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 →
One place with plants that have different yinyang natures
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 →
Nature of herbs and pertaining meridians
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 →
Relation of yinyang & wuxing
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 →
The Chinese medicine tree
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 →
Why am I attacking TCM
As a qualified modern Chinese medicine (TCM) practitioner, I am like every other TCM practitioners loving the idea of chemical free healing. But I could not accept that we can only copy ancient formulas without knowing how the ancient formulas were created, especially when the formulas do not provide an effective result, with no reasoning... Continue Reading →
What Is Your Fundamental Practice — Chinese Medicine or Yi?
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 →
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