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The Theories of Disease Etiology in Traditional Chinese Medicine: Dietary Imbalance and Work-Rest Balance (Internal Injury Causes)

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The Theories of Disease Etiology in Traditional Chinese Medicine: Dietary Imbalance and Work-Rest Balance (Internal Injury Causes)

This article is summarized and organized based on the “Lecture Notes on Basic Theories of Traditional Chinese Medicine” by Li Dexin, published by Renwei Press.1. Dietary ImbalanceDietary imbalance refers to irregular eating habits, unclean food, and excessive preferences in diet, which are pathogenic factors that deviate from normal dietary practices.Dietary imbalance can lead to the … Read more

Theories of Disease Etiology in Traditional Chinese Medicine: Internal Injury Causes – Seven Emotions (Internal Injury)

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Theories of Disease Etiology in Traditional Chinese Medicine: Internal Injury Causes - Seven Emotions (Internal Injury)

This article is summarized and organized based on the “Lectures on Basic Theories of Traditional Chinese Medicine” by Li Dexin, published by Renwei Press.The causes of internal injury are symmetrical to those of external pathogens, referring to pathogenic factors that directly harm the organs due to emotional or behavioral irregularities, including excessive emotions, overwork, indulgence, … Read more

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

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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, contemplation, sadness, fear, and shock, which are responses of human consciousness to external stimuli. The Seven Emotions are closely related to the functional activities of the body’s organs. The Seven Emotions are categorized under the five organs, represented by joy, anger, contemplation, … Read more

The Seven Emotions as Causes of Internal Injury

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The Seven Emotions as Causes of Internal Injury

The Seven Emotions as Causes of Internal Injury The seven emotions refer to joy, anger, worry, contemplation, sadness, fear, and shock, which are normal emotional activities and represent the human mind’s response to external stimuli. The seven emotions are closely related to the functional activities of the body’s organs. They are categorized under the five … Read more

Inheritance of Traditional Chinese Medicine: Basic Theory Lesson 23 (Heat Pathogen of the Six Excesses)

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Inheritance of Traditional Chinese Medicine: Basic Theory Lesson 23 (Heat Pathogen of the Six Excesses)

Editor’s Note: When Yang is excessive, it leads to heat, which injures Qi, and Qi injury causes pain. Today, we will discuss the last of the six external pathogenic factors, the heat pathogen. The heat pathogen mainly arises from two aspects: first, external pathogens, with the most discussed in TCM being the warm pathogen or … Read more

Etiology Theory (Part 1): External Pathogenic Factors and Internal Injuries. Six Excesses, Seven Emotions, Diet, Work and Rest

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Etiology Theory (Part 1): External Pathogenic Factors and Internal Injuries. Six Excesses, Seven Emotions, Diet, Work and Rest

The concept and classification of etiology: The causes that lead to diseases in the human body are referred to as etiology, also known as “pathogenic factors,” “pathogens” (historically referred to as “disease sources”), and “evil pathogens.” Diseases are pathological processes caused by pathogenic factors under certain conditions, including the forms of onset, pathogenesis, development patterns, … Read more

Factors of Internal Injury Leading to Disease

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Factors of Internal Injury Leading to Disease

Internal injury leading to disease refers to the activities of emotions or daily life that deviate from normalcy, exceeding the body’s self-regulatory capacity, directly harming the organs, qi, blood, yin, and yang, resulting in illness. The factors of internal injury leading to disease are contrasted with external pathogenic factors, as the disease arises from within, … Read more

Notes from the Master: The Theory of Spleen and Stomach Injury in the ‘Golden Mirror of Medicine’

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Notes from the Master: The Theory of Spleen and Stomach Injury in the 'Golden Mirror of Medicine'

Internal injury diseases refer to a category of diseases caused by internal factors, as opposed to external pathogenic factors such as the six excesses. The concept of internal injury diseases first appeared in the ‘Huangdi Neijing’ (Yellow Emperor’s Inner Canon), with phrases like “overwork leads to shortness of breath and sweating, affecting both internal and … Read more

Fundamental Theories of Traditional Chinese Medicine: Causes of Internal Injury

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Fundamental Theories of Traditional Chinese Medicine: Causes of Internal Injury

Causes of Internal Injury The causes of internal injury, also known as internal damage, refer to pathogenic factors that arise from emotional disturbances or behaviors that exceed the body’s self-regulatory capacity, directly harming the internal organs and leading to disease. These include internal injuries caused by the seven emotions, improper diet, and imbalance between work … Read more

The Internal Injury Basis of Exogenous Diseases

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The Internal Injury Basis of Exogenous Diseases

| Introduction: The “Essentials of Cold Damage” states: “The six meridians are affected by cold damage, and the symptoms vary according to the individual. The underlying causes are not the same, leading to diverse manifestations.” This indicates that although the external pathogens are the same, their manifestations differ in different bodies. The reason lies in … Read more