Your Guide to Traditional Chinese Medicine
Learn TCM concepts, herbs, acupoints, and wellness practices — explained in plain language.
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TCM Basics
Core concepts like Yin-Yang, Five Elements, Qi, and the organ systems.
🌿Chinese Herbs
A growing database of commonly used Chinese medicinal herbs.
📜Herbal Formulas
Classic and modern herbal combinations explained.
📍Acupoints & Meridians
Explore key acupuncture points and meridian pathways.
👁️TCM Diagnosis
The four diagnostic methods: inspection, auscultation, inquiry, and palpation.
🍵Wellness & Prevention
Seasonal tips, lifestyle advice, and preventive care from a TCM perspective.
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The Holistic Concept in TCM (整体观念): Seeing the Body as One Living System
The holistic concept (整体观念) is the philosophical core of Traditional Chinese Medicine. Learn how TCM sees the body as an inseparable whole, and the human being as part of nature — and why this view still shapes diagnosis and treatment today.
Jingui Yaolue (金匮要略): The Classic That Founded TCM's Treatment of Internal Diseases
The Jingui Yaolue (金匮要略, Essentials from the Golden Cabinet) is Zhang Zhongjing's companion to the Shanghan Lun, dedicated to internal and miscellaneous diseases. Learn its structure, its enduring formulas, and its role in establishing pattern-based herbal medicine.
The Nan Jing (难经): The Classic of Difficult Issues That Sharpened Chinese Medicine
The Nan Jing (难经, Classic of Difficult Issues) is a foundational TCM text traditionally attributed to Bian Que. Learn how its 81 questions reshaped pulse diagnosis, the life-gate, the five-element cycle, and needling technique.
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Quchi (LI11 曲池): The Grand Clearing Point for Heat, Skin, and High Blood Pressure
Quchi (曲池 LI11), the He-sea point of the Large Intestine meridian, is one of TCM's most powerful points for clearing heat. Learn its location, functions for fever, skin disease and hypertension, and safe acupressure techniques.
basicsSyndrome Differentiation in TCM (辨证论治): Why the Same Disease Gets Different Treatments
Syndrome differentiation (辨证论治) is TCM's core clinical method — identifying the underlying pattern (zheng) behind symptoms, not just the disease. Learn the major systems of differentiation and why TCM treats the same illness differently in different people.
diagnosisComplexion Diagnosis in TCM (望面色): Reading Health and Disease in the Color of the Face
Complexion diagnosis (望面色) is the heart of TCM inspection. Learn how the five colors — green, red, yellow, white, and black — map to organs and disease patterns, how to tell normal color from sick color, and what a changed complexion reveals.
diagnosisThe Ten Questions (十问歌): TCM's Time-Tested Guide to Taking a Case History
The Ten Questions (十问歌), first set down by Zhang Jingyue and refined by Chen Xiuyuan, is the classic TCM inquiry framework. Learn each verse, what it reveals about cold, heat, deficiency and excess, and how modern practitioners still use it.
acupointsXuehai (SP10 血海): The Sea of Blood Point for Skin, Menstruation, and Circulation
Xuehai (血海 SP10), 'Sea of Blood,' is a key Spleen meridian point for treating all blood-related disorders. Learn its location, role in skin disease, menstrual and gynecological conditions, and how to apply safe acupressure.
basicsThe Four Great Schools of Chinese Medicine (金元四大家): Fire, Attack, Earth, and Yin
The Jin-Yuan Four Great Schools — Liu Wansu, Zhang Congzheng, Li Dongyuan, and Zhu Danxi — each argued that disease should be treated a different way: by clearing heat, by attacking pathogens, by tonifying the Spleen, or by nourishing Yin. Their debates defined every TCM theory that followed.