Why chronic disease can be cured by Traditional Chinese Medicine

A disease can be treated must based on three basic conditions:

• We can clearly address to what is the route cause of the disease.
• We can have the proper therapy which can directly and effectively address to the root cause of the disease and can change the condition significantly.
• The patients of the disease like to try and can accept and continue the treatment.

From health to illness is not the progress of change from 0 to 1, it is the progress of gradient change of the patient's condition. Even for the virus inflammation,  their will be somebody inflamed but some others not. The people been inflamed usually proved that his/her defensive Qi is week than others. ( Defensive Qi is the concept of TCM, you can refer to another blog named <Think about the Chronic Disease from a different way>for detail) . For chronic disease, usually caused by the weakness, disharmony, or even dysfunction of part or all of the internal organs. One thing need to mention here is that the problem of one internal organ will caused to other internal organ's problem. That is because the internal organs related very closely. The problem of one usually give out the negative influence to the conditions of others. If the problem of internal organs had not been treated properly, most likely it will cause other problems.

That is why the patients of chronic disease usually not have only one disease, they will have others. From TCM point of view. The diseases should be the manifestations of the problem of internal organs. Some diseases is caused by 1-3 internal organ's problem, but some are more complex than it, for example the diabetes. For the western people, maybe this words are very difficult to understand. That is true, this is also hard to be understood even by modern Chinese people. For this is quietly different from the knowledge we get from the Modern Medicine. But the difference is not to say the TCM is wrong. Adversely, it is write. Qi-Gong ( which let people exercise Qi), Gua Sha ( which is the simple therapy that let people change condition), Acupuncture, Chinese herbs, Massage and Cupping, all the therapies are around one thing, the Qi. TCM can give us a effective way which can let us regulate the Qi and effective change the internal organs conditions. That is true. Although for the times problem that TCM can not prove it from the modern way, but it is really work for TCM really can help people improve their health, prevent disease, and cured the disease. To chronic disease, it worked much well. In china, there are some people cured the diabetes by using the combine the Modern Medicine and TCM therapy. This include me. I get the diabetes two years ago. I successfully cured it now. I use the medicine to control my BG, and use Gua Sha and Qi-Gong to improve the conditions of my lungs, spleen, liver, and kidneys. It is really a big success for the Modern Medicine believe that the diabetes can not been cured.

In fact, TCM should be the significant supplement to the Modern Medicine. It can offer the effect which can not get from the Modern Medicine. I really hope this can be pay attention by the professionals of Medicine, both of TCM doctors and the Modern Medicine doctors. I'm not the professional. My experiences of the diabetes let me realized the value and the importance of the combination  of the Modern Medicine and the TCM. The patients really need it.

In summary, the treatment of chronic disease usually should contain at least two parts, control the symptoms and treat the problems. Usually the Modern Medicine are better for control the symptoms, and the TCM is better for treat the problems and change the conditions. It is the good combination of the treatment. It can help people expect to cure the chronic disease. 

In china, lots of people like to try the combined treatment and get good result. But for other people, maybe is because of the difference of the culture, they can not believe what the TCM says. So they will not accept the TCM.  Some of the people had tried the acupuncture, they felt the help but do not believe the cure. For some reason they had not continue the treatment. It is really regretted! They lost the chance. For your disease comes in the inch by inch, the same progress on its gone. For some person who had felt the help, it means it worked to you. You should continue it and it eventually will cure your disease. You lost the chance. This not only means the disease will together with you the whole life, the others will come to you. This will made your life really bad!

TCM, can give us the way to realize what the problem we have, and treat it from a new way. Usually the natural way. It solve the problem by improve the conditions of your internal organs. This will help you change the route cause of your disease. When this done, your disease will gone. That is the way. It can also prevent you from other diseases. It is  really a valuable way on treat disease, and keep your health.


I really hope people can attention and refresh your recognize of TCM. It is not the spam. It can really give you a way to  treat your disease more effective and you really can expect to cure your disease. Been suffered by the chronic disease is really BAD. Why not give yourself a chance?

Self treatment with TCM(Traditional Chinese medicine) Gua Sha

The TCM(Traditional Chinese Medicine) is another scientific medicine.

TCM is a ancient medicine which have thousands of years history. It was created based on the ancient people's ways of understanding the world. Some of the opinion sound strange for the modern people. But is really uncovered lots of the nature which is still important and meaningful today. So it is still valuable to learn, esp. to the individuals who have the health problems.

Since it is old, so it offer more natural therapy which we can used to improve our health from a natural way. In general, TCM can help us to healing illness or diseases by improve our body natural ability. It is quiet a different way but is very helpful to our health. One thing I need to emphasize here is that TCM is not the spam, it is really helpful to our health, esp. on the healing of the chronic disease. I can enable us manage our health and improve our condition by ourselves. It can be used as the assistant of the normal treatment for many disease.

