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.
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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…
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.
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.
Yingxiang acupuncture point is at the edge of wing of nose. It is an acupuncture point which can enhance blood circulation of face, make skin smooth and wet, and it can decrease wrinkle.
You can massage the two sides of wing of nose. The hollow place is the right point to find. Use finger pulp of your index finger to massage of circles for one minute everyday. Stick to several days, you will find some changes happen on your body and you may feel you look younger than before.
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…
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…
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…
