Posts Tagged "meridian"

Do Not Sleep With Wet Hair

August 4th, 2010 cm
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Some people have the habit of having shower before go to bed, then sleep with the wet hair. Then after getting up the next day, they will feel tired and headache and catch a cold and have a runny nose.

That is because yang qi of body is weakest in midnight. So it is the weakest time of immunity. Wash hair before going to sleep will leave some water in scalp which make yang qi coagulate with the cold water. If you often do like that, you will got qi-stagnancy and blood stasis, and your meridian will be blocked. It is easy to get ill if you sleep after washing your hair with cold and wet. Then you will feel numb of your scalp during night, and the next morning the numb Read more…

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Washing Feet With Hot Water Is Good To Your Kidney

July 20th, 2010 cm
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Experts suggest that if you want to keep your kidney in good health, you should wash your feet at nine o’clock in the evening.

Chinese medicine consider that each time has its own effect on people’s health. So nine o’clock in the evening is the moment that kidney meridian, blood and energy is weak. So washing your feet at this time is good to stimulate circulation. Wash your feet with hot water can stimulate your energy.

Meanwhile, it can make you comfortable and reflex after a busy day. Read more…

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RADIX GLYCYRRHIZAE PREPARATA

July 12th, 2010 cm
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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.

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Lichee Can Generate Excessive Internal Heat

June 12th, 2010 cm
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Lichee is a kind of delicious fruit in summer. Once a famous poet said, if I can eat 300 lichees everyday I will go nowhere forever.

Lichee belongs to meridian of spleen and liver, it can generate liquid and blood of the body, antidiarrhea, make body and organ warm, make engergy going more smooth and so on. So it can cure anaemia, diarrhea, deficiency of vital energy, gastric cold, hiccup and so on. All these above can be seen in Compendium of Materia Medica.

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Medicinal Liquor(to be continued)

May 3rd, 2010 cm
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In ancient times of China, alcohol is also a kind of medicine except a kind of beverage.

Alcohol is made of grain and distillers yeast. It smells sweet, tastes spicy, with the functions of restoring blood flow, improving the body, smoothing joints and bones, humidifing the skin, eliminating dampness inside the body. As a result of so many advantages of alcohol, it is called the number one of all drugs. Still, the ancient Chinese character ”medicine” is made up of Chinese character “alcohol”, that means “alcohol” is a part in “medicine”. This demonstarates the close relationship between alcohol and medicine.

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Interesting Initiator In Chinese Medicine

April 23rd, 2010 cm
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In Chinese medicine, precious jade can be used as initiator. That is really wired, but it is true that jade has the function of curing disease. It can be seen in shennong' s Herbal classic and An Outline Treatise of Medical Herbs that jade is salty and cold, which can relieve whiny mood and anger, do good to heart and lung, make hair grow well, make people feel quiet, blood flow smooth, ear and eye more bright and so on.

Initiator makes great importance in prescription and decoction. Chinese medicine considers meridian as the channel of human body. Energy and blood reach all places of the body such as surface and Read more…

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Inner Canon of the Yellow Emperor

March 25th, 2010 cm
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Inner Canon of the Yellow Emperor includes two parts, one is called Ling Shu(灵枢), and the other is called Su Wen(素问). Each of them has 9 volumes, and each volumes has 9 articles. That means both Ling Shu and Su Wen has 81 articles respectively.

Inner Canon of the Yellow Emperor finished during Chunqiu period. It includes the relationship between human and nature, physiology, pathology, diagnose, treatment and prevention.

Su Wen tells us something about viscera and bowels, meridian, etiology and mechanism，symptom，diagnose，treatment and acupuncture.

Ling Shu contains not only almost the same as Su Wen， but it still contains shu point, acpuncture tool, how to acupuncture, and principle of treatment.

Both of the books present the theory of yin-yang and five elments（mental, wood, water, fire and soil）.This theory emphasizes the importance of a right time, a proper condition and a good relationship. It shows that our human beings can not live alone without environment.

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