Chinese Medicine Part 2
A choice based on several considerations
According to traditional Chinese medicine, the therapeutic potential of a plant depends on all of its features:
* Color;
* Nature: hot, cold, neutral;
* Taste: sour, bitter, sweet, spicy, salty;
* Configuration: shape, texture, moisture content;
* Its properties: disperse, consolidate, and tone bleed.
In regard to the properties, take the example of a type of arthritis that is aggravated by humidity or rain in the Chinese perspective, this is due to the wet and cold in the meridians. Now the plant Hai Tong Pi, which grows by the sea, has, according to Chinese logic (and the experience of years of practice), owned by disperse the damp and cold. Note also that the property of toning is fundamental in this approach and provides a basis for any therapeutic enterprise. Here, “tone” means enhancing the competence, adaptability and resilience of the organism to adverse factors.
Another fundamental element, the herbs are specifically chosen according to the person being treated. The “good” drug to be such person as the right key opens this lock. To prescribe a plant or a preparation, the practitioner must understand not only the underlying causes of symptoms, but the dynamics of his patient – known as the “field”.
Since in the West are often used Chinese medicine to complement conventional treatments, the practitioner or herbalist trained in TCM should be rigorously and about interactions between herbs and drugs, when there is a.
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