Articles about Chinese Medicine

Note about this page: The latest issue of Positive Health magazine is published on the 4th Thursday of each month. The articles from that issue (or summaries thereof) are placed on this web site on or about the same date.

Seasonal Influences of Five Element Chinese Medicine by Mike Eatough It’s cold. It’s dark. It’s raining. It’s winter. How do I cope? This is winter. The time of Water. Tune to the season.

The Chinese Energetic Method: Conscious Healing, Conscious Living by Accem Scott and Mimi Sandeen The Chinese Energetic Method (CEM) is a hands-off technique that enables both the identification of where energy in the body is out of balance and also moving and changing that energy through conscious awareness.

Menopause – A Chinese Approach by Vicki McKenna The author has been practising acupuncture since she qualified with The College of Traditional Chinese Acupuncture in 1984 and is a founding member of the Scottish Post Polio Network, takes a look at the menopause from the perspective of Chinese medicine.

Eastern Approaches to Clinical Therapy by Gretchen De Soriano This article illustrates the value of Eastern approaches to treatment in cases where individuals have acted as 'gatekeepers' to restoring their own health through making informed choices about the most suitable complementary therapy for their condition. This self-referral by the patient is termed 'higher order integration'.

Medicinal Mushrooms - Ancient Medicine in Modern Times by James Zhou Although mushrooms have been used in Chinese herbal medicine for thousands of years, their medicinal properties and health benefits have now been proved through clinical studies, particularly in preventing or treating serious health conditions such as cancer, hepatitis, AIDS, hyperglycaemia and high cholesterol.

Insomnia - A Chinese Approach by Vicki McKenna Tackling the problem of insomnia from the perspective of Chinese medicine, which states that problems associated with sleeplessness are due to imbalances in 'The Three Treaures': Chi, Shen and Essence.

An Ancient Remedy for Children with Nephrotic Syndrome by Yao Jie Blair To make it easy to understand, it occurs when the kidneys leak large amounts of protein (mostly albumin) into the urine.

Chinese Face Reading for Health by Maura Bright The ancient art of face reading has been used since the time of Confucius by Chinese doctors as an aid to diagnosis and a way of helping their patients. Close observation of the face afforded them a deep knowledge of the personality of their patients.

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The First Chinese Medicine Degree Programme by Henry Lee The watershed for complementary medicine/therapies (CMT) was in 1993 when the British Medical Association acknowledged that CMT’s rise in popularity was not due to a “passing fashion”.

Westerners Learning Complementary Therapies in China by Anna-Louise Haigh Milne The decision to travel to the East to participate in learning about traditional Chinese methods of health care, is not just a geographical journey but rather an expansion of oneself over immeasurable distances.

Why do we become ill? The internal causes of disease by Peter Mole Western and Chinese medicine have radically different views about how we become ill.