TCM can only be recognized after people tried and got the benefits from it. For some of the chronic disease, TCM is not only the assistant. TCM can be one of the choice of which can help the patient release from the disease. This is because that it can address to the route cause of the disease and can give you the effective way to improve your condition by remove the causes.

TCM Gua Sha.

About Chinese, you will know acupuncture and Qi-Gong for they are more famous and had been recognized by western world. Acupuncture is one of the drug-free therapy of TCM, and Qi-Gong is a series of methods which let people to exercise Qi(the "energy" of life). Even acupuncture, been accepted by western world take a long period of time. About the detail, you can check out here. It is understandable that every "new" things accepted by other group of peoples need a long term of period. With the help of the internet, this term can be exactly shorten.

Gua Sha is another drug-free therapy of TCM. Gua Sha is based on the same theory as acupuncture. The difference is instead of using needles to stimulate the accurate acupoints, Gua Sha therapy can yield the same result by scraping the proper area on your skin with simple Gua Sha tools. Gua Sha stimulates the immune system, detoxifies and de-acidifies, promotes the circulation, regulates functions and organs, removes blockades and pain, revitalizes and regenerates ("life-extension"), diminishes stress, fatigue and burn-out, improves and cures countless chronic disorders and complaints, rebalances emotions, relaxes and promotes clarity of mind...everything through ONE simple treatment. This is real, not the exaggeration. It had been widely proved by lots of Chinese people around the world. Now it is the time for western world to get to know about it.

Why we need Gua Sha?

Somebody will have the question that:"Since we already have the acupuncture, why we still need to know Gua Sha?" The answer is:" Gua Sha is more EASY!"

Gua Sha and acupuncture follow the same theory, but Gua Sha is more easy. For acupuncture need the professional practitioner who know the very accurate position of the acupoints to practice. Even in China, to find out a good practitioner is not easy. It need you pay money and time. But Gua Sha do not need you know so much. You only need to know to treat your disease, where is the proper areas. For it is using the board to scrap the skin, it is more easy then plug a needle into human's body.

For the difficult of find out the good practitioner, usually Gua Sha can offer more effective result then acupuncture.

Gua Sha tools only include a board, used for scrap the skin, and Gua Sha oil, used for lubricate the skin. It is very cost less and very easy to get.

Gua Sha technique are very easy to learn. What you need to do is just scraping, with the proper direction and proper stress and speed.

For Gua Sha is so simple and easy to practice, it is very very fit to patients to do self treatment at home. For patients of chronic diseases, it is a very good choice to give him/her self a continually treatment. To cure chronic disease, the continually treatment and condition improvement is necessary.

What can be expected from Gua Sha?

Gua Sha can be used for acute and chronic disease. But for the basic theory of TCM, we suggest to use the therapies of TCM on the chronic disease. TCM treat disease usually not direct at the symptoms, but always address to the route cause. It healing disease by change the underlying condition. So maybe you will feel the effect comes slow. And some of the diseases need to relief the symptoms soon. For example, asthma. When in asthma attack, some serious patient will facing to the dangerous of can not breathing. It is obviously that open the airways as soon as possible is necessary. In this case, you should you the steroid but not Gua Sha. But after this period, Gua Sha can effectively prevent the attack come again. So the conclusion here, TCM and the modern medicine should be combined on treating some diseases. Except the emergency case, Gua Sha is more fit to the treat of chronic disease. For asthma, just after the first time of treatment, the patient can feel the comfort and pleasant which he/she never felt before. This kind of relief can also been expected by the patients of bronchitis, frozen shoulder, and migraine headache, and even the heartburn patients.

For chronic disease treatment, Gua Sha should be applied to both in attack and between attack. What Gua Sha can offered is not only the relief, in can give the very positive effect on change your condition. So continue apply this therapy, you can eventually cure the disease.

Use Gua Sha Now.

In China, Gua Sha is used very widely. It had become one of the health care skill by people. People usually use it to relief pain and keep good health. It is really effective and affordable.

Since there are lots of people around the world been suffered by chronic disease, I hope the Gua Sha therapy can be widely known and used by the people who do not know it currently.

Maybe you still have the doubt to Gua Sha now. That is not the problem. Just try one time. You must can know if I'm right or wrong. The most simple way to try it is just find a tools with a round edge(maybe the back of comb is ok), use some oil lubricate the skin of pain area, and scrap there. You will see the Sha Mark (red spot) come out and feel relief just after the Sha Mark do gone out at all. You must be able to feel it is effective.

This is the most simple way to prove if it work for you. For Gua Sha treatment, there are specific scraping areas for specific diagnosis of disease. You need the specific guidance to treat a specific disease.

A drug free therapy is needed in chronic disease treatment.

