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Southern New Hampshire University Tai Chi: The Medical Benefits Tai Chi Ch’uan part of the Shaolin martial arts styles with influential bonds to the Buddhist monasteries, often shortened to Tai Chi, dates back to the 12th century. The ancient Chinese martial arts involves three primary aspects: Health, Meditation, and Martial Arts. Tai Chi, although originally a martial arts, is now mainly practiced today as a form of exercise with a plethora of health benefits. It utilizes breathing,…

People in China still believe that Chinese traditional medicine is more curable than these days medicine. According to “The New York Times”, “health care costs are far higher in the United States than in any other advance nation…”, medicine is expensive in developed countries rather than developing…

For example, Chinese people do not “take medicine.” Instead, Chinese people “eat medicine” and categorize medicine as a type of food beneficial for the body in sickness or when physically healthy. This idea of “eating medicine” embodies the concept of tiaoli. It illustrates that by eating medicine, something beneficial for the body, Chinese people can continuously improve their health and wellbeing. Accordingly, Iris believes, as she states in the interview, “Chinese Herbal Medicine takes…

The Chinese have been practicing medicine for nearly five thousand. Although the first written evidence dates back to the 2nd century BC, references in these documents and archeological finds prove that the Chinese have been refining the practice for thousands of years. An important aspect of Chinese culture and medicine is philosophy. As a major contributor and stop along the Silk Route they were exposed to the cultural and religious beliefs of the people of India, Africa, Egypt, Greece, and…

Acupuncture is one of the routes in traditional Chinese therapy. Used to remove pain and some many diseases. Which insert the needles in specific areas of the body. The Chinese philosophy said the acupuncture affects the life strength of the person and insert the needles in the painful areas in the body. The acupuncture is old Chinese medicine practice develop and improve during thousands of years. In the past used sharp stones where inject in the body then development and start using animal…

Newsmax tells about the five cultures that have strong focuses on natural medicine: Native Americans, Middle and Near Easterners, the Maori culture in New Zealand, Chinese and Indian (Holistic). Native Americans use their “native medicine” that is based around man being part of nature and nature being part of man (Holistic). In the Middle and Near East, their alternative medicine practices date back to 2635 BC (Holistic). The physicians then, most commonly women, started the use of mummification…

water. Sit on the hot water first until the water reaches the waistline. Stay for three to five minutes. Sit on the same level of cold water for one to two minutes. Repeat the procedure three to five times. Acupuncture - one of the oldest Chinese Traditional Medicine, acupuncture was believed to relieve the pain and inflammation by inserting tiny needles into tye skin known as the meridians. It is said that the…

Traditional Healing “Consumer Health, What’s considered an alternative therapy is a moving target. Get the facts about what CAM means and its changing role in health care” By Mayo Clinic Staff, talks about unconventional ways of healing. Today with many diverse medications on the market, people are looking for alternative treatments. Complementary and alternative medicine is what it is called or CAM for short. CAM treatments are classified as: whole medical systems, mind-body medicine,…

4. Analysis of Traditional Chinese Medicines (TCM) [26] The identification and quantification of components of traditional TCM by chromatographic analysis (HPLC) is one of the major challenge. As TCM is a complex matrices in which all the constituents plays specific role for the overall efficacy. So the analysis of all the constituents synchronously is necessary to quality control the TCM. So the new technique UPLC is used for the quality control of the TCM. 5. Multi-residue analysis of…

There are several types of acupuncture for weight loss. The traditional Chinese method targets the spleen and liver to restore balance to various hormones. Two such hormones are leptin, which effects appetite, and Insulin, which regulates fat storage and metabolism. Another type of acupuncture for weight loss, which originated…