7 emotions that affect your health.

Emotions

Each emotion has a particular effect on Qi and affects a certain organ (energetics of that organ). Anger makes Qi rise and affects the Liver. More than any of the other emotions anger should be interpreted very broadly and include several other allied emotions such as resentment, repressed anger, irritability, frustration, rage, indignation, animosity or [...]

Six Evils

Under normal circumstances, the weather will have no pathological effect on the body. The body can adequately protect itself against external environmental factors.  The weather is only a cause of disease or illness when the body is weak. Of course 3,000 years ago it was a life or death factor.  Today with forced central heat [...]

Qi-Understanding the force.

Traditional Chinese Medicine figured out many things before the west did. Physicists have, comparatively recently, determined that the whole world is made of energy. Some of it comes together to make matter and seems solid, but it’s still a bunch of loosely associated particles of energy. That is so simplistic as to nearly be wrong, [...]

It all starts with balance.

I have had requests to know more about the basics of Chinese Medicine.  I will write a series of articles that break things down.  So here goes The first up is Yin & Yang (yong). (I know it is spelled with an A, but it is pronounced with an O.) Earliest references to Yin & [...]