It is known to all that almost all drugs has side effect. At this point, there are no difference between the Modern Medicine and TCM. TCM doctor usually say :"是药三分毒" means all Chinese herbs have the side effect. In some case, we have to use drugs, but some others are not. For some chronic disease, use medicine for long time will get seriously harm to health. For example for diabetes. We know that diabetic need to use drugs to control the blood sugar level. Some of the drugs have the side effect which harm to liver and kidneys. From the TCM perspective, the diabetes most likely caused by the weakness of kidneys. That is to say the drugs caused the conflict between control symptoms and improve the condition. Maybe that is one of the reason why the type II diabetic finally need to use the injection of insulin.

To chronic disease, which means long term, even life long disease, will need lots of drugs, the side effect of drugs must be the big concern. So a drug-free therapy is really valuable to try.

Some disease can be cured by the therapy combined TCM and modern medicine.

Here I also use the diabetes as the example. In china, there are lots of success story about cure diabetes by using the combination of Chinese and Western Medicine. Some of the is not delivered by the hospital, just by the diabetics themselves. Here I mentioned one to describe it. The same, treat diabetes need two parts, treat with the symptoms (control the blood sugar level) and improve the condition. In control the blood sugar level, obviously the western medicine have the more better effect. This person use the Taiji (exercise Qi) to improve his condition. He cured his diabetes six month later.

From this example, we can get three points:

• Diabetes can be cured by effectively change the condition. 
• Self treatment is important for chronic disease treatment. 
• The combination of Chinese and Western Medicine is more powerful. 

Think about some questions.

TCM is old, but this not means it is wrong. It give us the other way to know about our disease and to treat it. Since we can not get good treatment from the medicine, why not try it?

TCM had the history of thousands of years. What made it live so long?

What is the reason that TCM do not fit to me?

What will you lost by just try it?

Why do not give yourself a chance to find out a way to treat effective with your chronic disease?

About chronic bronchitis self-treatment with TCM Gua Sha

Bronchitis and chronic bronchitis.

Bronchitis is an inflammation of the lining of your bronchial tubes, which carry air to and from your lungs. Bronchitis may be either acute or chronic, meaning that it lasts a long time and often recurs.

Often developing from a cold or other respiratory infection, acute bronchitis is very common. Chronic bronchitis, a more serious condition, is a constant irritation or inflammation of the lining of the bronchial tubes, often due to smoking.


Acute bronchitis usually improves within a few days without lasting effects, although you may continue to cough for weeks. However, if you have repeated bouts of bronchitis, you may have chronic bronchitis, which requires medical attention. Chronic bronchitis is one of the conditions included in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD).

TCM look bronchitis from a different way.


In traditional Chinese medical studies, bronchitis belongs to the category of Ke Sou (cough) and Tan Yin (excessive of sputum). TCM considers that lungs manage the ventilation of gases and respiratory system; if the lungs are exposed to diseases, they will result in stoppage of ventilation of gases and it shall yield cough. The spleen is responsible for the homeostasis of fluid, absorption of nutrients, increased of metabolism, if the spleen is not functioning properly, the lungs will loss nourishment, so dampness will be accumulated in the lungs, causing the imbalance of gases and resulted in whitish and sticky sputum.

If coldness of the lungs gradually turns to heat or the lungs structures are affected directly by heat, it will cause fever, trembling, greenish-yellowish sticky sputum; all these symptoms belong to the heat signs. If the gases in the lungs move abnormally and cannot descend to the normal condition, it will then cause dyspnea in lying position.

TCM Gua Sha self-treatment method of chronic bronchitis.


Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) is a method of medicine that looks at the patient in a very different way from Western Medicine. Where Western medicine has developed a system of diagnosis whereby the same disease or problem is treated with a similar treatment plan for each patient, TCM examines where the patient is "out of harmony" and strives to treat that, so as to bring the patient back "in harmony" and so make them well.

An example of this is how bronchitis is treated. In Western medicine, a patient with bronchitis may be prescribed with antibiotics, while in TCM such a patient would be examined to see if they were out of harmony with the external forces (in this case, Wind or Cold), and to see what internal forces were out of sync as well (in this case a Deficient Spleen or Lung).

Recent findings point increasingly to TCM as a viable method of non-invasive treatment for a variety of diseases and medical problems.

Gua Sha is an ancient Chinese therapy appears to be at least one thousand years old, and has been proved to be extremely effective in treating both chronic and acute disorders such as asthma, bronchitis, headache, heatstroke, pain and stiffness etc.

Gua Sha is based on the same theory as acupuncture. The difference is instead of using needles to stimulate the accurate acupoint; Gua Sha therapy can yield the same result by scraping the proper area on your skin with simple Gua Sha tools.
Gua Sha helps stimulating the immune system, detoxifies and de-acidifies, promotes the circulation, regulates functions and organs, removes blockades and pain, revitalizes and regenerates ("life-extension"), diminishes stress, fatigue and burn-out, improves and cures countless chronic and acute disorders and complaints, rebalances emotions, relaxes and promotes clarity of mind... everything through ONE simple treatment.

The technique of Gua Sha is very easy to learn and practice. And it is drug free and no known side effect. It is the most affordable, practical, safe and effective way in treating and controlling your bronchitis.You will feel an immediate relief from the symptoms and be able to breathe freely.

