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Salty Taste in Chinese medicine
Too much food with the Salty taste in Chinese medicine will make you ill. But you need some! Which foods do they mean?
Spicy Taste in Chinese medicine
The spicy taste in Chinese medicine adds lightness and energy to your diet, helping your lungs work better. You need some, but not too much!
Sweet Taste in Chinese medicine
Foods classified as having a sweet taste in Chinese medicine are vital for health. But too little or too much ‘sweet’ food leads to disease.
Taste in Chinese Medicine
Taste in Chinese medicine describes, like short-hand, what foods and herbs can do for your health. Discover the right balance!
Diagnose Atrial Fibrillation with Chinese medicine
Diagnose atrial fibrillation with Chinese medicine. Too much or too little yang and sometimes yin or blood deficiency.
War and Peace, Yin and Yang
In War and Peace, Yin and Yang offer insight. Not that you’ll always like what it tells you. But it may help you define priorities.
Food Accumulation – Constipation – baby, child, even teens
Food Accumulation explains what happens when food blocks a child’s intestines, drying, thickening and heating, causing chronic disease later.
Erection Difficulty Treatment, Foods and Supplements
For erection difficulty treatment, which foods and supplements help and which don’t? Here’s advice from Chinese medicine.
Erectile Dysfunction in Chinese medicine
Erectile dysfunction means difficulty getting or maintaining an erection. Embarassing and humiliating, but Chinese medicine can help!
Male Infertility
Male infertility causes 30% infertility! Don’t waste valuable time – Investigate both male and female right from the start!
Heart and Kidney Not Harmonised, with Qi deficiency
Heart and Kidney not harmonised with qi deficiency described a syndrome usually of our own making. Which means, we can do something about it!
Heart & Kidney Not In Touch, with Yin deficiency
Heart and Kidney not communicating, with yin deficiency, can lead to potentially life-threatening consequences like internal bleeding.
Lung Yang Deficiency – ‘Cold’ ‘Weak’ lungs
Lung Yang deficiency means your Lungs don’t manage, warm and move Qi round your body properly. Hence, frequent respiratory problems.
Cold Hands – What Deficiency Causes Cold Hands?
What deficiency causes Cold Hands? How does Chinese medicine explain this? Symptoms and Signs, Causes and Treatment.
Gallbladder channel
Gallbladder channel acupuncture points lie mainly on the side of the body, stretching from eye to fourth toe. They have many important functions.
Gallbladder 20 – Fengchi – Wind Pond
Gallbladder 20 clears Wind and Excess Yang from the head, easing headache and eye, nose and ear problems. Too strong for some patients.
Dry Skin, Skin Dryness and How to Treat it
Dry Skin – how to understand it with yin and yang. It takes healthy Blood to make healthy skin, so how to get that healthy blood?
Earth Element or Earth Phase
The Earth element grounds and stabilises us, providing self-reliance, endurance and dependability. A good digestion is a blessing!
Chinese Medicine Clock – Organ Horary Times
Your Chinese medicine clock time shows when an organ may be more or less energetic, not necessarily at its best!
Metal Element or Metal Phase
Metal element or Metal phase generates the essence of maturity and experience, ready to enrich the next cycle of life: meantime, fortifying spirit!
The Wood Element or Phase
Growth and Your Wood element or Wood Phase describes how your life and health respond to growing and expanding your horizons.
Water – Water phase or Water Element
Water phase or Water Element problems often come with lack of fluidity and poor recovery from rest: memory and comprehension issues.
Anti-Dampness Foods – which help to clear Damp!
Discover which anti-dampness foods and herbs help DISPEL damp from your body. But also, STOP eating foods that CAUSE damp!
Cold Feet Meaning Poor Circulation in Feet
Do you get cold feet? All the time or just when you’re tired? How does Chinese medicine explain this and what can you do about it?
Spleen 10 – Xuehai: Sea of Blood
Spleen 10, Zuehai, Sea of Blood, strengthens your Blood, controlling yang factors like Heat and helping to steady your Mind.
Heart Yang Deficiency – Palpitations, Cold and Weak
Heart Yang Deficiency – Cold, Tired, Depleted Spirits. Signs , symptoms,, aetiology and what to do! And if you ignore it, what happens next.
Spleen 8 – Diji – Earth Motivator
Spleen 8 – Diji – is Spleen xi-cleft point, moves fluids and regulates Blood: very useful for uterine problems and pain, also being analgesic.
Acupuncture and Homoeopathy – which is best?
Between acupuncture and homoeopathy, which is best? Given the choice between these two great therapies, how do you decide?!
How to Warm Up if You’re Always Cold
Always poor circulation and can’t warm up? You need this page to explain why and what to do! Also, learn what NOT to do – important!
Fermented Food and your Liver
Fermented foods both preserve and enhance a food’s quality, add ‘sourness’ to you diet and help Liver and Gallbladder work better.
Common Diseases List – Pages for You!
Common diseases listed are those you often ask about. Here’s how Chinese medicine explains them, and why it may help. Includes some syndromes, too.
Spleen Channel points: your Spleen meridian
This Spleen channel points list links to individual Spleen points for deeper study. The Spleen: Your Great Housekeeper!
Singing for health: Chinese medicine perspective
Singing means different things to different people. It can be enjoyable and community-enhancing. What about for health and your mind?
Phlegm After Eating, Constant Phlegm
Do you get phlegm after eating? Must hawk to clear throat mucus before speaking? With stuff that blocks your nose?
Three-Heater 6: SJ-6: Zhigou – Branch Ditch
Three-Heater 6 releases Qi stagnation and removes obstruction from intestines. Clears Heat from all parts of the body. Helps depression.
Oketsu and TCM – Chinese medicine
Oketsu, from Japanese acupuncture, describes problems from portal vein congestion and blood stagnation that need urgent treatment.
Lockdown, Yin and Yang Covid Rules
Trapped in static yin lockdown? How to reduce yin and use yang to alleviate misery! It’s your choice and your opportunity!
High Blood Pressure – Hypertension
High blood pressure – hypertension: understand it with yin and yang to get the right treatment. Excess yang or deficient yin?
Spleen 3 – Taibai – Supreme White
As source point Spleen 3 strengthens your Spleen so enhances your digestion, energy and Blood and helps to clear or disperse Damp.
Heart Qi Deficiency – Uncomfy Heart and S.O.B.
Heart Qi deficiency – you’d think this would deserve a long page, so important is the Heart. Well, no! It’s easily explained but still, important!
Gallbladder 34 – Yanglingquan – Yang Mound Spring
Gallbladder 34, yanglingquan clears Damp-Heat and soothes and steadies the tendons. Great for many kinds of arthritis and aching wandering pains.
Spleen 9 – Yinlingquan – Yin Mound Spring
Spleen 9, yinlingquan, is a major point for conditions caused by Damp, so helps urinary problems, ascites, oedema and general swelling.
Spleen 6 – Sanyinjiao: Three Yin Crossing
Spleen 6 Sanyinjiao is a strong reliable acupuncture point for yin and Blood problems, so good for clearing Damp and helping anaemia.
Appointment precautions during Covid-19
The appointment precautions we are taking during Covid 19. Please read and follow this advice for your and others’ safety.
Phlegm-Heat: Hot phlegm
Phlegm-Heat has lots of green/yellow sputum and a noisy honk of a cough. If acute it comes early in a cold or ‘flu. If chronic, you probably took antibiotics for it.
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