Traditional Chinese Medicine, also known as TCM, includes a range of traditional medicine practices originating in China
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…
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…
The relationship between yin and yang has two kinds. When yin is strong, yang is weak, or when yang is strrong, and yin is weak. These are the imbalances between the two onditions. And as conditions change constantly, it will come to the opposite side of the imbalance, which is called alternative predominance between yin and yang.
Our ancestors explained some climate change and body change with the help of this theory. If one year is usually rain and make the weather so wet, then next year will turn to be dry instead. So does the body change. If a person suffer a terrible diarrhea and his hands and feet are totally cold, which means pathogenic factors is strong. It belongs to asthenia cold syndrome. Then healthy energy is strong than pathogenic factors, these syndromes will disappear. And after that pathogenic factors will be strong, these will occur again. This condition of circulation is called alternativec predominace between yin and yang.
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.
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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