TCM Chrono-Health

Aug 13, 2026 01:33 (America/New_York)
Jia Xu Day JiaZi Hour

Ziwuliuzhu [Read More]

Active Meridian: Gallbladder
Open Point: Zu Lin Qi
Time Period: 23:00-01:00
Flow: Head to foot, body side

Linggui Bafa [Read More]

Main Point: Zhao Hai

Pair: Shen Mai

Vessel: Yin Heel Vessel

甲(10) + 戌(5) + 甲(10) + 子(9) = 34, remainder 2

Feiteng Bafa [Read More]

Open Point: Gong Sun

Wellness tips [Read More]

Sleep deeply to nourish gallbladder. Avoid staying up late. Massage Tinghui point.

Time Diagnosis [Read More]

Active Organ: Gallbladder
If symptoms like Bitter taste, migraine, hypochondriac pain recur at this time, consider Gallbladder meridian pathology.

Zangfu Pathology Analysis [Read More]

Liver & Gallbladder are exterior-interior. Wood overacts on Earth, easily affects Spleen/Stomach.

Yin-Yang Imbalance [Read More]

Yin excess, Yang decline. Do not disturb sinews or expose yourself to dew.

Reishi

Reishi is a name used in traditional Chinese medicine. It refers to the dried fruiting bodies of the fungi Ganoderma lucidum (Leyss. ex Fr.) Karst. (red reishi) or Ganoderma sinense Zhao, Xu et Zhang (purple reishi), belonging to the genus Ganoderma in the family Polyporaceae. It has the effects of tonifying qi, calming the mind, relieving cough, and alleviating wheezing. It is primarily used to treat restlessness, insomnia, palpitations, cough and wheezing due to lung deficiency, shortness of breath caused by debility, and loss of appetite.

Goji Berries

Goji berries, a traditional Chinese medicine, are the dried, ripe fruits of Ningxia goji (Lycium barbarum L.), a plant belonging to the genus Lycium in the Solanaceae family. They have the effects of tonifying the liver and kidneys, nourishing essence, and improving eyesight. They are primarily used to treat deficiency-syndrome with essence depletion, soreness and pain in the lower back and knees, dizziness and tinnitus, impotence and nocturnal emission, internal heat with excessive thirst, blood deficiency with pallor and weakness, and blurred vision.

Red Rhodiola

Rhodiola is the name of a traditional Chinese medicine. It consists of the dried roots and rhizomes of Rhodiola crenulata (Hook.f. et Thoms.) H. Ohba, a plant in the Crassulaceae family. It has the effects of tonifying qi, promoting blood circulation, unblocking meridians, and relieving wheezing. It is primarily used to treat qi deficiency with blood stasis, chest pain due to bi syndrome, hemiplegia caused by stroke, and fatigue with shortness of breath.

Gastrodia elata

Tianma is a traditional Chinese medicinal herb used to calm the liver and subdue wind. It is the dried tuber of Gastrodia elata Bl., a plant in the genus Gastrodia of the Orchidaceae family. It has the effects of subduing wind and relieving spasms, calming liver yang, and dispelling wind to unblock the meridians.It is primarily used to treat infantile convulsions, epileptic seizures, tetanus, headaches and dizziness, paralysis of the hands and feet, numbness of the limbs, and rheumatic arthralgia.

Licorice

Licorice is a commonly used Chinese medicinal herb derived from the dried roots and rhizomes of the leguminous plants Glycyrrhiza, Glycyrrhiza glabra, or Glycyrrhiza glabra var. glabra. It is named for its sweet taste. It is primarily produced in Inner Mongolia, Shaanxi, Gansu, and the Northeast, where unique geographical and climatic conditions endow it with excellent medicinal properties.Licorice has the effects of tonifying the spleen and boosting qi, clearing heat and detoxifying, eliminating phlegm and relieving cough, and alleviating spasms and pain. It is commonly used to treat spleen and stomach deficiency, deficiency of heart qi, heat-toxin syndromes, cough, and spasmodic pain in the epigastrium, abdomen, or limbs. It also harmonizes other herbs, mitigates drug toxicity, and balances the properties of medicinal materials, making it widely used in herbal formulas. In addition, licorice can be incorporated into daily diets to provide certain health-promoting benefits.

Cordyceps

Cordyceps, a name in traditional Chinese medicine. It is the dried composite of the fruiting body and the corpse of a caterpillar from the family Sphingidae, parasitized by the fungus Cordyceps sinensis (Berk.) Sacc. of the Clavicipitaceae family. It is primarily produced in Sichuan, Tibet, and Qinghai.This herb has a sweet taste and neutral nature; it enters the Lung and Kidney meridians. It has the effects of tonifying the kidneys and nourishing the lungs, as well as stopping bleeding and resolving phlegm. It can be used to treat kidney deficiency with essence depletion, impotence and nocturnal emission, soreness and pain in the lower back and knees, chronic cough with wheezing due to deficiency, and coughing up blood due to overwork.

