Traditional Chinese Medicine, also known as TCM, includes a range of traditional medicine practices originating in China
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.
Are these all right as modern view? Let us have a look at it. Read more…
Before the spring and autumn period our Chinese are less or never to have obesity and gastro-intestinal conditions. Some consider that is because people do not have chair at that period they only can sit on their knees, may be this kind of sit position is good to people’s health.
Though it is just an assume, sit on knees is really proper to these lazy people, especially after meal. Sit down for work or in sofa to have a rest after meal is bad to our health. Then our stomach and intestinal are going to out of work, which will lead to digestive disorder and get fatter and fatter. Sit on knees is helpful to stomach movement and prevent from getting fat in the belly. Read more…
Immune Theory has a long history in Chinese medicine, that is a method called using poison to cure poisonous. In the oldest medicine book Yellow Emperor there is a theory that only poisonous drug can cure disease. And the earliest outrunner to make it into practice is a Taoist whose name is Ge Hong. As you know, Taoists are interested in training of active substance concoct pills of immortality camy oamy.
Ge Hong, also called Zhi Chuan and the other name Pu Zi. He likes reading medicine books and pellet books when he is little children. And when he grow up, he concoct pills as well as Read more…
In Chinese traditional culture it is a saying that getting fat in autumn. That means eating more nutritious food in autumn to make body healthy. But even getting fat does not mean eating everything such as meat and fish, nor does it mean necessary to everyone. The point is we should eat scientificly and healthly.
Adjust spleen and stomach first
People will have the phenomenon of weaken function of spleen and stomach in summer due to Read more…
Our Chinese has an old legend of “Chinese medicine occurs after Shen Nong taste hundreds of plants”. It reflects the fact of the fight between our ancestor and nature and disease, and also the history process of finding herb medicine and accumulating knowledge.
At the beginning of primitive communes, as a result of low productivity, people can not plant crop but only gather food and hunting animals. As the process of gathering fruit, seed and rootstalk, some of them may eat some poisonous food by mistake which will lead to vomit, diarrhea, coma and even death. For example, taken rhubarb may lead to a diarrhea while they may taken ginger to relieve their pain of diarrhea too.
Through a long period investigation, people become to know which plant is good for people and which is not. And then, due to the use of bow and arrow, people start to find some therapy function of animal by hunting and fishing.
Both Chinese medicine and classic literature are great treasures of Chinese people. Tough they are of different subjects and have its own way to develop, they still have impacts of each other for quite a long time.
The most important point is that Chinese medicine provides plenty of materials for classic literature, because Chinese medicine is not only a developed knowledge, but also a useful skill.
Take daily diet as an example, many food can be used as drug too. So people can adjust their diet, choosing the best kind of food, eating something or not, in order to keep healthy and avoid disease. An experienced Chinese can choose the proper food for their constitution with no difficulty.
Literature is based on the given background of each period. Since Chinese medicine is closely-related with people’s daily life, it definitely can be seen widely in literatures. There are lots of poems wrote about herbs. Read more…
There was a famous doctor called Fu Qingzhu in Qing Dynasty. One day, he went to see a wife who was sad and sick after a little quarrel with her husband. The husband was so regreted that he said sorry to his wife again and again and again, but the wife was still in bad condition and hardly to recover.
Doctor Fu asked what happened and then picked a little stone, and gave it to the husband. He told the husband to boil it with mild fire as initiator. And he must add water to it when it was boiling every moment without leaving.
The husband listened to the doctor. When he came back, he began to boil the stone day after Read more…
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.
Astronomy is a subject of celestial bodies movement. In ancient times, Chinese consider that vitality is the origin of nature, and all things in universe are made up of vitality. This view is quoted in Chinese medicine too. It is said in the Yellow Emperor: energy, which is the same as vitality, is the basic part of human body, and the movement of energy is the symbol of life.
Another part of ancient astronomy is constellation. It contains 28 stars, 7 at east, 7 at west, 7 at south and 7 at nouth. Chinese medicine think that the movement of defensive energy in body is corresponding to the movement of 28 stars, moving according to the moving rules of the 28 star in the sky. There are 28 pulse conditions, which are corresponding to the 28 stars too. From these pulse conditions, we can know the health condition of the body.
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