About heartburn self-treatment with TCM Gua Sha

Heartburn is a painful disease.

Also known as pyrosis or acid indigestion has a painful burning feeling just below or behind the breastbone. It usually comes from the esophagus. The pain often rises in the chest and may radiate to the neck, throat, or angle of the jaw.

Despite its name, heartburn has nothing to do with the heart. It is an irritation of the esophagus that is caused by stomach acid. Heartburn happens when the LES of stomach opens too often or does not close tight enough, so the stomach acid can reflux, or seep, into the esophagus and cause a burning sensation.

Incidental heartburn is not serious. However, if you have heartburn frequently, it can lead to esophagitis. If esophagitis becomes severe, your esophagus might narrow and you might have bleeding or trouble swallowing. It will be very painful and may cause other diseases.

TCM look the heartburn from a different way and address the root cause to liver and stomach.

Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) understands heartburn as a Liver and Stomach function disorder. Often, Western medicine does not make this critical connection between the Liver and the Stomach and their need to function in harmony and will focus solely on the latter organ. Treating only the Stomach may help alleviate the symptoms, but not the root cause of GERD (Gastroesophageal reflux disease).

In TCM theory, the Liver and the Stomach organ networks are very closely related. The Liver "controls" or restrains the Stomach if the Stomach's energy (called "Qi" in Chinese) becomes unbalanced or too excessive. From the TCM perspective the Liver is the organ related to the intense emotions—anger, stress and frustration. Liver energy naturally rises and flows outward. If these emotions are excessively intense or held chronically over a long period of time, because of the Liver's close energy connection with the Stomach, its excess energy can be conveyed to the Stomach, causing a reverse in the flow of the Stomach's energy. Stomach Qi naturally flows downward, yet too much emotion can cause it to move upward, which can result in the uncomfortable symptoms of GERD.

TCM Gua Sha treat heartburn from a different way.

For centuries, doctors of TCM have been treating the symptoms we now call GERD with an array of natural treatment modalities, such as acupuncture and Gua Sha. TCM treatment in heartburn is to balance the function of the Liver and Stomach.

This ancient Chinese therapy appears to be at least two thousand years old, and has been proved to be extremely effective in treating countless chronic and acute disorders such as gastrointestinal diseases,asthma, bronchitis, headache, heatstroke, pain and stiffness. It has an incredible effect on various diseases caused by functional disharmony of the internal organs.

Gua Sha is based on the same theory as acupuncture. The difference is instead of using needles to stimulate the accurate acupoints, Gua Sha therapy can yield the same result by scraping the proper area on your skin with simple Gua Sha tools.

Gua Sha stimulates the immune system, detoxifies and de-acidifies, promotes the circulation, regulates functions and organs, removes blockades and pain, revitalizes and regenerates ("life-extension"), diminishes stress, fatigue and burn-out, improves and cures countless chronic disorders and complaints, rebalances emotions, relaxes and promotes clarity of mind...everything through ONE simple treatment.

Heartburn attacks are frightening and painful. The technique of Gua Sha is very easy to learn and practice. And it is drug free and no known side effect. It is the most affordable, practical, safe and effective way in treating and controlling your heartburn.

About asthma self-treatment with TCM Gua Sha

About asthma.

Also known as Bronchial asthma; Exercise-induced asthma.

Asthma is an allergic condition that affects the respiratory tract. It is long lasting (chronic), however the individual episodes of asthmatic signs and symptoms may be short lived. There is inflammation in the airways, meaning white blood cells have been activated and chemicals involved with immunity (such as histamine) are present in the airways. The airways are also hyperresponsive, which means that they will narrow (bronchoconstriction) with certain triggers that wouldn't cause the airways to narrow in many other unaffected people. There is also an increased amount of mucus in the airways too during an exacerbation of asthma. This causes the typical signs and symptoms of coughing, wheezing, shortness of breath (especially on exertion), and a tightness in the chest.Asthma is a dynamic disease, meaning that it can vary hugely between people and over time.

TCM looks asthma from a different way and offer different therapies.

Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) holds that the occurrence of this virtual asthma is phlegmy inside out, and fell on his lungs. Lung have empty. In the external cause infection, by eating disorders, sentiment, overstrain body, lead to such factors as the sputum resistance airway, lung gas on inverse, appear a series of the signs and symptoms of asthma. Main exogenous because of wind, cold, heat, wet pathogen and diet sour, salty, and Ian, fat, etc, or because of angered, too tired and lungs gas lift disorderly, sputum rise happens inverse gas resistance, lung disease and adverse gas unobstructed.

Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) views asthma as a condition that develops when the body does not produce enough of a quality, called defensive Qi. Defensive Qi protects the body from attack by external factors, such as heat and cold. Defensive Qi is a type of energy produced by the kidneys and distributed by the lungs over the surface of the body. When either the kidneys or lungs (or both) do not function properly, the amount of defensive Qi available is reduced and the body becomes more susceptible to diseases, such as asthma.

