Understanding the Six Excessive Evils: How Nature’s Elements Become Pathogenic (Differentiation of Disease Causes)

Understanding the Six Excessive Evils: How Nature's Elements Become Pathogenic (Differentiation of Disease Causes)

Promoting Traditional Chinese Medicine, Self-Medication for Everyone In spring, there are a hundred flowers; in autumn, the moon; in summer, a cool breeze; in winter, snow. If one has no trivial matters on their mind, it is indeed a good time in the human world. From the Huangdi Neijing: “Wind predominates movement, heat predominates swelling, … Read more

Learn to Differentiate Cold and Heat to Avoid Major Mistakes During the Pandemic!

Learn to Differentiate Cold and Heat to Avoid Major Mistakes During the Pandemic!

With Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) present, one can feel at ease and unafraid. Whether it is herbal decoctions, patent medicines, dietary therapy, or external treatments such as moxibustion, gua sha, hot compresses, foot baths, or tuina, everyone has made full use of TCM during this pandemic, allowing many TCM enthusiasts to resolve their health issues … Read more

A Detailed Interpretation of the Concepts of Exterior and Interior in Shang Han Lun

A Detailed Interpretation of the Concepts of Exterior and Interior in Shang Han Lun

TCM Book Club Issue 1168 Daily issues to accompany the growth of TCM practitioners IIntroduction: Last time I read Mr. Ke’s article on the dosage of herbs in the “Shang Han Lun” and “Jin Gui Yao Lue”, I was deeply impressed by his academic attitude. Today’s article on the detailed interpretation of the “Shang Han … Read more

Yin-Yang Thinking: Identifying All Forms of Yang Deficiency and Yin Deficiency! (Including 17 Points of Yin-Yang Differentiation)

Yin-Yang Thinking: Identifying All Forms of Yang Deficiency and Yin Deficiency! (Including 17 Points of Yin-Yang Differentiation)

Identifying All Forms of Yang Deficiency For individuals with Yang deficiency, Yin energy must naturally be abundant (the term Yin energy refers to the abundance of water, which is blood. When blood is abundant, Qi is weak, leading to Yang deficiency). Although all symptoms of fire may appear externally (this fire is termed “deficiency fire,” … Read more