Health

Foods With 5 Colors Benefit Health the Most

In Chinese culture, food and medicine are closely related. The practice of traditional Chinese medicine places great emphasis on achieving balance in one’s body for the regeneration of the body’s systems and organs. This balance is referred to as yin and yang. An important aspect in attaining a balanced yin and yang is having well-rounded ...

Emma Lu

Foods with five colors.

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 ...

Emma Lu

A plate with light and dark colored food arranged into the yin-yang symbol.

Research Shows How Alcohol Increases Cancer Risk

Scientists can now show how alcohol increases cancer risk by damaging DNA in stem cells. Previous research has looked at the precise ways alcohol causes cancer; however, it has only been done in cell cultures. In this new research, mice have been used to show how alcohol exposure leads to permanent genetic damage. The study consisted of giving ...

Troy Oakes

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 ...

Emma Lu

Music Therapy

Music therapy has developed into a modern science, but it was first developed in China. The Chinese have searched for the secrets of the universe’s melody and rhythm for millennia. Music therapy is part of Chinese medicine, and the two have an interwoven, continuous relationship. Music, the theory of yin and yang, and the five ...

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The Stress Connection: Lower Back Pain

Have you noticed that you have acute flare-ups of lower back pain more often when you are stressed? Whether it is a problem at work or an argument at home, it can be said that we carry the weight of our emotions on our backs. Conversely, when we are in pain, it makes us feel ...

Nspirement Staff

A back massage.

Metal: The Purist Understanding of This Element in TCM

The ability to let go is related to the strength of the metal element in your body. The lungs and the large intestine are the organs that correspond with the metal element. These are the only two organs that open to the outside world, and allow for the release of waste from the body. Teaching ...

Jessica Kneipp

metal door - metal in traditional chinese medicine

3 Foods for Winter

Turnips, pears, and ginger are must-have foods for winter. What makes this odd trio an effective combination during the cold winter months? Turnips aids in digestion, strengthen your immune system, increases your energy, and help prevent cold and flu. Turnips can be consumed both raw and cooked. To eat them raw, cut turnips and carrots ...

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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 ...

Emma Lu

back of mans legs on road jogging

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 ...

Emma Lu

healthy ageing according to traditional chinese medicine black and white photo of old lady with white hair looking at a baby