TCM Gua Sha give you a way to treat asthma with self-treatment.


As asthma was caused by the disharmony or deficiency of kidneys and/or lungs, so the treatment should be focusing in regulating Yin-Yang, which will nourish the deficiency of kidneys and lungs, and regulate the flow of Qi, and as a result remove the root cause of asthma. By rising the function of lung, it will influence the function of kidneys, which will generate more defensive Qi and lower the trigger of asthma, and eventually cure the asthma.

Gua Sha, the ancient Chinese therapy appears to be at least two thousand years old, and has been proved to be extremely effective in treating both chronic and acute disorders such as headache, asthma, bronchitis, heatstroke, pain and stiffness.

Gua Sha is based on the same theory as acupuncture. The difference is instead of using needles to stimulate the accurate acupoint. Gua Sha therapy can yield the same result by scraping the proper area on your skin with simple Gua Sha tools.
In general Gua Sha helps stimulating the immune system, detoxifies and de-acidifies, promotes the circulation, regulates functions and organs, removes blockades and pain, revitalizes and regenerates ("life-extension"), diminishes stress, fatigue and burn-out, improves and cures countless chronic and acute disorders, complaints, rebalances emotions, relaxes and promotes clarity of mind...everything through ONE simple treatment.

The theory of Gua Sha therapy in treating asthma is to stimulate the acupoints which helps to promote and regulate the functions of kidneys and lungs. Through sessions it will effectively reduce the frequency and severity of attacks, and eventually cure the disease completely.

The technique of Gua Sha is very easy to learn and practice. And it is drug free and no known side effect. It is the most affordable, practical, safe and effective way in treating and controlling your asthma.

About the migraine headache self-treatment with TCM Gua Sha

Some basic knowledge about the Migraine headache.

Migraine is a common type of headache that may occur with symptoms such as nausea, vomiting, or sensitivity to light. Migraine headaches generally represent no significant threat to your overall health. However they can be a long-term (chronic) problem and may interfere with your day-to-day life.

Migraine headaches tend to first appear between the ages of 10 and 45. Sometimes they may begin later in life. Migraines occur more often in women than men.

In US there are about 78 millions of people have experienced migraine attacks. It is painful and occurs irregularly. There is no specific cure by modern medicine, and their goal is to prevent symptoms by avoiding or changing your triggers.


TCM diagnosis the migraine as a problem caused by the internal organs.

Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) treat human as a whole system, but not the composite of different organs and human tissues. TCM considers migraine headache as a result of disturbance or imbalance of Yin-Yang within the Zang-Fu organ system or the Channel system.

In TCM, one type of migraine is caused by the disharmony of the liver system. Liver is the organ system that regulates the flow of Qi as well as stores the soul (relate to mental activities). The regular flow of Qi regulates emotional activity, and the disharmony of liver system will cause the deficiency of Yin energy or excess Yang energy. Therefore, it will cause the unbalance of Yin and/or Yang, and the irregular Qi flow and blood stasis will result in the symptoms of migraine headache. It usually is conjunction with the emotional strain and stress.

Another type of migraine was caused by the deficiency of kidney. TCM believes that kidney energy promotes liver energy. The kidney deficiency will cause the liver Yin deficiency and trigger headache. The liver Qi stagnation and kidney deficiency may co-exist in the same patient.


You can treat migraine with Gua Sha therapy and do self-treatment at home.

As migraine was caused by the disharmony or deficiency of organ systems, so the treatment should be focusing in regulating Yin-Yang, which will nourish the deficiency of organs system, and regulate the flow of Qi, and as a result remove the root cause of headache.TCM Gua Sha can offer you the effective way to do this.

Gua Sha, the ancient Chinese therapy appears to be at least two thousand years old, and has been proved to be extremely effective in treating both chronic and acute disorders such as headache, asthma, bronchitis, heatstroke, pain and stiffness.

Gua Sha is based on the same theory as acupuncture. The difference is instead of using needles to stimulate the accurate acupoint; Gua Sha therapy can yield the same result by scraping the proper area on your skin with simple Gua Sha tools.The theory of Gua Sha therapy in treating migraine headache is to stimulate the acupoints which helps to promote and regulate the functions of kidney and liver. Through sessions it will effectively reduce the frequency and severity of attacks, and eventually cure the disease completely.

In general Gua Sha helps stimulating the immune system, detoxifies and de-acidifies, promotes the circulation, regulates functions and organs, removes blockades and pain, revitalizes and regenerates ("life-extension"), diminishes stress, fatigue and burn-out, improves and cures countless chronic and acute disorders and complaints, rebalances emotions, relaxes and promotes clarity of mind...everything through ONE simple treatment.

The technique of Gua Sha is very easy to learn and practice. And it is drug free and no known side effect. It is the most affordable, practical, safe and effective way in treating and controlling your migraine headache.


