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Insomnia in Taditional Chinese Medicine

Friday, January 4th, 2008

In TCM, a primary concept is the idea of "root and branch." Symptoms like insomnia are considered to be the branches of a disease. The root of a disease is a dysfunction or imbalance of the fundamental substances (Chi, blood, Yin, Yang, Jing, Shen), or of the major organ systems ...

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Treatment of Neurodegenerative Disorders with Acupuncture

Friday, January 4th, 2008

According to the theories of Oriental Medicine, the spirit (shen) resides within the heart and the brain. The spirit is affected by the overall mental and physical health of a person. If the spirit is damaged, both the mental and the physical functions of a person would be greatly compromised. ...

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Abstaining from Too Much Worry

Thursday, August 9th, 2007

Worry is one of the activities of the spirit.ÿ Everybody has something to think of or to worry about, but less worry will ease the spirit while too much anxiety will hurt the spirit and shorten life. The book Ling Shu also says, "Too much anxiety injures the spirit "The ...

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Mental Health Care

Friday, August 3rd, 2007

In TCM, great attention has always been paid to the close relationship between mental activities and health. Its established theory of "integrating spirit with body" holds that both together make up an organic unity:�? to strengthen the spirit, �? one must strengthen the body, and to strengthen the body, one must ...

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