There is an ancient Chinese saying,"Longevity goes hand-in-hand with moral cultivation."Traditional Chinese medicine lays great store by moral cultivation,as it relates to mental health.The Yellow Emperor's Canon of I...
SOONG Ching Ling knew well that marketing is critical to the survival and success of a publication.She appointed Talitha Gerlach as marketing chief of China Reconstructs,and insisted that it set up its own distributio...
Organic medicines,including root,stem,leaf,and fruit,make up the greatest part of traditional Chinese medicine,which is why Chinese medicine is also known as zhongcaoyao,or"medicinal herbs."At present,there are about ...
THE Chinese revolution,which led to the founding of the People’s Republic of China on October 1,1949,began with the victory over the Japanese aggressors in World War II,a victory which cost 35 million Chinese lives.I...
Functions of Herbal Medicines According to traditional Chinese medicine,all diseases are the result of imbalances between yin and yang and dysfunctions of internal organs and meridians and collaterals.The basic functi...
Shennong tastes a hundred herbs In the primitive era dominated by tribal or clan societies(from 100,000 years ago to 2100 B.C.),Chinese forebears learned the medicinal effects of plants and used them to cure disease.
IN June 1921,13 communists representing 52 members of communist organizations all over China met in an ordinary apartment building in Shanghai to found the Communist Party of China(CPC).Joining them were two represent...
Moxibustion therepy Moxibustion therapy refers to the use of burning mugwort to warm up certain parts of the human body and stimulate circulation through acupoints and meridians so as to prevent and cure disease.
The therapeutic approaches of acupuncture and moxibustion Acupuncture and moxibustion are unique treatments and curatives.These therapies regulate internal functions through outside stimuli.They can cure disease by st...
In the Neolithic Age more than 8,000 years ago,the forefathers of the Chinese began to use stone needles to treat illness.This is how acupuncture originated.