apple.news/A_hLibjAUSnOA080GYL8Zdg This might be an interest clue for the Chinese medicine community. A pathologist is reporting extensive blood clotting in every organ during her autopsies. We also know that people…
Very interesting stuff, given the massive size of the study. Long-term use of Chinese herbal medicine therapy reduced the risk of asthma hospitalization in school-age children: A nationwide population-based cohort…
When you first learn about patterns of Heat during your study of Chinese medicine, it seems that what is being described is inflammation. (I will be capitalizing the word Heat…
Prepared Rehmannia (Shu Di Huang) is one of the most well-known herbs in Chinese medicine. It is the emperor of the famous Six Ingredient Rehmannia Pill or liu wei di…
There's a pretty cool piece of interactive 3D media over here that is useful in visualizing the relationship between the physical organs in the abdomen: https://www.healthline.com/health/human-body-maps/stomach#1 I labeled the first…
I have pulled together a few resources on the pre-modern use of Cannabis in various cultures, including 19th- and early 20th- century American medicine. Doctors and herbalists of all stripes…
Ted Kaptchuk spoke about this subject at a recent Pacific Symposium. I was intrigued, so I did a little digging and discovered that he had also written about the concept of…
Cannabis flower has a recorded history of use in Chinese herbal medicine. However, it was not considered an important herb in recent centuries. Here is an interesting cannabis flower entry from…
Lately, I have been thinking a lot about the effect of natural therapies on gene expression. I found this study on Chinese herbs: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-017-00535-8 Chinese herbs obviously have pharmacological actions…
I have read a few articles recently that mention that the so-called active constituents of many Chinese herbs have very low bioavailability in real-life use cases. A well-known example is…