The Four Diagnostic Methods Part one

The four diagnostic methods, namely wang (inspection), wen (auscultation and olfaction), wen (inquiry) and qie (pulse-taking and palpation), refer to the four basic methods used in diagnosing disease in traditional Chinese medicine. The human body is an organic whole, local pathological changes Read More

The Conception and Physiological Functions of Body Fluid Part TWO

The clinical manifestations of insufficiency of body fluid are dry mouth and throat, dry and chapped lips, dry and lusterless skin, scanty urine, dry feces, reddish tongue with scanty fluid, and thin and rapid pulse.

Retention of body fluid may be caused by attack of six exogenous Read More

The Conception and Physiological Functions of Body Fluid Part one

Body fluid, known as Jin and Ye in traditional Chinese medicine, is a collective term for all kinds of normal liquids inside the body, including secreta from various organs and tissues, such as gastric juice, intestinal juice, nasal discharge, tears, sweat and urine, etc. Just like qi and blood, Read More

How to Understand Chinese Medicine

In order to make sense of Chinese medicine as a whole, we must consider both the ancient and the modern together, realizing that contemporary developments and writting, which are written in the vernacular Of the international scientific community, perhaps have even a greater applicability to the Read More

The Eight Principles part two

The cold syndrome, including exterior cold, interior cold, asthenia-cold and sthenia- cold, is usually caused by invasion of exogenous cold factors, Or consumption of yang-qi due to endogenous impairment and prolonged illness, or interior exuberance of yin-cold due to excessive taking of uncooked Read More

The Eight Principles part one

The eight principles refer to yin and yang, exterior and interior, cold and heat as well as asthenia (or deficiency) and stheniarf excess). The manifestations of diseases, though Complicated, Read More

Neijing: Foundation of Traditional Chinese Medicine

An epoch-making contribution to medicine was the publication of Neijing or Canon of Medicine.

The content of NeiJing may be analyzed rougbiy in the following.

In anatomy, the internal organs are divided into two kinds: Read More

Functions of qi-Qi transformation

Qi transformation refers to various changes caused by qi’s movement. Metabolism of essence, qi, blood and body fluids, and inter-transformations among them, all are the result a of qi transformation. For example, dlgestion Of food and absorption Of food essence, generation, circulation Read More