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Optimum Energy Food: Balancing Your Diet Through Yin and Yang

For thousands of years, this symbol has been recognized as two opposing forces in the universe working in harmony to achieve balance. This includes balancing your diet. According to Chinese thinking, good food is considered good medicine, and traditional Chinese doctors have always utilized the power of food to cure or relieve illness. Only if ...

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Baked Rhubarb Could Help Treat Cancer

Baked rhubarb crumble could hold the key to new, less toxic cancer drugs, according to UK researchers. Scientists from Sheffield Hallam University and the Scottish Crop Research Institute discovered that baking British garden rhubarb for 20 minutes increased its levels of certain anti-cancer chemicals called polyphenols. These chemicals have antioxidant properties, which have been shown ...

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Chinese Medicine for Athletes and Weekend Warriors

Chinese medicine for athletes can be very effective because one of the strongest areas of Chinese medicine is that of trauma remedies: treating the cuts, bruises, lacerations, sprained joints, and pain that can pop up unexpectedly, especially while an athlete is in training. Traditional Chinese medicine is the oldest continually practiced health care system in ...

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Healthy Aging: From the Traditional Chinese Medicine Perspective

An illustration from a classic text of Confucian filial piety shows a son amusing his elderly parents by pretending to be a child. Aging is natural, and healthy aging is achievable. Although the risk of disease and disability clearly increases with advancing age, poor health is not an inevitable consequence of aging. Many of the ...

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Delicious Eastern Spaghetti Recipe Using Soba Noodles

Few know that pasta originates from ancient China. After spreading throughout Asia, it’s said that Chinese noodles found their way to Italy around the 8th century. In this recipe, Japanese buckwheat soba noodles saddle up for a new twist on an Italian favorite — spaghetti. Enjoy it with a Sergio Leone film and call it ...

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Empress Yin Lihua of the Eastern Han Dynasty

Yin Lihua from Nanyang (A.D. 5-64) was the empress of the Eastern Han Dynasty. She was a descendant of Guan Zhong, famed prime minister of the State of Qi during the Spring and Autumn Period. As graceful as a cloud, as gentle as a melody, ancient Chinese noblewomen were like water — nurturing to all ...

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10 Warnings From Chinese Philosophy to Guide Modern Life

With the fast pace of modern society, every aspect of the environment seems to be getting more complex. People feel overwhelmed and don’t always know how to cope with things in daily life. As the old saying goes: “What goes up must come down.” There is a limit for everything. Maybe it’s time to get ...

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A Herbal Treatment for Back Pain

Eucommia bark (Du Zhong) is used in traditional Chinese medicine to treat back pain and leg pain. It is also one of the 50 fundamental herbs used in Chinese herbology. According to Chinese legend, a very poor man named Du Zhong relied on cutting firewood for a living. Sometimes he suffered from pain in the ...

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Managing Cancer with Chinese Medicine Principles

The Yellow Emperor’s Inner Canon is an ancient Chinese medical text that is still referred to today. Cancer treatments were documented in ancient times and managing cancer was possible. The principles behind traditional Chinese medicine encompass both the traditional Chinese value of moderation when treating illnesses and the practice of coexistence. Dr. Zhou Lizhong, founder of ...

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How to Find a Good Acupuncturist

Many people wonder how to find a good acupuncturist. To answer this simple question, it is important to understand what acupuncture is and how it works. Acupuncture is a treatment modality of ancient Chinese medicine. Along with the modern version of traditional Chinese medicine, ancient Chinese medicine is a complete medical system passed down to ...

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