Migraine headache need to be treated more effective for it can cause some serious complications.
The negative effect of migraine headache offered is not only the pain during attack. For it is the reflection of the problem or your liver and/or kidney, it most likely will cause some other problems such as asthma, frozen shoulder, rheumatoid arthritis, and so on.

Liver Qi stagnation usually caused bad-tempered, and will be more harmful to your health. As TCM believe that the kidney are closely related to the human reproduction, so the deficiency of kidney will usually cause the sexual dysfunction.


One more thing need to mentioned here is migraine preventive drugs, apart from their relative inefficacy, is that unpleasant side effects are common such as insomnia, sedation or sexual dysfunction. This is because the drugs is harmful to the health of kidney.


TCM Gua Sha can offer you the drugs free way to solve the problem of liver and/or kidney. It has no known side effect, and can relief you from the pain soon. So it can be the better choice for the self-treatment of migraine.

Treat chronic disease with self-treatment

Chronic disease means life long and difficult to be cured. Some of the chronic disease attack suddenly, such as asthma, migraine, heartburn, and chronic bronchitis. And some of others stay with you day to day, such as diabetes, and frozen shoulder. All these chronic disease suffering the patients and will offer a hard damage to patient in term of health. It will also offer a seriously negative influence to the life quality.

To successful treat with the chronic disease will need first to address the route cause of those disease. The Chinese Traditional Medicine(TCM) have a very different way on realize those disease. Maybe you will think that some of the theory of the TCM is unbelievable, even wrong. But it really doesn't matter, if you had try the therapy, you will know it can offer you the way to treat with the disease.

TCM is a ancient medicine, and the theory is based on the ancient realization of the world by the ancient people.  What they realized is not wrong, just the different way from us. It is based on lots of observation and research and lots of success practice. It had been proved that it work for thousands of years. It is difficult to be accepted by western people because that the western people's knowledge about health are based on the the modern medicine. They are quietly the different way.

For western people, know something about TCM is meaningful. It can offer you the difference in the following way:
1) Try to treat your disease from another way. Since the modern medicine can not offer you the good way to treat it, why not to try another way?
2) TCM are very focus on evaluate your health and disease by analysis the condition of your internal organs(which I had mentioned in another post). And all the therapy it can offered is to adjust and regulate the condition of your internal organs. This is what the modern do not offered to you. It will work by improve your condition.
3) TCM can offer you the therapy which is really drug free, such as the acupuncture, and the Gua Sha. Gua Sha is very easy to learn and practice and can offer you more effective way on treat with your disease.
4) Gua Sha is the safe therapy and can be practiced by yourself for self-treatment. You can treat your chronic disease at home. This will save you a lot in terms of money and time. And for the chronic disease usually need a long term to recover, the benefits of saving is obviously.

In Summary, the effectiveness of Gua Sha includes:

~ Stimulates the immune system,
~ detoxifies and de-acidifies,
~ promotes the circulation,
~ regulates functions and organs,
~ removes blockades and pain,
~ revitalizes and regenerates ("life-extension"),
~ diminishes stress, fatigue and burn-out,
~ improves and cures (indirectly) countless (chronic) disorders and complaints,
~ rebalances emotions, relaxes and promotes clarity of mind

Gua Sha is very fit with the self-treatment of chronic disease. It can offer you the very good result. Just try it!

Currently we can offer the guidance of apply Gua Sha to the following disease:

Asthma,

Heartburn,

Frozen shoulder,

Migraine,

Chronic bronchitis.

We plan to offer more in the future.

Think about the Chronic Disease from a different way.

Why Chronic Diseases can not been cured?

If a disease was defined as a chronic diseases, it usually means it is a long term, even a life-long disease. It means the patient will been suffered by the disease in the rest of his/her life. What a mess?

If we what to cure a disease, we must first know what cause it. Then we try to change the condition, and the disease can be cured. For lots of the chronic diseases, the root cause can not been addressed accurately, so the treatment can only to the symptoms. Obviously, this will not properly change the condition of the root cause, and can not cure the disease, then made this disease a chronic one. In fact, the chronic diseases can be cured!

What is TCM?

By the simple of word, TCM is the acronym of the Traditional Chinese Medicine. Maybe you will think that the TCM is really difficult to understand, and it has no means to me. Don't hurry! I will let you know that the TCM's meaningful to your health, esp. when you are a chronic disease. I will explain it to you by the words you can easily understand. And you can find out the way to cure your chronic disease from here. That's the fact, not the advertisement.

Why TCM?

TCM can address the route cause of chronic disease and offer you the right therapy to cure your chronic disease. Honestly, even in China. There are no much people know TCM well. The convention is that when people got a sick, they go to the hospital directly. And they will think that more bigger the hospital is, much brilliant the treatment does. Is it the real? Usually after they spent a lot of money and had not got achieve expectation, they will seek for other therapy, and they will choose the TCM.

