Chishiteng is the name of a traditional Chinese medicine. It consists of the dried aerial parts of Paederia scandens (Lour.) Merr., a plant belonging to the genus Paederia in the Rubiaceae family. It has the effects of aiding digestion, relieving pain, detoxifying, and dispelling dampness. It is primarily used to treat undigested food stagnation, pain in the flanks, epigastrium, and abdomen, eczema, and swollen and painful sores.
Fire Hemp Seeds, a name in traditional Chinese medicine, are the dried, mature fruits of Cannabis sativa L., a plant of the genus Cannabis in the Moraceae family. They are primarily produced in Shandong, Hebei, Heilongjiang, Jilin, and Liaoning. This product has the efficacy of moistening the intestines and relieving constipation, and is primarily used to treat blood deficiency, fluid deficiency, and constipation due to intestinal dryness.
Duck-Tongue Fish Turtle is the name of a traditional Chinese medicine. It is the whole plant of Saxiglossum angustissimum (Gies.) Ching, a member of the Polypodiaceae family.It is distributed in Central and Southern China, as well as in Shanxi, Shaanxi, Gansu, Anhui, Zhejiang, Jiangxi, Fujian, Taiwan, Sichuan, and Guizhou. It has the effects of clearing heat, draining dampness, and improving vision. It is commonly used for lung-heat cough, sore throat, red eyes with photophobia, infantile convulsions, difficulty urinating, and leukorrhea in women.
Red Reishi, also known as Lingzhi, is the fruiting body of the fungus Ganoderma lucidum (Leyss. ex Fr.) Karst. of the Polyporaceae family and is produced in most regions of the country. This product has the effects of tonifying qi, calming the mind, relieving coughs, and alleviating wheezing. It is primarily used to treat restlessness, insomnia, palpitations, coughing and wheezing due to lung deficiency, shortness of breath caused by debility, and loss of appetite.
TCM Theory constitutes the fundamental theoretical framework of Traditional Chinese Medicine, a complete medical discipline formed through long-term clinical observation and summary in ancient China.
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
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
Chen is an ancient method of dividing day and night into equal parts. There are twelve divisions: Zi, Chou, Yin, Mao, Chen, Si, Wu, Wei, Shen, You, Xu, and Hai. Each division corresponds to a fixed time on the clock; for example, the Zi division spans from 11 p.m. to 1 a.m. the next morning. … Read more
The onset of wellness in the human body is often related to time and hour. Based on the principle of correspondence between the human body and the universe, this article makes a preliminary exploration into the differentiation of syndromes according to time and hour for wellness with a fixed onset time. The twelve time periods … Read more
