Homemade Traditional Chinese Medicine ‘Da Mi Wan’ Tutorial

Homemade Traditional Chinese Medicine 'Da Mi Wan' Tutorial

Da Mi Wan (大蜜丸) is one of the commonly used traditional pill forms in TCM. The term “honey pill” refers to pills made from finely powdered medicinal herbs combined with honey as a binding agent. Pills weighing 0.5g or more are called Da Mi Wan, while those weighing less than 0.5g are referred to as … Read more

Traditional Chinese Medicine Formulations for Treating Angina Pectoris: Quick and Convenient Remedies by Dr. Guo Shikui

Traditional Chinese Medicine Formulations for Treating Angina Pectoris: Quick and Convenient Remedies by Dr. Guo Shikui

Dr. Guo Shikui, a veteran TCM practitioner, has accumulated extensive experience in the prevention and treatment of coronary heart disease. He specializes in using methods such as invigorating blood circulation, resolving blood stasis, warming and promoting circulation, and tonifying Qi to treat angina pectoris and myocardial infarction. For moderate to severe angina pectoris, in addition … Read more

Traditional Chinese Medicine Formulations for Angina Pectoris and Myocardial Infarction: Rapid Efficacy and Convenient Administration

Traditional Chinese Medicine Formulations for Angina Pectoris and Myocardial Infarction: Rapid Efficacy and Convenient Administration

▲ Click the “Little Island Formula” above to follow health and wellness Dr. Guo Shikui, an experienced TCM practitioner, has accumulated extensive knowledge in the prevention and treatment of coronary heart disease. He specializes in using methods such as invigorating blood circulation, resolving blood stasis, and warming the channels to treat angina pectoris and myocardial … Read more

How Emotions Harm the Body: Understanding the Seven Emotions in TCM

How Emotions Harm the Body: Understanding the Seven Emotions in TCM

Humans experience seven emotions and desires, which are joy, anger, worry, thought, sadness, fright, and fear. It is normal for a person to feel happy at times and sad at others, or to experience worry and fright. However, excessive emotions can harm the body, primarily affecting the five internal organs.The Huangdi Neijing states: anger harms … Read more

The Impact of Excessive Emotions on the Five Organs

The Impact of Excessive Emotions on the Five Organs

In the process of recognizing the surrounding world or interacting with others, individuals inevitably experience corresponding emotions, which in Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) are referred to as the Seven Emotions: joy, anger, worry, contemplation, sadness, fear, and shock. Under normal circumstances, fluctuations in these emotions have little impact on health and do not lead to … Read more

The Eight Types of Body Constitutions in Traditional Chinese Medicine

The Eight Types of Body Constitutions in Traditional Chinese Medicine

Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) categorizes human body constitutions into nine types. Excluding the relatively healthy Pinghe Tizhi (平和体质, Harmonious Constitution), there are eight other types that fall into the so-called sub-healthy states, namely: Yang Xu Tizhi (阳虚体质, Yang Deficiency Constitution), Yin Xu Tizhi (阴虚体质, Yin Deficiency Constitution), Qi Xu Tizhi (气虚体质, Qi Deficiency Constitution), Tan … Read more

Understanding Cough Types in Traditional Chinese Medicine: Wind-Cold, Wind-Heat, Phlegm-Damp, and Phlegm-Heat

Understanding Cough Types in Traditional Chinese Medicine: Wind-Cold, Wind-Heat, Phlegm-Damp, and Phlegm-Heat

Click the blue words to follow Shengkang Traditional Chinese Medicine Coughing is the most common symptom of the human respiratory tract, belonging to the body’s self-defense mechanism, which is a process of expelling bacteria, viruses, phlegm, and other substances from the respiratory tract. In Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM), coughs are classified into common types such … Read more

Understanding the Complexity of Modern Body Constitutions: The Mixed Constitution in TCM

Understanding the Complexity of Modern Body Constitutions: The Mixed Constitution in TCM

Promoting Traditional Chinese Medicine, Self-Medication for Everyone TCM Eight Principles Diagnosis: Yin-Yang, Exterior-Interior, Cold-Heat, Deficiency-Excess Before reading this article, it is recommended to first read all articles in this collection regarding body constitution health. We provide a brief review of nine types of constitutions: Normal Constitution: Balanced Yin and Yang Constitutional Bias: Cold and Heat … Read more

Differentiation of Deficiency and Excess in Traditional Chinese Medicine

Differentiation of Deficiency and Excess in Traditional Chinese Medicine

The differentiation of deficiency and excess (虚实辩证, xū shí biàn zhèng) is used to summarize and distinguish the strength of the righteous qi and the decline of pathogenic qi. Excess syndrome (实证, shí zhèng) mainly depends on the prevalence of pathogenic qi, while deficiency syndrome (虚证, xū zhèng) primarily depends on the deficiency of righteous … Read more

Application of Deficiency and Excess Differentiation in Clinical Practice

Application of Deficiency and Excess Differentiation in Clinical Practice

Deficiency refers to the deficiency of Zheng Qi (正气), while excess refers to the presence of Xie Qi (邪气). The body can be weak due to Qi deficiency (气虚), Blood deficiency (血虚), Yin deficiency (阴虚), or Yang deficiency (阳虚). Excess conditions can arise from external pathogens such as the six excesses: wind, cold, heat, dampness, … Read more