Unveiling Traditional Chinese Medicine: How Emotions Lead to Illness

Unveiling Traditional Chinese Medicine: How Emotions Lead to Illness

For listeners who enjoy audiobooks, you can click below to listen. The “Seven Emotions” refer to the human mental responses to external stimuli. In Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM), appropriately expressing emotions is beneficial for health, but repression or excessive expression can harm the body. To address emotional issues, we must cultivate our hearts and minds, … Read more

Treating Damp-Heat Constitution: Unique TCM Formulas!

Treating Damp-Heat Constitution: Unique TCM Formulas!

湿·热 damp and hot 2019/11/20 Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) categorizes body constitutions into nine types: Harmonious, Qi Deficiency, Yin Deficiency, Yang Deficiency, Damp-Heat, Qi Stagnation, Phlegm-Damp, Blood Stasis, and Special Constitution. The Harmonious constitution is considered normal, while the other eight are classified as imbalanced constitutions, indicating a sub-healthy state. This article primarily discusses the … 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

Distinguishing Between Damp-Heat and Damp-Cold in Traditional Chinese Medicine

Distinguishing Between Damp-Heat and Damp-Cold in Traditional Chinese Medicine

Traditional Chinese Medicine Click the blue text above to follow us Dampness is a common physical condition we often discuss. When symptoms such as dizziness, heaviness in the limbs, loss of appetite, and a thick, greasy tongue coating appear, we usually conclude that the individual has excessive dampness in the body and begin recommending various … Read more

Zhao Shaoqin: My Experiences in Treating Damp-Heat Diseases

Zhao Shaoqin: My Experiences in Treating Damp-Heat Diseases

【Disclaimer】The content is sourced from the internet. If there is any infringement, please contact us for removal! The audio is synthesized by software; please forgive any poor experience. Source: Yijian Jingfang In my clinical practice, I categorize damp-heat diseases into four stages based on the amount of dampness and the degree of obstruction: Damp Obstruction, … Read more

Differences Between Spleen-Stomach Damp-Heat and Liver-Gallbladder Damp-Heat

Differences Between Spleen-Stomach Damp-Heat and Liver-Gallbladder Damp-Heat

Damp-heat is a common issue faced by many individuals, leading to conditions such as gastric diseases, eczema, hair loss, prostatitis, vaginitis, cholecystitis, and more. The underlying cause of these diseases is often excessive damp-heat in the body, with individuals of damp-heat constitution making up about one-quarter of the general population. Among the damp-heat syndromes, the … Read more

The Distinction Between Spleen-Stomach Damp-Heat and Liver-Gallbladder Damp-Heat: 4 Strategies for Prevention

The Distinction Between Spleen-Stomach Damp-Heat and Liver-Gallbladder Damp-Heat: 4 Strategies for Prevention

⬆⬆⬆ Before reading, please click the blue text above “Yu Qu Yu Qiu”, then click Follow, and set a star in the upper right corner. This way, you can receive the latest content daily, with free subscriptions. Please feel free to follow. The so-called Spleen-Stomach Damp-Heat (Pi Wei Shi Re), also known as Middle Jiao … Read more

Differentiating and Regulating Spleen-Stomach and Liver-Gallbladder Damp-Heat: TCM Insights

Differentiating and Regulating Spleen-Stomach and Liver-Gallbladder Damp-Heat: TCM Insights

As the weather gradually warms and rainfall increases, the issue of damp-heat in adults becomes more pronounced. Damp-heat is considered one of the six evils in traditional medicine. The six evils include wind, cold, damp, heat, dryness, and fire. In terms of constitution, traditional medicine categorizes individuals into nine types, and various signs indicate that … Read more

Distinguishing Between Damp-Heat and Damp-Cold

Distinguishing Between Damp-Heat and Damp-Cold

Dampness is a common physical condition we often discuss. When symptoms such as dizziness, heaviness in the limbs, loss of appetite, and a thick, greasy tongue coating appear, we usually conclude that the individual has excessive dampness in the body and start recommending various damp-dispelling products. However, did you know that in Traditional Chinese Medicine … Read more

Effective Remedies for Wind-Cold Common Cold: Four Simple Steps!

Effective Remedies for Wind-Cold Common Cold: Four Simple Steps!

Wind-Cold Common Cold is usually caused by exposure to cold, with typical early symptoms including sneezing and a runny nose. This article introduces four simple, convenient, and effective remedies for the early stage of a Wind-Cold common cold, which are safe, environmentally friendly, economical, and have no side effects from injections or medications. First Remedy: … Read more