A Patient's Guide to Chinese Medicine (excerpts and commentary)

These medical treasures are among the oldest, safest, and most reliable in the annals of Chinese medicine. They are as useful and timely now as they have ever been. 

Over the years we hear reports of contamination or mislabeling of imported Chinese herbal products. Some of these stories turn out to be exaggerated, but others need to be taken seriously.

Massage and Body Work Touching the Body, Moving the Qi  Massage was a precursor of acupuncture as the ancients learned to make the qi respond to touch and to the qi of the practitioner. Through millennia of massage and observation,...

Acupuncture & Moxabustion:  Where There's Pain There's No Flow.Where There's Flow, There's No Pain Acupuncture Theory Acupuncture is a complete medical system originating in China thousands of years ago. Today it is used throughout the world to treat hundreds of...

Theory of the Organs The Zhang / Fu  In Traditional Chinese Medicine the internal organs have the same names as those we know. However in TCM, the organs are more than flesh and blood. They also perform tasks with QI...

Ba Gang Bian Zheng: The Eight Principles: Differentiating Disease And Understanding Its Nature The Eight Principles are four YIN / YANG pairs of conditions which assess the location and nature of the illness. Once this is known, the treatment plan is...

WU XING: The Five Elements, and the Correspondences A Storm in the Mountains, and the Valley is Flooded A Unique Way to Understand How Things Interact WU XING, has been translated in many different ways.  It's been called the Five Elements, Five Phases, Five Agents, and other names.  Viewing...

Where there's pain, there's no flow When There's Flow, There's No Pain Many people receiving acupuncture for the first time are surprised by the placement of the needles.  Needles are often placed in the extremities for reasons that seem less than...