The word 月 yuè means moon or month and is pronounced like the first two letters in the word "yurt". It is like the character 日 but with an opening of the bottom. This opening of the bottom implies something not solid, or incomplete, because the moon waxes and wanes. As 月 signifies the moon,... Continue Reading →
MSHFD ORGANISATION Prof. Sucharit Bhakdi has setup an organisation “Physicians and scientists for health, freedom and democracy” in Germany to get people involved with health policy making. Diseases are desirable weapons for all governments. They can conquer a nation, divide people, and manipulate the collective spirit of people. So it is also desirable for... Continue Reading →
Abstract There is a need to differentiate old style yi (醫), healing work, from traditional Chinese medicine (TCM). The perspective on life, spirit, body, health and illness in yi are based on the principles of yinyang wuxing. In contrast, TCM tends to favour a modern biomedical view of the body, health and illness. The ancient... Continue Reading →
One of the things the Inner Canon tells us is that to treat illness one must trace the root cause of the illness. For those who practice yi, the root causes of all illnesses invariably lie within the bounds of the yin or yang of the wuxing organs being out of step with the yinyang... Continue Reading →
Most people who access Chinese traditional healing services also tend to access biomedicine services. Thus it might be considered desirable that biomedicine and traditional healing work together and complement each other. To begin with, the question whether yi and biomedicine could work together might suggest some kind of lack in either yi or biomedicine. I... Continue Reading →
I was asked a question after posting the " Nature of herbs and pertaining meridians": why is it that at one place with the same yinyang condition exists plants that have different yinyang natures. Well, although at the same place, but things are created in different times, so they have different yinyang natures. That is... Continue Reading →
Yin attracts yang, and yang attracts yin. Herbs with a yang nature grow in a yin environment, herbs with a yin nature grow in a yang environment. Knowing the habitat and growing conditions of a herb provides clues to the nature of the herb. For example, aloe vera grows in warm places, and grows fast... Continue Reading →
Yinang wuxing is one theory, while the doctrine of yinyang explains the interdependency of yin and yang, for example, hight (yang) can't exist without a ground (low, yin). the doctrine of wuxing further interprets the regulation of the changes between yin and yang that manifest different things and phenomena, for example, water is cold (yin),... Continue Reading →
Paul Unschuld stated:“Traditional Chinese medicine is comparable with a tree that has lost its roots. The wood is still available and can be put to many meaningful uses, yet nourishment and further development no longer spring from its own forces”. Unfortunately, the wood of yinyang wuxing yi had already been exhausted when the old physicians... Continue Reading →
Rhonda Chang 