and sweet food. Oily food will affect the function of spleen, make digest turn slow. Sweet food will affect the movement of qi, leave it stay in stomach. Too much qi in it will lead to stomachache and other uncomfortable feelings.

Regular diet. Eat regular is important to our health. Do not eat too much nor too quick. Both of them is harmful to your stomach. Read more…

Regimen , , , , , ,

How to cure pain

December 17th, 2011 cm
{ No Comments }

As the theory of pain in Chinese medicine is obstruction, the method to cure pain is to fight against obstruction. So it is said pain disappear with unobstruction. As most pain is caused by excess, so the method to cure pain is to make it unobstructed. Tonify is not proper in remedy.

It can also be cured with its different part of disease. If it is cold, it should make it warm. If it is hot, it should make it cool. If it is caused by blood disease, it should cure by disperse stagnate. If it is caused by deficiency disease, it should tonify to cure it.

How to choose the proper medicine should consider on the function and property of it. Read more…

Basic Theory , , , , , , ,

Classify of painkiller

December 8th, 2011 cm
{ No Comments }

Warming the middle jiao and disperse cold medicine: monkshood, made aconite, fructus evodiae, galangal, mountain spicy tree fruit, rhizome kaempferiae. These can cure bellyache caused by evil cold pathogeny.

Regulating vital energy painkiller: rhizome cyperi, elecampane, citrus chirocarpus, kamuning, the root of three-nerved spicebush, Foeniculum vulgare, skin of citron, rhizoma nardostachyos, aspongopus, caulis perllae, turmeric, radix bupleuri, semen litchi, fructus amomi.

Promoting blood circulation and removing blood stasis painkiller: Ligusticum wallichii, root of common peony, Angelica sinensis, corydalis tuber, radix curcumae, turmeric, red flower, lignum dalbergiae odoriferae, raw pollen typhae, rhizoma sparganii, curcuma zedoary, frankincense, myrrh, trogopterus dung, Sappanwood, native copper, the root of red-rooted salvia, Artemisia anomala, dragon’s blood. Read more…

Uncategorized , , , , , , ,

Deficiency-cold corporeity

December 4th, 2011 cm
{ No Comments }

People with deficiency-cold corporeity is often fat but weak, looking pale and eat little. They like warm and dislike cold, or have a lower temperature. Their tongue and lip are white and light, pulse is slow. Maybe they prefer reading to doing sport because they are introvert. These people have weaker energy and sexual desire, tend to be ill.

This kind of people have stronger munity to cold and damp evil, yin excess and yang deficiency will lead to disease. Such as dampness being viscous and lingering, edema, phlegm and retained fluid, blood stasis and so on.

Basic Theory , , , , , , , , ,

Regimen porridge

December 3rd, 2011 cm
{ No Comments }

If you want your skin smooth and soft, put some Chinese dates into your porridge.

If you want to have a good sleep, put some white waterlily.

If you feel mild lumbago which means weakness of kidney qi, put some chestnuts into porridge.

If you feel weakness of heart which means deficiency of qi, put some longans into porridge.

If you feel dizzy and have lots of sweat, put some job tears into porridge.

If you have cough and dry in lung, put some lily into porridge.

If you feel hot in summer, put some mung bean into porridge which can clear heat and detoxicat Read more…

Uncategorized , , , ,

Pain

December 1st, 2011 cm
{ No Comments }

The mechanism of pain in Chinese medicine is obstruction. It means qi and blood obstruct or go adverse under the influence of many factors. It lead to pain in organs or main and collateral channels.

There are three main factors to cause pain. They are internal cause, external cause and neither internal cause nor external cause.

The properties of pain have two kinds which are cold and hot. Cold is tight which lead to tight pain in collateral channels. Hot pain often lead to red and swell.

Pain also have some difference in qi and blood, deficiency and excess.

As to the specialty of pain, it can divided into stabbing pain, cut pain, distend pain, dull pain and so on.

Basic Theory , , , , , ,