Special Diet in Chongqing Street Favored by Foreigners

As you might imagine, hotpot restaurants grace almost every street in the city. Xiao Tian E (Cygnet Hot-Pot Palace) and E Zhang Men are two of Chongqing's most popular. The hotpot restaurants in the Chongqing 5-star Harbour Plaza also serve decent food in a cozy environment. Although hotpot is probably the most well known delicacy in Chonqing, many savory treats may appeal to you. Some tr...

Unique TCM Characters

Different ways of organizing the information Firstly of all, traditional Chinese medicine and Western medicine use different ways of organizing the information based on the same symptoms, same signs and same patient. Let me take an example. Diagnosing the same patient with a lump in her breast, a Western doctor will see a cyst, lesion, fibroid or cancer whereas a Chinese medical doctor wil...

Top 5 anti-aging Herbs

Are you afraid of getting old or looking older than you actually are? Women, especially, dread the day they will look in the mirror and see wrinkles around their eyes. But sitting worrying about getting old will just speed up the aging process. A better idea is to take a look at what Chinese medicine has to offer in the way of herbal remedies. #1Fengwangjiang (Royal Jelly) Royal Jelly ...

Free Chinese Medicine Consultations in London

Nowadays people are in pursuit of fashionable health care and wellbeing. Chinese wellbeing focuses ondeveloping and maintaining one’s health in a scientific manner with the guidance of traditional Chinese medicinal theories. Confucius Institute for Traditional Chinese Medicine (CITCM) at London South Bank University (LSBU) offered free health consultations and massage to LSBU staff to foster bet...

Easy Way of Massage Therapy

You may already have heard friends talking about massage therapy and how wonderful it is. With fast moving life and the continuous chase to meet deadlines, your tired mind and body be likely to seek for stress relief. Massaging can help you to get relaxed and unwind. Massage therapy is one of the most important techniques of complementary and alternative medicine. You can find different ...

Traditional Chinese Medicine to Diagnose and Cure Illness

With a history of 2000 to 3000 years, Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) has formed a unique system to diagnose and cure illness. The TCM approach is fundamentally different from that of Western medicine. In TCM, the understanding of the human body is based on the holistic understanding of the universe as described in Daoism, and the treatment of illness is based primarily on the diagnosis and...

Chinese Way to Treat Disease- Chinese Medicine

It seems many Westerners can't accept Chinese way to treat disease, or maybe consider it as a kind of sorceries or even torture, so what's your opinion about it?

How TCM Views External Medicine

In traditional Chinese medicine (TCM), internal medicine is the branch that deals with the diagnosis and treatment of internal organ systems, while external medicine is the branch concerned with the body's surface. In AD 1516, Wang Ji defined the scope of external medicine, wai kei, in his work Waikei Lili (Theory and Examples of External Medicine.) The book states: "It is called external medi...

Australia Legalizes Traditional Chinese Medicine

Since July 1 this year, acupuncturists and Chinese herbal medicine practitioners must be registered under the national registration system of Australia. It's the first time traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) practitioners have been licensed in a western country. Statistics shows that there are five thousand Chinese medicine and acupuncture clinics in Australia now. Those clinics serve a...

Traditional Chinese Medicine-Huatuo

华佗 Hua Tuo HUA Tuo was a famous physician in the later years of the Eastern Han Dynasty (AD 25-220). He is widely known as the first doctor in traditional Chinese medicine to invent some anesthetic herbal formulas and the first surgeon to conduct abdominal operations. Hua also created a set of therapeutic qigong exercises called Wuqinxi or Five-Animal Frolics, which imitate the movement of tiger...