Heart is the most important organ inside our body. It also belongs to the five internal organs in Chinese medicine. Heart disperse blood to the whole body, and in Chinese medicine, all pulse are come from it.
If you have some symptom such as palpitation, sense of suppression in the chest, insomnia, forgetful, irritable, or you have some pain at precordial region, it is time to tonify your heart immediately.
Here is a common method to do to protect your heart. And the name of it is step on mung beans.
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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…
As you know banana is good fruit because it can prevent from Alzheiner’s disease, hypokalemia and constipation. And it can prevent depression so it is also called happy fruit.
However, it doesn’t mean banana fit for all people to eat. In Chinese medicine, people of cold constitution had better avoid from eating banana too much.
In Chinese medicine, banana belongs to cold food, it will make your body cold so people with cold constitution who often feel weak and cold should eat less banana. If you often feel Read more…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
