New Technique: The ‘Leopard Spot’ Cupping Therapy You Didn’t Know About

New Technique: The 'Leopard Spot' Cupping Therapy You Didn't Know About

Click the blue text Follow us New Technique — You Didn’t Know About “Leopard Spot” “Frost descends, autumn drama ends, helplessly entering the cold winter. Gentle winds and fine rain have once been, adding clothes to ward off the cold.” As we are about to enter the last solar term of autumn, temperatures drop sharply, … Read more

Essential Techniques of Tui Na for Regulating Qi and Blood, Unblocking Meridians, and Strengthening Organs

Essential Techniques of Tui Na for Regulating Qi and Blood, Unblocking Meridians, and Strengthening Organs

Continuous Abdominal Massage Prevents All Illnesses In spring and summer, nurture Yang; in autumn and winter, nurture Yin. All things begin to grow, and the climate is variable. Through appropriate adjustments, the Yang energy of spring can be expressed, and metabolic functions can operate normally. This achieves the goals of health maintenance and disease prevention. … Read more

The Impact of Emotional Fluctuations on the Five Organs in Traditional Chinese Medicine: How to Adjust in Daily Life

The Impact of Emotional Fluctuations on the Five Organs in Traditional Chinese Medicine: How to Adjust in Daily Life

One focus, lifelong benefits, free secret recipes! For a long time, Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) has studied the balance between human emotional activities and physiological states. One of the holistic views in TCM is the harmony of the human body, including the harmony between mental states and the external environment. TCM believes that emotional activities … Read more

Characteristics of Emotional Disturbances Leading to Disease

Characteristics of Emotional Disturbances Leading to Disease

The concept of Qiqing (七情, Seven Emotions) is one of the fundamental theories in Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) and is a unique aspect of TCM psychology. The origin of Qiqing is found in the Neijing (《内经》, Inner Canon) with its theories of the “Five Emotions” and “Nine Qi.” During the Song Dynasty, Chen Wuze in … Read more

Traditional Chinese Medicine: Emotions and Disease – Understanding the Seven Emotions and Their Relationship with the Five Organs

Traditional Chinese Medicine: Emotions and Disease - Understanding the Seven Emotions and Their Relationship with the Five Organs

Humans experience seven emotions and six desires, known as the seven emotions, which include joy, anger, worry, thought, sadness, fear, and shock. These seven emotions are related to our internal organs: joy harms the heart, anger harms the liver, thought harms the spleen, worry harms the lungs, and fear harms the kidneys. Any emotion that … Read more

The Concept of Seven Emotions and Internal Injury in Traditional Chinese Medicine

The Concept of Seven Emotions and Internal Injury in Traditional Chinese Medicine

  The Concept of Seven Emotions and Internal Injury   The seven emotions, namely joy, anger, worry, thought, sadness, fear, and shock, represent the external manifestations of the functional activities of the internal organs. Under normal circumstances, these emotions do not cause illness. It is only when sudden, intense, or prolonged emotional stimuli exceed the body’s normal … Read more

Fundamentals of Traditional Chinese Medicine (48) – Internal Injury from the Seven Emotions (with Audio)

Internal Injury from the Seven Emotions has been documented since ancient times, but it was not until the Song Dynasty that Chen Wuze named the seven emotional changes of “joy, anger, worry, thought, sadness, fear, and shock” as the “Seven Emotions” in his book San Yin Ji Yi Bing Zheng Fang Lun, categorizing them as … Read more

The Seven Emotions and Their Impact on Health in Traditional Chinese Medicine

The Seven Emotions and Their Impact on Health in Traditional Chinese Medicine

The seven emotions refer to the normal emotional activities of joy, anger, worry, thought, sadness, fear, and shock. These are physiological and psychological responses of the body’s organs to changes in the internal and external environment, and they generally do not lead to or induce disease. However, we often hear that excessive worry and thought … Read more

Microecological Explanation of the Relationship Between the Lung and Large Intestine

Microecological Explanation of the Relationship Between the Lung and Large Intestine

“The relationship between the lung and large intestine” is a concept derived from traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) theory, which has played an important guiding role in TCM clinical practice and research, although its scientific basis still requires further validation. Recent popular studies on gut microbiota have re-examined the connection between the “lung and large intestine” … Read more

Have You Seen These 6 Scary Tongue Types? Some Strange Illnesses Can’t Be Detected in Hospitals, But Your Tongue Won’t Hide!

Have You Seen These 6 Scary Tongue Types? Some Strange Illnesses Can't Be Detected in Hospitals, But Your Tongue Won't Hide!

The observation of the tongue is an important aspect of diagnosis in TCM, distinct from pulse diagnosis, and can be assessed at a glance. The tongue observation can be divided into tongue quality, tongue shape, and tongue coating. Textbooks and clinical literature detail the observation of the tongue extensively; here, we will focus on several … Read more