TCM Basics ⁽³⁾

Many patients who consult me mention that their hands and feet are cold, saying they have read some TCM books and watched health experts on television, and learned that cold hands and feet are a sign of yang deficiency, requiring warming-tonifying drugs or foods to…

A healthy body does not fall ill without external stimuli. Whether these stimuli are what TCM calls internal, external, or non-internal-non-external causes, or what Western medicine calls viruses, bacteria, and mutant cells, their action on the body is harmful; it is precisely because of these…

The idea of pattern differentiation and treatment was first contributed by Zhang Zhongjing, so calling him the Medical Sage is no exaggeration; TCM doctors through the dynasties are all his spiritual descendants. It is commonplace that pattern differentiation and treatment began with Zhang Zhongjing; in…