Gossary of Chinese Herbal Medicine
You will find some terms on instruction of Chinese Herbal medicine, that may confuse you a lot. Please read the explaination as below to help you understand better!
Chinese Term/ Explaination
Qi
Qi is regarded as the fundamental substance of the human body, and its movements explain various life processes. It is the inner power which push the blood circulates through the body.
Yin
Generally refers to descending, darkness, degeneration, hypo-activity, including organic disease, woman,etc.
Yang
Generally refers to moving, ascending, bright, progressing, hyperactive, including functional disease of the body, man.
Herbal Medicine
Including herbal materials and formulation
Cold
Temperature characteristics of the herb, or refers to get cold or blood circulates unsmoothly of body.
heat
Temperature characteristics of the herb, or refers to have a fever or some part has inflammation.
wind and wind-damp
Generally refers to arthritis or gout. It is regarded as wind or cold invades the human body to stay in the muscles and joints as foreign bodies in the same peripheral nerve stimulation, blood vessels, muscle and other tissue, causing sluggish blood run an extent which rendered the muscles, joint pain.
toxin
Inflammation, or unknown causes inflammation and infection.
More
Hospitals in China are classified as specialized in western medical system, TCM or both. TCM is now available to 75% of the areas in China. TCM has been very effective in the treatment of diseases such as cardio-cerebro-vascular, immunogenic, tumors, bone fracture, etc. Scientific research and clinic experiments in TCM are continuously progressing. Successes have been made in many of the areas such as in circulating paths of meridians; in Zheng-syndrome, in diagnostic indexes; in therapeutic principles, in healing emergency patients with shock, acute DIC, acute myocardial infarction and acute renal failure. For treatment of bone fracture, method is adopted based on the theory of combination of mobilization and immobilization. Non-antibacterial compound prescriptions are used successfully in treatment of bacterial infection. In treatment of cancers, Fuzheng Guben compound prescriptions, though devoid of inhibitory effects on cancer cells, could cause the shrink of the mass of cancer. TCM provides a non-surgical approach to the treatment of acute abdomen.
Today, TCM and the theory of TCM are applied more in the field of hear care, making-up, sub-health improving and so on. For it’s effectiveness, little side effect and being friendly to environment, TCM are accepted by more and more people in worldwide.
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