Acupuncturists and practitioners of Chinese medicine will certainly advise you to avoid too much fatty food. A "rich man's diet", as the ancients put it, has been known for thousands of years to cause "diseases of the rich" such as diabetes, heart diseases, and some cancers......
The conventional Western medicine has a perspective that acne are being caused by clogged or plugged hair follicles, which are being clogged by the skin’s natural oils, make up and dead skin cells. The traditional Chinese medicine has another point of view: toxins, dampness and heat......
Acupuncture is a needle-based therapy long practiced in traditional Chinese medicine (TCM). According to TCM practitioners, irritable bowel syndrome results from blockages in the body's flow of vital energy (or "chi"), as well as from imbalances within the body's organ systems.
Traditional Chinese medicine recognises two main reasons for constipation. The main reason Chinese medicine practitioners see is a weakness of the large intestine and because of that, it cannot make enough peristaltic or anti-peristaltic movements......
The role of acupuncture in the curative group is in its adjunctive use in anesthesia, in post-operative pain control, and in aiding and hastening recovery from the side effects of the various therapies. Acupuncture is effective for control of pain, of local swelling post-operatively......
Acute gastritis is classified into simple, corrosive, infective and suppurative types of gastritis according to the pathogenic factors. Acute corrosive gastritis is caused by intake of corrosive agents and needs emergent treatment. Acute infective gastritis and suppurative gastritis are caused by general infection. The following discussion focuses on acute simple gastritis marked by pain and discomfort in the upper abdomen, reduced appetite or distension and belching as well as nausea and vomiting. This disease pertains to epigastralgia, vomiting and diarrhea in TCM. Acute gastritis is usually caused by exogenous pathogenic factors and improper diet that lead to dysfunction of the spleen and stomach, failure of gastric qi to descend and upward adverse flow of turbid qi.