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,...

How They Work Acupuncture Theory Getting the Point Acupuncture is a complete medical system originating in China thousands of years ago. Today it is used throughout the world to treat hundreds of different ailments. Acupuncture involves the insertion of hair-thin...

Theory of the Organs The Zhang / Fu  In Traditional Chinese Medicine the internal organs have the same names as those we know, like the Lungs, Heart, Spleen, Liver, and Kidneys. But aside from the names being the same, the...

Ba Gang Bian Zheng (The 8 Principles) The Eight Principles are YIN / YANG pairs of conditions which assess the location and nature of the illness affecting the mind or body. Once we know the nature and location of the disharmony,...

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...