Tag: oriental medicine
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Tu Youyou Wins Nobel Prize in Medicine for TCM-Based Malaria Treatment
Categories: Research & ArticlesTu Youyou, an 84-year-old Chinese scientist, was recently awarded the 2015 Nobel Prize for Medicine for her discovery and development of artemisinin, a malaria treatment that has saved millions of lives over the past few decades. Tu’s team of researchers rediscovered the drug, which has been known to Chinese medicine for at least 2000 years, in…
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Why You Should Go to School for Chinese Medicine
Categories: Research & ArticlesSo many people are looking for meaning and challenge in their lives. We spend so much time at work; shouldn’t you love what you do? For me, I had to make a change so I could start loving what I do. This article is for those people who ask why you should go to school…
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Classical Medicine for Treating Male Sexual Disorders
Categories: Research & ArticlesBy Suzanne Robidoux, PhD, CM, DOM, LAc As practitioners, we always want to bring the quickest, most effective treatment at the lowest price possible. In TCM, sexual disorders are mainly due to either liver qi stagnation, liver and kidney depletion, or the kidney and heart not communicating. What can we offer our patients, however, once we…
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Special Excerpt From the Desert
Categories: Research & ArticlesBy Bob Damone In the early 1980’s, a few years before it ever occurred to me to pursue a career in Chinese herbal medicine, I became interested in “Western” herbal medicine. I read everything I could get my hands on, including “The Way of Herbs” by Michael Tierra. I immediately devoured it, and immersed myself in…
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Jing, or Essence: A Brief Attempt at Elucidation of a Key Notion in Chinese Medicine
Categories: Research & ArticlesBy Elisabeth Rochat de la Vallée THE CHARACTER On the left hand side of the character for essence, jing, 精, we find the grain of rice or husked seed, 米, ready to be ground, kneaded and cooked. On the right, a green color is added, 青, qing. This is the green of young growing plants,…
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The Science of Medicinal Mushrooms
Categories: Research & ArticlesBy Andrew Gaeddert What are medicinal mushrooms? Medicinal mushrooms are fungal organisms that are used in traditional Chinese Medicine, nutritional supplements and drugs. It is estimated that China is responsible for 70 percent of the world’s mushroom production. Shiitake cultivation is reported to have begun in China in the 12th century. It is estimated that…
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Sinus Problems and Seasonal Allergies Cured with Traditional Chinese Medicine
Categories: Research & ArticlesTraditional Chinese Medicine can provide an alternative treatment for seasonal allergies and sinus problems. Most medical practitioners will recommend using decongestants, non-steroidal nasal sprays, allergy shots, antihistamines, or nasal corticosteroids to combat these sinus problems. While these options have been successful for many patients afflicted with burning throats, itchy eyes, inflamed eyes, and stuffy nose,…
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Using the Gall Bladder Divergent Channel to Calm an Irritated Vagus Nerve
Categories: Research & ArticlesKaty visited our center with a seemingly disparate collection of symptoms that were causing her distress. She described a pattern that was episodic in nature and involved abdominal bloating, belching, acid reflux, loose stools, shallow breathing, and palpitations. A cardiologist had ruled out serious heart disease and she’d been offered beta-blockers for what had been…
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Treating Fever Using Classical Thinking from the Shang Han Lun
Categories: Research & ArticlesThe classical Chinese medical system views health and disease through the “eight-principle and six-syndrome” differentiation methods. In ancient times, Chinese medical experts identified groups of symptoms as patterns, and associated them with specific formulas. Eventually, with repeated clinical success they recorded these patterns as “formula patterns”. Later, during the Eastern Han Dynasty between 40 to…
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New Chinese Medicine Tools to Replenish and Repair Our Gut
Categories: Research & ArticlesOur health landscape is changing rapidly and we find ourselves in a new era. An era of degrading food supply, systemic inflammation, and overuse of drugs, including antibiotics. Living in our modern world takes its toll and we see it in our practices everyday. Antibiotics are failing, superbugs are on the rise, and digestive health…