The color of the Chinese medicine point of view:Evaluation of Facial Color

When you are feeling off-balance or have a specific disharmony, facial colors offer clues to the nature and the severity of the imbalance.

There are several different methods of facial diagnosis: Korean, Japanese, Worsley School, even macrobiotic. The following evaluation of facial colors Read More

The Extra points

Extra points are experiential points with specific names and definite locations, but are not attributed to the fourteen meridians. They are effective in the treatment of certain diseases. Although scattered over the body , they are still related to the meridians system. Some extra points are Read More

The Ashi Points

Ashi Points are also called “reflexing points”, “unfixed points” or “tender spots”. Chapter 13 of Miraculous Pivot says, “Tender spots can be used as acupuncture points”, and this was the primary method for point selection in early acupuncture and moxibustion treatments. Without Read More

Diagnosing Methods of Chinese Medicine

In Chinese medicine, doctors use various methods to get full and detailed information about the patients and to guide their treatment, via observing, listening, smelling, and touching. They also talk to the patients or their relatives.

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What are the foot note?

First, pay attention to moderate temperature (the optimum temperature 40 ℃ -45 ℃), would benefit from the water temperature by foot and gradually adapt to the heat.

Second, the time is appropriate in 30-40 minutes, only to maintain a certain temperature and time to ensure that the Read More

What is a halo-pin?

Normal acupuncture, in addition to the patients when the needle into a little minor pain, acupuncture, in part or in the body can be sour, Ma, heavy, bulging or feel comfortable, it is generally acceptable. Only in the course of acupuncture is the spirit of fatigue, dizziness, nausea Yu Tu, or Read More

Traditional Chinese Dietotherapy

Guided by fundamental theories of traditional Chinese medicine, traditional Chinese dietotherapy (TCD) is a specialty that is in concerns with the study of how to make good use of foods and natural nutriments as well as Chinese materia medica to preserve health, prevent and heal diseases, quicken Read More

No joke: Laughter may be the best medicine

EIJING, Jan. 17 — It’s been said laughter is the best medicine, but no one has yet to prove it. Now a Japanese scientist is unlocking the secrets of the funny bone, which he believes can cheer up people’s genes.

Geneticist Kazuo Murakami has teamed up on the study with Read More