Now you will have the problem about why Chinese do not know TCM well? That is because the language issue. For TCM is a ancient medicine, almost all the documents are writing in ancient Chinese, which have the great difference with the modern Chinese. Even for Chinese person, it is really difficult to understand. And also, for the TCM is developed by the ancient Chinese people, the method they used to recognize the world is different from modern people, so it is another difficult point for modern people to understand it. But the TCM is really the great legacy for human beings in term of health.

About Chinese，you may heard about the Kung Fu, Qi Gong, Acupuncture, and so on. They all tightly relative to the base of Chinese Culture. So if you can understand some base knowledge, you will be easy to know deeper about Chinese culture. And you can know TCM well. The benefit of it is you can find the right and the practicable way to treat your chronic disease and to improve your health.

There are lots of success stories about the cure of diabetes in China. I use the diabetes as the example if for it is really a complex disease, and the can not be cured by the Modern Medicine. But there a lots of Chinese diabetic successful changed their life to normal. They do not need the drugs or the insulin anymore. They realized it by use the combined therapy of the Modern Medicine，the TCM，and Qi Gong. This significantly proved that the TCM is valuable to be learnt. The diabetes is almost the most complex chronic disease. This kind of therapy can cure almost all of the chronic diseases.

Begin from understand about "Qi".


Chinese culture have the history more than 5,000 years old. It took shape and developed by the ancient Chinese people. At that time, Chinese people believe that "Qi" is the base element that construct the whole world, of course, including the human body. The TCM was developed base on this kind of believing.

In the TCM, the "Qi" have two means. One is the nutriment of the drink and food, it flow in the body. The other is the describe of the life actions of the internal organs. We can now just treat it as the "energy" by simple.

What is Yin-Yang?

Yin and Yang are the concept of dialectics. The reinforce each other. Yin means the gather of "Qi", Yang means disperse and comsume of "Qi". Yin include Yang and vice visa. In TCM, all the parts of body have Yin and Yang. Yin and Yang need to be balanced for health. The imbalance of Yin and Yang will lead to disease. For example, somebody will have the problem of the weakness of Yin on kidney, this will means that he/she will have no enough capability to gather and store "Qi" (energy). This will lead to the exhaust of Yang. The Symptom will be his/her hand is warm and dry. Long term of this problem will lead to the both weakness of Yin and Yang, caused to weakness and illness. So the TCM emphasis about the balance of Yin and Yang. All the treatment of TCM is to re-regulate the balance of Yin and Yang.

Yin and Yang give us the capability to evaluate the condition of our health by the simple way. The TCM doctor and also give us the simple way to deal with our illness, improve our health. It is all about the operate of  "Qi".

What is Zang-Fu?

TCM believe that diseases are relative with internal organs. TCM categorize internal organs to Zang and Fu. Zang include heart, liver, spleen, lung and kidney. Fu include all the others. Zang have the same character that they are all solid. Fu are all hollow. In Chinese, Zang have the meaning of storing. All the energy are relevant with Zang. The major function of Fu is to absorb the nutrition, and eliminate the waste. Let's have a look of what the major functions of Zang.

Heart:

TCM believe that heart have two major function.
The 1st is to manage the blood and the  vessel.
The 2nd is to control the spirit.
The heart actutate the blood flow in the vessel.

Liver:

Liver contain 3 major functions.
1st is to store and accommodate the amount of the blood.
2nd is to manage the release of emotion.
3rd is to manage the tendon.

Spleen:
Spleen have 3 major functions.
1st is to manage the digestion and transport of nutrition.
2nd is to contain the blood flow in the vessel.
3rd is to manage the muscle.

Lung:
Lung have 3 major functions.
1st is to control Qi's rising and down in the body.
2nd is to regulate the channel of water in the body.
3rd is to manage the skin and hair.

Kidney:

Kidney have 5 major functions.

1st to store the Jing(the essence of life). It contain two part. One part is the original essence inherit from parents. The other part is collected in the life.

2nd is to manage the water.

3rd is to maange the bone of human.

4th is to manage the store of Qi (energy).

5th is to manage the urinating and defecating.

TCM believe that the Zang and Zang, Zang and Fu are related together tightly. All the functions need to depends the regular functions of others. A little complex indeed.

What is the TCM opinion about chronic disease?

Some of the chronic diseases have the characters of constancy, for examples diabetes, hypertension, frozen shoulder,and rheumatoid arthritis
. And some others have the characters of paroxysmal, such as asthma, chronic bronchitis, migraine headache, heartburn. They all caused about the weakness and/or dysfunction of internal organs, or the disharmony between internal organs. At this point, TCM are quite different from the Modern Medicine. TCM can address to the route caused of those chronic diseases. At this point, maybe you will think it is unbelivable. But it is right, for the TCM therapy base on this kind of diagnosis did really work well. So, for different kind of chronic diseases, TCM offer different therapy to change the condition and cure the disease can be the final result.

