Australasian Acupuncture and Chinese Medicine Annual Conference Dr. Rhonda Chang Most of us call ourselves practitioners of Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM), but many of us aren't fully aware that so-called TCM has different theoretical foundations to how Chinese medicine was practiced before the communist revolution. To make delineation, I want to call Chinese medicine before... Continue Reading →
A yinyang wuxing guide to treating burns – the good oil
If you happen to attend a first aid course, they’ll tell you in the case of a burn to put the affected area under running cold water to cool the heated tissues. This may soothe the pain while the cold water is running but, from the perspective of yinyang wuxing healing, actually, it may cause... Continue Reading →
Yinyang wuxing
When I used to run a Chinese healing clinic, sometimes people would ask me: “What’s your religion?” And I’d answer yinyang wuxing. The person would then ask, “Is there such a religion?” Well, maybe not, at least not in the way that one usually associates with religions such as Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, and Buddhism. There... Continue Reading →