Posts Tagged "disease"

Stomach Qi

Zhang Jingyue of Ming Dynasty said that we should attach great importance on stomach qi.

When to diagnose the disease, observe stomach qi first. When to cure disease, take care of stomach qi usually. Only stomach qi is in good condition, nothing will be worried about any more.

However, now these doctors do not observe any more, they do not know what is yuan qi and what is stomach qi. What they only know is just fighting against with disease. They always say that people have fire inside body which is the factor of disease. So they cure it to damage stomach qi, and valley qi. There are so many such examples, countless of them.

They do not know when consider to disease and life, which is much heavier? Between healthy qi and pathogenic factors, which is more hurriedly? Read more…

Medicine and Bananas

Western medicine and Chinese medicine are just like two bunches of bananas. One is from west countries, one is from China. Some people pick up a good banana from western bunch and tell us the bananas are totally good, then pick up a bad banana from Chinese bunch and tell us the bananas are totally bad.

They are just take what they need to prove their own view. They just want to show people what they want to show. But the fact is, the two bunches of bananas are both have good ones and bad ones. Just like all coins have their two sides. So when we learn something we should be cautious and have our own thought, especially to what we are unfamiliar with. Read more…

Magical Chinese Medicine

How magical Chinese medicine is! It can know what disease you have only through observing your face and your pulse.

I like going to the Chinese herb shop very much, because I like the smell of Chinese medicine. These days my stomach is not feeling well, when eating some seafood I get skin allergy. So I take some western medicine but it can just treat the external symptom. Then I choose Chinese medicine. Though it has a long time to be effective, but it can cure totally.

I am intent to learn Chinese medicine very much, though it is a little late. Chinese medicine is so useful in our daily life, not only cure diseases, but also make us healthier.

Influencing Factors On Process Of Disease

There are several influencing factors to do something with the process of disease.

First one is corporeity factor. It can enhance the healthy energy in order to accelerate the recovery of disease.

Second is pathogenic factor. Its property will have different effects on the process of disease. If it is stronger, the process of disease will faster.

Third is climate and section. Different climate and section will bring different corporeity and disease.

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Feeling Unwell Means Disease?

It is an old saying that if you often get ill which are not serious, you will not easily get ill which are very serious. According to which is said above, when body is not very comfortable or get some slight symptoms, it is not necessary to take medicine or make a fuss about it. Sometimes, feeling unwell is a quite normal thing for our body condition and during our life. Maybe sometimes, it is just a kind of self-adjusting of our body.

This article will show you some kinds of unwellness to prove it.

Cough

It does not mean you get pneumonia or cold every time when you cough, it can also mean you have some unclear things in your respiratory tract which need a channel to go outside. Cough is a good way to keep unclear things such as dust, secretion, and pernicious gases out of our body. So do not be nervous when you get a cough, it does not always mean a respiratory disease, it does Read more…

Fruit of Siberian Cocklebur

Siberian cocklebur is a kind of herb which can be used to cure many diseases. This herbage plant can be seen almost everywhere of China, because it is easy to grow. When I was young, when I played with other children outside, we often picked the fruit up, threw it to each other as our tiny weapons. As it has many thorns, it is easy to stick on our clothes or hairs. At that time I did not know this small weed was so helpful to us, until recently, did I find its various functions.

The fruit of siberian cocklebur alone, which is the most poisonous part of it, is a common herbal medicine. It can reduce lumbago, cure allergic rhinitis,malaria, parotitis, and ulcer of lower limbs, toothache, etc.

As it is poisonous, patients can not take it without doctors’ advice. Most people think that Chinese medicine is safe to some extent, but it is not correct. So we still have to pay more attention to it.

Origin of Chinese Medicine

According to the research of archaeology, our ancestor had lived and worked in our country for almost more than a million years. During the long period of fighting against animals and searching for food, these primitives acquired some perceptual knowledge of cure and heal wounds. Gradually, they accumulated original knowledge of medicine.

When hunting for food, our ancestor might ate some poisonous plants which caused vomit, nausea, diarrhea, or even death. Read more…

What is Traditional Chinese Medicine?

Chinese medicine, a traditional medicine of China, is a subject which researches physiology, pathology, diagnoses, prevention and cure. It exists for quite a long time, which includes experiences and received knoledges of fighting against diseases. It reflects that our Chinese people in ancient times were really clever.

Chinese medicine contains the main idea of materialistic and dialectic.In other words, it has much to do with philosophy.

Chinese medicine regards general idea to its dominant thought. It is based on physiology and pathology of channels and collaterals. It diagnoses a disease according to syndrome differentiation.