Traditional Chinese medicine

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 longer…

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 countries, and also they have rising faster than before for more than forty years (The High…

HISHAM ALAMOUDI Chinese Acupuncture Introduction Acupuncture is a form of traditional alternative Chinese medicine. It is administered in form of needles inserted in the various acupuncture points in the human body. It mainly used by the Chinese people for pain relief (Abbate, 2004). Clinical practices on the use of Chinese acupuncture is common in various countries. System reviews and variety of researches have been carried on the Chinese traditional medicine. However, the results from the…

Yin and yang symbol in the Daoist religion is the symbol depicts that how actually the opposite or contrary forces are actually complementary, interconnected, and interdependent in the natural world, and how they give rise to each other as they join up to one another. The characteristics of Yin is given as like it is slow, soft, yielding, diffuse, cold, wet, and passive and it is linked with the earth, water, the moon, feminineness, and night. Most of the prominent dualities such as light and…

The concept of yin and yang was originated in ancient Chinese philosophy and was later adopted by Daoism. Wisdom in China is highly associated with understanding the interaction of these two forces. The symbol of yin and yang is a complete round circle, dividing the dark with white spot and the bright side with a black spot in a half. According to Daosim, the yin and yang are present in everything and are found everywhere. The yin and yang are the two interacting, interdependent, and…

and nature. They also believed that ghosts inhabited the earth. The supernatural concept has drastically changed along the decades. It is important to understand that the supernatural in ancient China had an extraordinary seriousness amongst the Chinese society and their lifestyle. I will expose and analyse the purpose…

The mature period of Chou Wen-Chung’s compositional output was marked by the gradual formulation of his musical language from I Ching, or the Classic of Changes from the Western Zhou period (1000-750 BCE). The most documented aspect of Chou’s language was his system of pitch organization, which he named variable modes. It took Chou more than three decades to arrive at its final version, and it formed the backbones of his compositional structure. The theoretical foundation of this system is…

cupping therapy has been brought to the attention of the masses, it is not a new therapy. Cupping is an ancient medical technique of European, Asian, and Middle Eastern cultures has been practiced for thousands of years. While some consider the Chinese to be responsible for cupping, the earliest records date back to the ancient Egyptians around 1500 B.C. (This History of Cupping). The History of Cupping states “translations of hieroglyphics in the Ebers Papyrus, the oldest medical text book,…

not all, traditional Chinese medicine is considered pseudoscience because it lacks scientific evidence proving its effectiveness (National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health, 2013). Any effects from following traditional Chinese medicine is more likely to be psychological, as opposed to any actual biological healing taking place (Wikipedia). It is still important…

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…