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Tao He Cheng Qi Tang: The Mind-Body Connection
We often speak of blood stagnation in terms of physical obstructions, circulatory problems and damaged tissue. We often speak of the tai yang conformation in terms of external pathogens that need to be expelled from the body using sweating as the main treatment strategy. So why are formulas that treat blood stagnation mentioned in relation…
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This is not about Politics, this is about Humanity
Acupuncture, as a philosophical therapeutic system, was linked to understanding bodily concepts in terms of cosmic forces and order of rule. The correlation between the health of the individual body and the stability of the Chinese empire served to establish the authority of a centralized ruling elite.[1] Confrontations have always been a part of this…