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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 »

What is TCM?

Traditional Chinese Medicine is a body of knowledge with a wide range of therapeutic resources, whose arrangements are based on the theory that explain the relationship of Yin – Yang and Five Elements, both are an approach to the universe with a generic projection.

How do you organize the Traditional Chinese Medicine?

According to the strategy of treatment is classified as:

Outside traditional medicine:
Acupuncture
Massage
Moxibustion
Exercises Read the rest of this entry »

Formerly, the monks were responsible for the health of the village. Visited families on a regular basis and through different techniques kept the good health of the inhabitants, who reciprocated those services through barter.

The oldest book of Traditional Chinese Medicine is the Huangdi Neijing (Canon of Internal Medicine), written as a dialogue between the Yellow Emperor and his physician. Here we find the healing properties of pomegranate and rhubarb. KIWANG-TI Emperor used to bathing with these herbs for their joint pains. Read the rest of this entry »

Behind the veil of legend, the beginnings of Chinese herbal medicine seem to go back over 5,000 years, but what is really known for sure is that Chinese knowledge about the use of healing substances vegetable, animal and mineral, began introduced progressively in Europe from the second century BC

Surprisingly, however, that in the days before those dates, the use of many similar preparations already existed in Chinese and Egyptian medicine. Opium and Chinese rhubarb (both marketed in other countries at the time of Christ, cinnamon, hidnocarpo oil (also used in ancient India) and mercury were commonly used in both traditions. Read the rest of this entry »