19/01/2021
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15/01/2021
Author: Physician Niklas Seet | January 2021 | Zhongjing TCMWhat is insomnia? Insomnia is a term commonly used to describe the inability to fall asleep. Our human body needs at least seven hours of rest per night in order to maintain the necessary physiological processes in our body to achieve health. However, with the advent of technology along with the technological advances and accessibility of services, there is a significant increase in people who are sleeping much later, resulting in the different severities of insomnia. What is the TCM understanding of the condition?In Chinese Medi..
15/10/2020
In TCM, there are two main pathologies – obstruction (不通则痛) and malnourishment (不荣则痛)
Pain due to obstruction (不通则痛) is due to qi stagnation and blood stasis in our meridians, as a result of pathogenic forces and/or external factors.
Pain due to malnourishment (不荣则痛) is due to internal organs or various body parts not getting enough nutrition, or due to chronic disease. Pathogenic factors can also impair the nutritional pathways of the body, leading to malnourishment as well.
In Singapore, the main TCM pathological forces to cause pain are cold 寒and dampness湿. The others, fire, wind, summer-heat and dryness, can also result in pain but are less observed in an average person.