While these two herbs lives pages and pages away from each other in the materia medica, in practice patients with signs of the cinnamon twig and astragulas presentations are often puzzlingly similar. Both have signs of spontaneous sweating, both have moist skin, and an aversion to wind will dog both types. Likewise, there often are…
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. . 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…
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