How to Observe Tongue Coating to Reflect Your Health

How to Observe Tongue Coating to Reflect Your Health

Many of you may have visited a traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) practitioner, right? The TCM doctor first checks your pulse and then asks you to stick out your tongue for examination. Have you ever wondered why these TCM practitioners ask you to show your tongue? If you want to know more about this, read this … Read more

Comprehensive Guide to Tongue Diagnosis: Learn How Your Tongue Reflects Your Health!

Comprehensive Guide to Tongue Diagnosis: Learn How Your Tongue Reflects Your Health!

Question:How can I receive articles like this every day?? Just click on the blue text above the arrow! Introduction: In Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM), diagnosis involves four methods: observation, listening, inquiry, and palpation. These methods combined allow for a more accurate determination of the disease mechanism, especially pulse diagnosis, which is the most immediate and … Read more

Tongue Coating Diagnosis in Traditional Chinese Medicine

The normal color of the tongue coating in healthy individuals is thin and white. This is due to the differentiation of the filiform papillae at the tip of the tongue mucosa into “keratinized trees”. In the gaps between the branches of the “keratinized trees”, there are often shed keratinized epithelium, saliva, bacteria, fungi, food debris, … Read more

The Interactions of the Five Elements in Traditional Chinese Medicine

The Interactions of the Five Elements in Traditional Chinese Medicine

What are the Five Elements? The essence of the Five Elements consists of three aspects. 1. Five basic elements, which belong to the five forms of Yin and Yang. Five Elements and Five Qualities 2. Five basic qualities, the changes of Qi. (1) How does Yin and Yang transform into the Five Elements? The sequence … Read more

The Best Explanation of the Five Elements in Traditional Chinese Medicine

The Best Explanation of the Five Elements in Traditional Chinese Medicine

1. The Five Elements The theory of the Five Elements is the essence of traditional Chinese culture, referring to the five fundamental substances: Wood (growth, flexibility, and smoothness), Fire (warmth, ascension, brightness), Earth (transformation, support, acceptance), Metal (purity, cleanliness, and contraction), and Water (coolness, nourishment, and downward movement). Ancient Chinese people recognized that these five … Read more

The Interactions of the Five Elements: Generating and Overcoming

The Interactions of the Five Elements: Generating and Overcoming

The Source of the Classics, the Origin of the Great Way The Interactions of the Five Elements The I Ching is the root of the Chinese nation Core Taoist Thought: The Way follows Nature, governing without action, living in harmony with nature. The wisdom of the Zhou Yi: Self-improvement and the cultivation of virtue~~~ Spreading … Read more

Food Compatibility and Incompatibility Chart

Food Compatibility and Incompatibility Chart

Incompatible Foods There are many foods that should not be consumed together, as they can cause harm to the body. Today, we have compiled a list of incompatible foods and the adverse effects they may cause. We hope that while enjoying delicious food, everyone can also maintain health and safety. 1. Pork + Water Chestnut: … Read more

Understanding Yin-Yang Balance: The Key to Health in Traditional Chinese Medicine

Understanding Yin-Yang Balance: The Key to Health in Traditional Chinese Medicine

© Zhou Tian Yi Fu Xi Long Zu Follow the Dao, not the person Follow wisdom, not knowledge Follow intention, not words Follow application, not learning Ignite the small sun within your heart Zhou Tian Yi Yin is cold, Yang is hot; Yin is blood, Yang is Qi; When Yin and Yang are balanced, all … Read more

How Should People with Yin Deficiency Nourish Themselves in Summer?

How Should People with Yin Deficiency Nourish Themselves in Summer?

Recently, the entire country has entered a high-temperature state, with temperatures in North China and Northeast China even exceeding 37 degrees Celsius, and some places reaching 40 degrees. In such high temperatures, most people feel particularly uncomfortable, but those with a Yin Deficiency (Yin Xu) constitution tend to feel even worse. So, how should people … Read more

The Enigma of Chinese Medicine: The Regrets of the “Compendium of Materia Medica” and the Unintentional Loss of Miraculous Herbs in History

The Enigma of Chinese Medicine: The Regrets of the "Compendium of Materia Medica" and the Unintentional Loss of Miraculous Herbs in History

Follow Famous TCM Formulas to discuss Traditional Chinese Medicine together! A historical coincidence or mistake often leaves behind irreparable errors, untraceable truths, or perplexing enigmas for future generations… To Practice Medicine or to Be an Official? That Is the Question Those familiar with Traditional Chinese Medicine or Chinese history should know about the book “Compendium … Read more