Dong Quai

Dong Quai is a blood-nourishing medicinal herb derived from the root of Angelica sinensis (Oliv) Diels, a plant belonging to the genus Angelica in the Apiaceae family. It has the effects of nourishing and invigorating the blood, regulating menstruation and relieving pain, and moistening the intestines to promote bowel movements.It is primarily used to treat blood deficiency with pallor, dizziness and palpitations, irregular menstruation, amenorrhea and dysmenorrhea, abdominal pain due to deficiency-cold, rheumatic arthralgia, trauma from falls or blows, boils, abscesses, and sores, as well as constipation caused by intestinal dryness.

Astragalus

Astragalus is the name of a traditional Chinese medicine. It is the dried root of Astragalus membranaceus (Fisch.) Bge. var. mongholicus (Bge.) Hsiao or Astragalus membranaceus (Fisch.) Bge., plants belonging to the genus Astragalus in the Fabaceae family.It has the effects of tonifying qi and raising yang, consolidating the exterior and stopping sweating, promoting diuresis and reducing edema, generating body fluids and nourishing blood, resolving stagnation and relieving arthralgia, expelling toxins and draining pus, and promoting wound healing and tissue regeneration.It is primarily used to treat qi deficiency with fatigue, poor appetite and loose stools, sinking of central qi, chronic diarrhea with rectal prolapse, bloody stools and metrorrhagia, spontaneous sweating due to exterior deficiency, edema caused by qi deficiency, internal heat with excessive thirst, pallor and weakness due to blood deficiency, hemiplegia, arthralgia and numbness, abscesses and boils that are slow to ulcerate, and chronic ulcers that fail to heal.

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Min County Dong Quai National Demonstration Zone for Export Food

Min County Dong Quai National Demonstration Zone for Export Food and Agricultural Product Quality and Safety,Globally renowned as the Hometown of Dong Quai in China, Min County of Gansu Province is the authentic Daodi origin of high-quality Dong Quai (Angelica sinensis), traditionally known as Min Gui. With more than 1,800 years of herbal planting heritage ... Read more

China-NIAHS:Min County Dong Quai Farming System

The Min County Dong Quai Farming System in Dingxi, Gansu, was officially inscribed on the list of Nationally Important Agricultural Heritage Systems of China in 2014 (the second batch). Rooted in the core Daodi origin of authentic Min Gui, it represents a living, time-honored agro-cultural system integrating herbal cultivation wisdom, ecological rotation, traditional processing craftsmanship ... Read more

Min County Daodi Chinese Herb Planting Base For Dong Quai

Located in Min County, Dingxi, Gansu — renowned as the Hometown of Dong Quai in China — the standardized Daodi Chinese Herb Planting Base focuses on ecological cultivation of authentic Min Gui. Rooted in the core Daodi origin zone of Dong Quai, the base inherits centuries of local planting tradition and complies with national specification ... Read more

Min County Dong Quai GAP Chinese Medicinal Herb Base

Located in Min County, Dingxi, Gansu — renowned as the Hometown of Dong Quai in China — the standardized GAP Chinese Medicinal Herb Base specializes in standardized cultivation of authentic Min Gui (Gansu Dong Quai). Fully compliant with national Good Agricultural Practice (GAP) for Chinese crude drugs, the base integrates standardized rotation planting, whole-process ecological ... Read more

Min County Dong Quai Chinese Medicinal Herb Seedling Base

Located in Min County, Dingxi, Gansu, reputed as the Hometown of Chinese Dong Quai, this standardized Chinese Medicinal Herb Seedling Base focuses on selective breeding and mass propagation of high-quality Min Gui seedlings. As the core germplasm source base for Daodi Dong Quai nationwide, the base undertakes germplasm conservation, seed purification, seedling breeding and technical ... Read more

Best Place to Grow Dong Quai: Min County, Gansu Province

Min County, Dingxi, Gansu, reputed as the Hometown of Chinese Dong Quai, is globally acknowledged as the ideal natural habitat for Dong Quai. Situated at the convergence of the Loess Plateau, Qinghai-Tibet Plateau and West Qinling Mountains, it perfectly satisfies all rigorous ecological demands of Dong Quai cultivation. Min County Dong Quai holds National Geographical ... Read more

Gansu Dong Quai Authorized Geographical Indication Herb Base

Located in Min County, Dingxi City, Gansu Province, known as the Hometown of Chinese Dong Quai, the standardized Authorized Geographical Indication Herb Base specializes in cultivating authentic Min County Dong Quai, widely named Min Gui. Min County Dong Quai obtained National Geographical Indication Product Protection and Geographical Indication Certification Trademark. It is also listed on ... Read more

