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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) Read the rest of this entry »

In China, herbal medicines are a “national treasure” and are widely used, so both preventive and curative. Recall that the pharmacy is one of the five practices of Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) to maintain or restore health – the four others being acupuncture, the Chinese diet, massage, Tui Na and energy exercises (Qi Gong and Tai Chi). In its country of origin, Chinese medicine is the first preferred approach, it is considered more powerful than acupuncture.

Experienced for over 3000 years, Chinese medicine has a few thousands of substances, of which about 300 are in common use. Although much knowledge that is specific to this stems from a pharmacy practice traditional folk – with variations from one region to another – Chinese doctors have accumulated a large body of data over time. Today, pharmacology and research continue to pursue this science, while contemporary practitioners are developing new treatments, increasingly better adapted to the evils of our time. Read the rest of this entry »

The Goji berries are considered as nutrient pumps, which supposedly does wonders for health, a recent study published in the Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine, to study the test subjects experienced a significant increase in athletic performance, mental focus , improved sleep quality and increased general relaxation.

Some even reported feelings of good health, joy and happiness, goji berries are a fruit of Lycium barbarum plant is also known as Wolfberry.

These goji berries have been used in traditional Chinese medicine for around 1900 years and are part of the Chinese legends say that the fruit is about supernatural powers.

One of the leading manufacturers of goji juice in the world, also includes an ancient Chinese poem on the side of the bottle, there is much emphasis on polysaccharides in Goji content with a wide range of biological effects and benefits health.

As for the quality of manufactured products such as Goji juice is where Read the rest of this entry »

Today, millions of citizens in the PRC qigong practice. In the early morning, from 6 in the morning, parks and gardens are a hive of people who, alone or with the help of a teacher, practice qigong.

By nightfall, the towns are filled with people just on their daily exercises of qigong. Each carries the rhythm that fits your body, everyone is convinced that the continued practice of qigong will bring longevity. And it must be very wrong, for China, despite being a developing country, it has a population whose life expectancy is very close to that of developed countries. Read the rest of this entry »

In China there are two types of massage especially recommended. One is the head massage that usually accompanies the washing, which occur in any hair salon, and is very inexpensive, and enjoyable. The other is the massage of the feet, of varying quality, as in some specialized areas carried out first washing of feet with medicinal herbs, and then, following the theories of reflexology, which ensures that every organ in the body is reflected in a particular place in the soles of the feet, massage your feet thoroughly searching the stimulation of different organs. Read the rest of this entry »

The smallpox vaccine was first used in China by Wang Qingren, early nineteenth century, before they start to use in Europe. Parallel to the medicine develops a pharmacopoeia also unique, since the 365 medicinal herbs mentioned in the Canon of Materia Medica, 2608 reached the number of medicines to the mid eighteenth century. Figure that Western medicine will reach only a few years ago. Today medical studies in China are divided even in Chinese and Western medicine. And in general we can say that the Chinese use its own medicine for chronic diseases and Western medicine for acute. Read the rest of this entry »

Chinese medicine is the most important non-Western medicine, and is the only one of the drugs developed by Western countries that has managed, over history, face the ongoing achievements and advances of Western medical techniques without losing his prestige and even though its foundations, development and results have been questioned.

Moreover, increasingly seen as a Chinese medicine, yet the philosophical and cultural baggage that entails, the ideal complement to Western medicine. Now you could say that Chinese medicine begins where the West and vice versa.

As a general rule you can say that Chinese medicine views the body as a whole, and attributed the disease to the imbalance between the different elements of it, so their treatment, rather than for the healing of a particular symptom, is focused on the restoration of body balance, emphasizing the need for a healthy lifestyle, nutrition, relaxation, breathing exercises and other measures commonly used in the West. Read the rest of this entry »