Chinese Health Theraphy

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Huang Di: It is known as the Yellow Emperor attributing the institutionalization of Chinese medicine and acupuncture particularly through the most famous Chinese medical book “Huang Di Nei Jing” or “Treaty of the Yellow Emperor.”

This publication describes a conversation with the foundation of Chinese medicine.

With regard itself to its beginning or emergence, sources are not entirely accurate, some texts say that in remote antiquity the Chinese observed that when someone was sick certain particularly sensitive areas were made, hence the origin or description of the channels Jing . In other cases, said that the Chinese had discovered that the vessel was passing blood, energy should do the same. Read the rest of this entry »

The therapy of music has grown into a modern science, but in China it was first developed. China has sought the secrets of melody and rhythm of the universe for millennia.

The music therapy is a part of Chinese medicine, and both have a continuous relationship intermixed. The music, the theory of yin and yang and the five elements are interconnected. The ancients believed that the essence of music was the Tao — Change of yin and yang, the regulatory factor of life, the tone and mood of the universe.
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Earlier we heard from the properties of different types of Chinese herbs, which come to have proper regard to what, from many centuries ago, the tendency for Chinese herbal medicine.

In this sense, Chinese herbal medicine is part of the ancient medical system of this culture, which has more than 5,000 years old.

It is mainly based on the use of medicinal plants and herbs to treat the whole person as a whole, not only preventing poor mental health but the emotional and physical, and curing them.

It is vital that many therapists tend to combine Chinese herbal medicine with acupuncture, thus achieving a more than optimal.

Yes, you must know that, by itself, herbal medicine is often used only in people who are too weak for acupuncture, because, as we know, it works with the patient’s energy.

Chinese Herbal Medicine

Chinese herbal medicine is based on the popular philosophy of yin and yang, arguing, for there good health is essential to achieve a balance between the two energies.
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Theory of Yin and Yang

The Yin and Yang describe the Yin and Yang the change .Corresponding to the sides of a mountain. On the morning, one side is the shadow and the other in the light of day sun. During the darkness sides reversed. The changes file to light and light to dark. This is nature, in constant transformation. Over time, changes to the Yin Yang and the Yin Yang.
The transformation is a fundamental Leye of nature, as well as Yang and Yin Gravidade. The supplement as opposites. Whenever There Is Within Yin Yang and the Yin Yang Within. One dog not exist Without the outro.
The body and disharmony between changes are Yin and Yang. This helps to Understand the causes and effects of disease.

Qi and Blood – Flow

Traditional Chinese Medicine in the basic principle is the Qi. It examines where he comes from, where you are going and how it flows. Our body is nourished and cleansed by and is subject to as Qi flows. You can think of Qi as all the energies of the body, electrical, chemical, magnetic and matter and energy radiantes.La (physical body and qi), are governed by natural laws like gravity, time, inertia, friction The Yin and Yang. Everything affects us inside and fuera.El Qi must flow. The move shows that Qi exists. Heat teaches that Qi is presente.Existen many types of Qi. The Qi in the meridians, the Qi defender, nourishing Qi, Qi Qi fundamental and ancestral. There is a normal and Qi Qi counterflow, kidney Qi, Qi of the lung and liver qui (each agency has its own Qi).

The Qi and blood nourish the body. Blood moves Qi and Blood is the MDRE of Qi. A normal flow of Qi and blood pontos are essential for good health. When blood or Qi are in failure or blocked, we were sick.

The 7 emotional factors

Mental activity and emotional state have a strong influence on the disease. According to traditional Oriental medicine can summarize the different psychological states in 7 emotions: joy, sadness, anger, anxiety, meditation (reflection, worry and obsession), fear and terror.

The 7 factors are the physiological response of individual stimuli, which under normal circumstances do not cause disease. But if excessive or persistent stimulus, or the individual is hypersensitive to these emotional stimuli, and drastic change can occur leading to persistent disease.

The disturbance caused by the 7 emotional factors can cause dysfunction of the Zang-Fu organs and disrupt the flow of energy and blood. Read the rest of this entry »

Characteristics of the diseases caused by:

WIND

It manifests quickly and lasts a short time nasal obstruction, headache, pain and fatigue and sweat articulate little or absence. It is usually accompanied with symptoms of cold, heat or humidity. Some migrants are manifested by pain and itching of the skin. It can manifest with sudden onset of facial deformation.

COLD

He became febrile diseases. Pain in the body fixed contracture of the superficial vessels. Symptoms of chills and plenty of clear urine.

HEAT

Burning in the body, thirst, fatigue, profuse sweating and spontaneous. Shortness of breath, yellow and scanty urine. When you partner with moisture, there is nausea, chest tightness, anorexia, fatigue of members and watery stools.

HUMIDITY

Feeling of tightness and heaviness in the head. Heaviness of the limbs. Feeling of fullness in the epigastric and chest tightness, nausea and vomiting. Taste sweet and sticky sensation in the mouth. Diseases tend to be prolonged and chronic. Infectivity, epidemic, sometimes.

DRYING

They tend to become vicious fire. They consume much water from the body. Primarily affect the lungs.

NASTY FIRE

Symptoms similar to those produced by heat, but more intense. If the heat is related to the emotional turmoil, fire can become perverse.

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Theory of meridians

The basis of acupuncture are based on the “Theory of Meridians. Which are channels through which flows the vital energy “Qi” and are obstructed in any disease process. The Chinese classified them in 14, of which 12 are bilateral to each side and the remaining 2 in the midline.

The latter are of recent discovery by what is known as “extraordinary meridians” and outside the traditional system of meridians.

As already mentioned, the Qi is the vital energy that gives life and circulates through the meridians. They have a path in the body that are divided into two tracks: one internal and one external. Read the rest of this entry »

Representation

The great contribution of traditional Chinese medicine to the health of humanity is his vision of man as a microcosm that plays in small natural laws of the universe. By understanding this reality and describe the energetic activity of the body, the ancient Oriental physicians were able to devise practices to conserve and restore the physical and mental wellbeing.

So they started to describe the vital energy which they called Chi, and a series of channels through which this energy circulates enabling the various functions. Acupuncture, ear acupuncture and acupressure are splendid therapies based on these principles. Read the rest of this entry »

Definition

According to Dr. Gregorio Marañón “The doctor thinks he knows of Medicine, Medical or know.” Traditional Chinese medicine is not a medicine because it emerges as such. The material is the human being and it is important to know all the activities that the place because we know that they can lead to situations of imbalance.

It is currently treated with acupuncture around 2 billion people around the globe. It is an art or a drug-free recovery. So today is unquestionable because casuistry is handled. It is the oldest and complex world.

Both Allopathic Medicine (Academic Medicine) and complementary medicine are treated with contempt and do not realize they have the same objective and we must work together to recover the full capacity of human beings, because in principle dysfunction, pain and suffering not allow us to develop this basic need and deeper than the joy of being human. Read the rest of this entry »