Zhaotong Gastrodia Elata Geographical Indication Herb Base

Situated in the Wumeng Mountains of Zhaotong City, Yunnan Province, the standardized Geographical Indication Herb Base focuses on cultivating authentic Zhaotong Gastrodia elata. Zhaotong Gastrodia elata was granted national geographical indication product protection in 2004. Only gastrodia planted, managed, harvested and processed within the defined origin scope of Zhaotong enjoys the legal right to use ... Read more

Wuyun Ointment

[Formula] Calamine 60g, Vinegar 660ml, Buckwheat Flour 24g [Usage] Place the first two ingredients in an iron pan and simmer together for over 10 boils (after the water boils, let it roll for a dozen or so times). Add 24g of buckwheat flour to make a paste with an appropriate consistency. Apply it to the … Read more

Scope of Application of TCM Syndrome Differentiation Methods

The theory and methods of syndrome differentiation in traditional Chinese medicine have been developed and enriched by medical practitioners throughout the dynasties and repeatedly verified through long-term clinical practice. To date, there are as many as eight commonly used methods, which can be broadly categorized into two types: syndrome differentiation for exogenous febrile wellness, primarily … Read more

Understanding TCM Syndrome Differentiation: Concepts and Features

Syndrome differentiation, which means analyzing and identifying the syndromes of a wellness, is the primary method in traditional Chinese medicine for understanding and diagnosing wellness. The process of clinical pattern identification involves analyzing and studying a patient’s wellness information to make certain judgments. Through the four diagnostic methods of inspection, auscultation and olfaction, inquiry, and … Read more

Wu Zi San Sheng Ointment

[Formula] Pomegranate (both peel and seeds are used), fresh walnut (used with green peel), fresh green persimmon, equal parts of each. [Usage] Pound the above herbs in an iron mortar until they become a paste. Take a small-mouthed porcelain jar, place 1500g of well-prepared black tin inside, and pound it into leaf-shaped pieces the size … Read more

Han Shilang’s Miraculously Effective Beard-Twiddling Prescription

[Formula] Baiyao Jian 30g, Wubeizi (Galla Chinensis) 15g, Hezipi (Terminaliae Chebulae Pericarpium) 30g, Langba 30g, Heye (Folium Nelumbinis) 30g, Dingfen (starch) 9g, Lvfan (Melanteritum) 15g [Usage] Grind the above into fine powder. Take a bowl of iron filings decoction, boil it down to half a bowl, filter it through cotton, and then simmer it over … Read more

Recipe for Blackening Beard and Sideburns

[Formula] Liqing (Castanea mollissima Blume leaf) and Colla Corii Asini 30g each [Usage] Grind the above ingredients into powder, use paper to twist into a wick for smoking a tile basin, collect the soot, and grind it together with walnut kernel into a paste to apply to the beard and hair. [Efficacy] Blackens the beard … Read more

Xuan Sai Wu Yun Ointment

[Formula] Chalcanthitum, Galla Chinensis, Indigo Confectio, Chebulae Fructus, Walnut Peel, Pomegranate Rind (vinegar-processed), Chaenomelis Fructus Cortex, Chinese Honeylocust Spine, Polygoni Multiflori Radix, Asari Radix et Rhizoma in equal parts [Usage] Grind the above into an extremely fine powder, refine honey to make pills as large as small coins. Always nurture them in charcoal ash and … Read more

Zihe Black Decoction

[Formula] Galla Chinensis 30g, Pomegranate Rind 30g, Dried Lotus Leaf (pounded separately) 30g, Chinese Gallnut (stir-fried) 15g, Chebulic Myrobalan Rind 15g, Chinese Gallnut Extract 15g, Copperas (ground separately) 15g [Usage] Grind the above into fine powder, add 5 – 6 spoons of stir-fried flour, and make it into a paste with good-quality vinegar. Mix the … Read more

Zhang Zihe’s Aconitum-containing Medicine

[Formula] 250 g each of fine needle sand (not a traditional herb, possibly a local or specific ingredient, keep as is if it’s a specific term in a certain context) and buckwheat flour, 500 g of concentrated vinegar [Usage] Mix the above two medicinals with concentrated vinegar into a paste. First, wash the hair with … Read more

Walnut Paste

[Formula] 3 fresh walnuts [Usage] Grind the above herbs with their skins into a fine powder. Add an appropriate amount of breast milk and place in a silver vessel. Simmer over gentle to moderate heat to form a paste, stirring with a bamboo spatula during the process. When using, wash the beard and hair, then … Read more