Spring is the season of growing, which Chinese medicine says is the liver season. It's a good time to take care of the liver. Spring is also the best time to adjust the whole body, which helps us healthier. Let's start our spring life.
Spring's arrival brings fragrant, blooming trees, green grass, singing birds, and for many, an unwanted visitor: pollen. Millions of people suffer sneezing and itchig due to mild to severe pollen allergies. This week, Beijing Today has some methods for coping with pollen allergies that don't involve hiding inside a sealed, air-conditioned box.
The days are getting longer and warmer, the flowers are starting to bloom, and the city will soon be green again. With spring on its way, BJW talked to Chinese traditional health expert Lin Yang about health issues at this time of the year.
But rather than go to a chiropractor or physiotherapist, as he might do back home in New York, the 32-year-old finance professional instead spends a few hours a month receiving acupuncture. Despite his initial reservations about having his back and neck pierced with needles, he was surprised to find that the treatments relieved his pain
In the China of old times, forest frog was considered a precious and rare food and among eight "water treasures", with such delicacies as shark fin and sea cucumber. Most notably produced in Northeast China, this forest frog is not just any frog.
Most foreigners get a kick out of kungfu, but most have a relatively superficial understanding of the ancient Chinese martial art form. The word, which literally translates as "great achievement", at first meant to excel in any scholarly area.
Plagued by chronic insomnia and frequent headaches, Shanghai businesswoman Cai Jie had nowhere to turn, but deep within, to find the solution to her problems through meditation. The form of holistic healing that traces its heritage back to ancient Hindu texts has become a routine part of her life.
While a Western medical doctor might prescribe medicine and leave the question of diet to the nutritionists, a traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) practioner sees "food as medicine and medicine as food." He or she is expected to know the use of everyday food to balance one's health.
"In Western countries, people believe in Western medicine but there has seldom been as much enthusiasm for traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) as there is now, especially those made from animals," said Ge Rui, Asian Regional Director of the International Fund for Animal Welfare.
From its indoor koi pond to traditional wood-paneled doors, The Meridian's classic Chinese dcor and serene ambience resembles a high-end spa, in the vein of Oriental Taipan. But this is no simple spa. The Meridian, located in the posh Lido neighborhood, is the first Beijing leisure facility to combine traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) practice.
As people around the country wilt in the heat, hospitals and clinics of traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) are seeing some of their busiest days of the year. In every hospital the front lobby is filled to capacity with people of all ages waiting for the treatment of futie? a patch consisting of medicinal herbs that are applied to specific acupoints.
Lula once told a reporter with the newspaper O Estado de Sao Paulo that he had no doubts about the effectiveness of TCM after his Chinese doctor "cured his arthritis of the shoulder with some tiny needles". He even takes along his Chinese doctor on his overseas visits.