Chinese Medicine Gem

A lot people believe that there is some kind of relationship between anger and high blood pressure. Is that true anger causes high blood pressure? The answer to this question, to some extent, is yes. At least it can be justified from the perspective of Chinese medicine.
In my last post of Types of High Blood [...]

Although the disease of high blood pressure is not documented in any traditional Chinese medicine books, other relevant symptoms, which mentioned in Chinese ancient literature such as “Head wind”, “Headache”, “Vertigo,” “Liver wind”, “Liver-yang” and so on, to some extent are the modern equivalent of high blood pressure.
Symptoms of high blood pressure
From the point of [...]

High blood pressure remedies with Traditional Chinese medicine vary from person to person. In other words, even the patients suffer from the same disease, such as high blood pressure, the remedies could be totally different.
From the point of view of TCM, the key is that we have to differentiate the patients’ syndrome first, and then [...]

Western medicine invented blood pressure meter to coin a newly found disease. They tried everything they could and made up excuses to sell their high blood pressure medicine. This technology, which should benefit health of human being, turns out to be the tool not to allow us a healthy body any more.
High blood pressure is [...]

From the perspective of Western medicine, two key elements result in blood pressure. One is that the heart contraction pumps appropriate blood to arteries, which is the source of blood pressure. The second is the resistance of the veins. Blood can not stay in veins without those resistance, thus pressure can not produce either. From [...]

Modern medicine considers that high blood pressure is one kind of disease. It induces much critical illness such as stroke, cerebrovascular disease and renal failure. Thus high blood pressure is called an invisible killer.
Let us look back to see how high blood pressure emerged?
The blood-pressure meter was invented as the development of modern industry. [...]

Acne treatment and Ge Geng Tang
Ge Geng Tang is a very famous formula,  which originated from Shang Han Lun.  Regularly Ge Geng Tang is used to treat exterior signs and symptoms, such as influenza, pneumonia, bronchitis and chronic shoulder pain etc. But sometimes it can also serve to acne treatment. That is where the magic [...]