• Diagnosing Methods of Chinese Medicine| Leave a Comment

    In Chinese medicine, doctors use various methods to get full and detailed information about the patients and to guide their treatment, via observing, listening, smelling, and touching. They also talk to the patients or their relatives.
    To treat diseases, doctors use the methods of observation, auscultation and olfaction, interrogation, and pulse feeling and palpation. These methods, [...]

  • Traditional Chinese Dietotherapy| Leave a Comment

    Guided by fundamental theories of traditional Chinese medicine, traditional Chinese dietotherapy (TCD) is a specialty that is in concerns with the study of how to make good use of foods and natural nutriments as well as Chinese materia medica to preserve health, prevent and heal diseases, quicken their recovery, and slow down aging. TCD has [...]

  • Dietotherapy for Common Gastrointestinal Ailments| Leave a Comment

    In general, gastrointestinal ailments involve different degrees of upper abdominal pain. Chinese medicine categories this as part of stomach disease, and reckoned that gastrointestinal ailments are caused by exposure to cold air on the stomach, eating and drinking habits, as well as energy from liver damaging gastric functions. From this diagnosis, they would prescreen the [...]

  • Dietetic Treatment for Kidney Disease| Leave a Comment

    Barley Porridge with Astragalus and Red Beans
    Ingredients:
    * 30g astragalus
    * 30g Job’s Tears Seeds
    * 15g phaseolus beans
    * 9g Endothelium Cornuem Glgeriae Galli (powder form)
    * 1 tangerine.
    Preparation:
    1. [...]

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