Comprehensive Guide to Nourishing the Five Organs: Heart, Liver, Spleen, Lungs, and Kidneys

Comprehensive Guide to Nourishing the Five Organs: Heart, Liver, Spleen, Lungs, and Kidneys

The main organs in our body are the Heart (Xin), Liver (Gan), Spleen (Pi), Lungs (Fei), and Kidneys (Shen). As long as we take good care of them, our body will be in great shape. Below, we share a comprehensive guide to nourishing the five organs for everyone to understand. 1. Nourishing the Heart 1. … Read more

Highly Effective Gua Sha Technique to Remove Chronic Dampness and Toxins from the Body

Highly Effective Gua Sha Technique to Remove Chronic Dampness and Toxins from the Body

Dampness has the greatest impact on the body, encapsulated in the word “blockage”: Blocked in the scalp – hair loss, oily hair Blocked on the face – greasy complexion, acne Blocked in the abdomen – “love handles”, abdominal fat Blocked in the legs – edema, athlete’s foot The severity of the body’s “blockage” correlates directly … Read more

Understanding the Seven Emotions and Their Impact on Health

Understanding the Seven Emotions and Their Impact on Health

Supported by Expert: Gao Zhiying, Associate Chief Physician of the Acupuncture Department, Changsha Traditional Chinese Medicine Hospital The seven emotions, namely joy, anger, worry, thought, sadness, fear, and shock, are changes in emotional states that belong to psychological pathogenic factors. Under physiological conditions, emotional changes are normal responses of the body to various external stimuli, … Read more

Understanding the Pathogenic Wind in Traditional Chinese Medicine

Understanding the Pathogenic Wind in Traditional Chinese Medicine

Six Excesses Diagnosis and Differentiation The Six Excesses refer to Wind, Cold, Heat, Dampness, Dryness, and Fire. Today, we will discuss “Wind Excess”. 1. Wind Excess SyndromeWind Excess Syndrome refers to the invasion of Wind evil into the body’s surface and meridians, leading to dysfunction of the defensive Qi, presenting symptoms that align with the … Read more

Understanding the Mixed Cold-Heat Constitution in Traditional Chinese Medicine

Understanding the Mixed Cold-Heat Constitution in Traditional Chinese Medicine

Click on the “blue text” to follow us Medical Guidance Dr. Hu Tao, Deputy Chief Physician of the Traditional Chinese Medicine Department at Guangzhou First People’s Hospital, welcomes you to continue following us. In TCM theory, there are concepts of “heat” and “cold” that are easy to understand, such as heat in summer and cold … Read more