acupuncture and phytotherapy

Acupuncture point LI20 located in the nasolabial sulcus at the level of insertion of the wings of the nose is known as Yingxiang. Ying translates into good and xiang into smell. Other possible translations include welcomed fragrance or pleasant perfume. The name of this point is due both to its location as their clinical indications. Lying near the nose [...]

Much has I written about what it means qi in Chinese medicine. Much has I written about this concept and the ridiculous manipulations that had victimize this ideogram and that end up systematically with translations as qi is “energy.” The same goes for other Chinese terms as yin and yang that always find them selfs being erroneous [...]

It is noted that diseases in Western medicine has a logical cataloging of symptoms and clinical signs similar to disease in Chinese Medicine than in relation to clinical patterns.
What matters, for the reader, is that the same disease may be presented with different clinical patterns. Imagine a urinary tract infection (urinary infection is a western disease, [...]

Too often I find myself where my discussions were my interlocutors do not well understand what are symptoms, clinical signs, diseases or clinical patterns/syndromes. This text serves to explain exactly what these terms mean.
A symptom is no more than one complaint reported by patients. It refers to something the patient feels as pathological. For example, when a patient [...]