COV-19 pandemic affected millions of people in the world. I am trying to explain below how Chinese medicine view the COV-19 pandemic. At the end of the article there is a recommendation of tea you…
My family was in lockdown in Wuhan for 2 month. But now no longer is. I have been reading the news everyday since early Jan concerning the Coronavirus. With the outbreak in Europe and in…
Treating winter illness in the summer is a phase in China called "Dong Bing Xia Zhi". Winter illness means the illnesses that often happen or get aggravated during the winter season like asthma, chronic bronchitis,…
Last weekend I spent a day in the bloom festival (garden festival in Ireland). It is great fun to see different ideas of garden and to taste lots of artisan food. It is also good…
According to the recent report, there are 5,491 100-year-old people in Jiangsu Province of China. The two longest-lived ones are 116 years old this year(2019), and they are still very healthy. The investigation of the…
Do you ever wonder why your energy always runs low at a certain time of the day? Or you commonly wake up at in the mid of the night at a certain time? There is…
Today is Chinese New Year Eve. Chinese New Year is the biggest holiday celebrated among Chinese people. It is often referred to as the spring festival because it signals the beginning of spring. It is a…
Traditional Chinese medicine, also referred to as TCM, is the broad chunk of what’s considered Eastern medicine. Traditional Chinese Medicine dates back 2500 years and it is based on the philosophy of Taoism, including various…
Traditional Chinese medicine thinks that the winter season has the yin characteristics of cold, damp, and inactivity. These characteristics, when living in harmony with nature, cause us to want to slow down, stay warm, replenish…
Many people in the western world are aware of the benefits of traditional Chinese medicine. Common treatments include acupuncture, reflexology, and herbal medicine。 Acupuncture was more popular mainly because of US president Richard Nixon’s visit…