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The Medical Classic of the Yellow Emperor

Friday, December 21st, 2007

As the oldest extant classic of traditional Chinese medicine, its first word-for-word translation from Chinese to English is published by Beijing Foreign Languages Press. Compiled roughly two thousand years ago, this great work forms the theoretical basis of TCM. As TCM's history developed over the millennia, nearly all significant medical works ...

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Fire Cupping

Friday, December 14th, 2007

Fire cupping is a 2,500-year-old method to increase the circulation of Qi and blood. Practitioners use fire cupping to treat breathing difficulties such as asthma, cough, and chest tightness. Fire cupping is also used to treat cold and flu symptoms, gastrointestinal difficulties, menstrual pain, neck and shoulder pain, low back ...

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Acupuncture

Friday, December 14th, 2007

Chinese Acupuncture is so different from western acupuncture because it is practiced based on the network of meridians that can only be fully understood and applied by Chinese doctors. Therefore, the aim of Acupuncture is to regulate the meridians or channels of the body to re-open the stagnation of QI ...

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Cortisol and Acupuncture

Wednesday, December 12th, 2007

Acupuncture, Fibromyalgia, and Cortisol Levels: Medical Acupuncture Research by Brian Benjamin Carter Hi, Recently a patient of mine who I have been seeing for fibromyalgia with some success came to me and told me her doctor had recommended she discontinue acupuncture.

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Yin and Yang

Monday, December 10th, 2007

One of the basic elements of Chinese Philosophy and Oriental Medicine is the concept of yin and yang (rhymes with 'song,' not 'sang'). These fundamental opposites were first recorded in the I-Ching around 700 B.C. This duality is a basic part of our experience as human beings. Early in life ...

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