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Slight Cold

Slight cold is 23rd of 24 solar terms in winter. In this day, yang of both nature and human body begin to sink inside earth or the public region during cold air coming. The basic of life is protected under earth. That means you should do less and less to keep your energy stay inside your body.

The better yang of earth and human body is protected, the deeper the basic is. Then earth and human will avoid from being attacked by damage or diseases.

How to regimen in slight cold? You should be calm, make your will hide. Wear Read more…

Classify of painkiller

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…

Regimen porridge

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…

Acupuncture point

Acupuncture point in traditional Chinese medicine is the part which can be acupunctured. Most of them are the places concentrated with nerve endings or some thicker nerve fibers. It is the reactive point of disease and stimulated point of remedy. The total number of acupuncture points of the body is 720, and 402 are used in medicine.

According to basic Chinese medicine theory, acupuncture point of the body has three main functions. It is the part that qi of main and collateral channels diffuse to body surface. Meanwhile, it is the reflection of diseases on body surface. And it is also the place to do Read more…

4 Rules to Protect Spleen and Stomach

When people get older and older, the function of spleen and stomach is decreasing day after day. In Chinese medicine, spleen and stomach is hinge of visceral and gas movement. It is the origin of vital energy and blood.

‘Basic move, often greens, less wine, never sad’ is 4 important rules to protect your spleen and stomach.

Basic move

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Oat And Black Sesame Is Good To Constipation

Chinese medicine consider that oat is mild, tastes sweet. It is good to liver and stomach, and it can cure constipation. Especially for olders, it can improve the symptom of yin deficiency and dryness of the intestine.

Black sesame is mild, tastes sweet too. It is good to liver and kidney (kidney defined in Chinese medicine). It can also make the muscle strong, and make marrow grow. It is especially good at fighting against constipation.

How to eat these two food? Read more…

RADIX GLYCYRRHIZAE PREPARATA

Taste: sweet, mild.

Meridian: heart, lung, stomach and spleen.

Function: it is good to the spleen and stomach, and it can also complement energy and smooth the pulse.

Indication: weakness of the spleen and stomach, dyspepsia, tired, weakness, palpitation, slow pulse with irregular intervals and slow and weak pulse with regular intervals. RADIX GLYCYRRHIZAE PREPARATA can detoxicate the toxin of 附子radix aconiti carmichaeli.

Dosage: 1.5~9g.