. . We learn about in our Chinese medicine textbooks, a certain kind of insubstantial mix of phlegm and qi that collects in the throat… 咽喉異物感Plum Pit Qi. It is a pretty little diagnosis. Sounds very….Asian…Sounds very beautiful, and somehow exotic, but I have yet to have have a patient Western, or Asian, walk into…
Monthly Archives: December 2007
Jade Windscreen
We learned this in our first quarter of Chinese medicine school, and if you read through the advertisements and support materials for any of the multitude of herbal products you will see this…… Jade Windscreen is for building the immune systems in those who easily get colds. I’m one of those people.I’ve easily gotten colds…
Cinnamon is the Chinese aspirin
When I studied Chinese in Taiwan, I always recorded my classes into a little MP3 player. I found that usually I needed to listen to the recording about three times before I really heard and understood everything the teacher said. All of Huang’s lectures in October were recorded for the same reason. There is always…
Ban Xia Constitution
In Chinese medicine school we learned that ban xia is a premier herb for dispersing phlegm, a great medicinal for those kinds of people that were soggy and damp, phlegmy and with the accompanying lethargy that comes from fluids gone rubbery with stagnation.But, none of my books in school made mention of the constitutional type…