TCM for Menopause
Understanding the TCM perspective of menopause requires you to forget all about hormones.
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Chinese Medicine for Common Ailments
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Herbs for Malaria
Scientists have discovered that the Chinese herb QING HAO (artemisia) or sweet wormwood), long used for malarial disorders in TCM, works better than currently used pharmaceutical antimalarials.Read now -
Herbs for Appetite Loss
Very rarely is a loss of appetite a sign of a serious medical problem. In most cases, appetite loss is caused by a digestive disorder known as . . .Read now -
Herbs That Kill Lice
This combination of two Chinese herbs, used according to the following directions, stops the itching and kills lice and nits overnight.Read now -
Herbs for Insomnia and Restless Sleep
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The spirit is known as the ‘Shen’. It resides in the Heart.
When Heat gathers in the chest usually due to stress or failure to ‘let go’, the ‘Shen’ becomes unsettled. We experience this as restlessness, agitation, or problems sleeping. . .
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Chinese Herbs for Injury, Surgery, and Trauma
Read nowThree Stages of Injury
Injuries progress through three stages. The first is up to two days after the injury. The second stage lasts a few weeks. All injuries older than a month are considered old injuries. Treatment differ considerably for each stage.
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Herbs for Inflammation
The modern concept of inflammation closely parallels the TCM concept of “heat”. However the concept of heat in TCM is far more developed and better understood than the idea of inflammation is in modern Western thought. . .Read now -
Herbs for Immunity
In the West, the idea of an immune system is a recent idea, however in China, doctors were strengthening the defensive energy (wei qi) over a thousand years ago.Read now -
The Truth About Irritable Bowel Disease
IBS is a symptom, not a disease, and must first be diagnosed according to the principles and logic of Traditional Chinese Medicine to be treated.Read now