The healthy level of your organs will decide the healthy level of your body. If you fall ill into a chronic disease, it means that your relevant organs had a bad condition which is enough to make you get in sick. That is really bad, for it may also possible to cause other diseases. So you need to find out the right way to treat it properly.

TCM usually treat chronic disease by using different kinds of therapy to regulate the Yin and Yang, re-balance, and rising them. As you got in sick is the result of accumulate problem day by day, the gain back of the health will also take times. So usually you will not feel about the effect in a short term. But it works. And when you can observe the result, it means that the problem had been solved.

What are the therapies of TCM?

Gua Sha，acupuncture, and Chinese herbs are three most popular therapy in TCM. There are also massage, which you can also treat it as a therapy. For Chinese herbs is really impossible be used for western people, we stop to talk about it. So let just talk about the acupuncture and Gua Sha. As you know that acupuncture is to use the needle to stimulate the channels to take effect, Gua Sha do the same thing by scraping the skin of the proper area of the body. For acupuncture using the needle, so it require the practitioner to know the accurate position of the acupoints. It is really challenge. So you need to do the treatment to the TCM clinic and it must be practiced by the professional. Gua Sha, take the same effect with acupuncture but do not need to know the acupoints very accurately. You only need to know the area, you can practice the Gua Sha. So you can do the treatment by yourself, that is way we call the self-treatment. Gua Sha is very fit to be used by the patients of chronic disease to solve their health problem.

What is needed if I want to try Gua Sha by myself?

1, A Gua Sha Board of something with the round edge.
2, A bottle of Gua Sha oil or message oil.
3, The guidance for specific chronic disease.

Here are some of them you can have:
Asthma, heartburn, migraine, bronchitis, frozen shoulder.

You can also find out the detail introduction here:
Gua Sha self-treatment(guashast), asthma self-treatment(AsthmaST),heartburn self-treatment(HeartburnST), frozen shoulder self-treatment(FzshoulderST), migraine self-treatment(MigraineST), chronic bronchitis self-treatment(BronchitisST).

Now you see, that the Gua Sha is very easy to practice and very affordable.

About the PAIN of frozen shoulder

I had described my opinion about the cause of the F S pain in another my post named <Some Questions about Frozen Shoulder treatment> . But maybe for I had not say it very clearly, someone still have question about it. So I'd like to say something more detail in this post. Hope it can be helpful to the patient to know F S well.

Normally we split the F S into 3 stages. In the 1st stage, there will be a inflammation and is quite much painful, but the limitation of the movement is not the most serious condition. In the 2nd stage, the inflammation had gone, the pain are decreased, and you will feel pain when you press the shoulder with fingers. In this stage, the limitation of movement is much serious then the first stage. In the 3rd stage, the pain completely gone, but the shoulder still frozen. In this stage, some of the patient will feel that the frozen begin to "thawing" or recovery. But someone else will not feel that and his/her frozen become a permanent one. I think lots of F S patient know this well. Now I just explain why these from my point of view.

Stage 1, is the period which the frozen take shape. In this period, the number of the crystals are increasing. The tissue and cells do not fit with the new "neighbour" and generated lots of negative response, such as inflammation and pain. But for the bad circulation in the tissue, the crystals are still increasing, and the frozen are trend to be more seriously.

In stage 2, the tissue and muscle had tightly conglutinated together. This does not only limited the movement, but also the circulation of blood. As the result, the crystals will no longer increase, and the tissue had fitted the new status that stay together with the crystals. So the inflammation and the pain gone, and you can only feel pain just at the time the tissue was pressed. This is because the pressure will generate the relative movement of the tissue and the crystals, and the crystals harm to the cells.

In stage 3, the frozen had reached the most seriously status. The pain complete gone and the frozen most tightly. There will be no pain is for there will be no relative movement between crystals and the cells.

Hope this can solve someone's problem about the pain. And your comments is really appreciated!

Some Questions about Frozen Shoulder treatment

All the people been suffered or be suffering by the frozen shoulder will be familar with this picture. It explain what happened to your shoulder. But if you know something much detail of that? Let me explain it to you.

Question: What froze my shoulder? Why it is painful?
Answer:It is known that tight, constricted myo-fascial tissue will become compromised in terms of blood supply and lymphatic drainage (ie its capacity to remove wastes from the tissue). Lactic and uric acid, both bi-products of energy production in the cells (metabolism), can concentrate within these compromised areas and both, along with calcium, are capable of crystallizing. The result is accumulations of acidic crystalline toxins within the myo-fascial structures of the body which contribute to dysfunction and increased levels of pain. When you try to move, the sharp edge of the crystals will harm to the surround tissue.As well the constricted tissue, which has hindered the lymphatic system in its removal of the metabolic wastes, is also capable of trapping the subcutaneous superficial nerves. These nerves, tethered in the tissue, are unable to stretch as they need to as the body moves. Their self-protective response is to begin to lock down the surrounding muscles to restrict movement as much as possible with obvious consequences in terms of function and subsequent pain. This froze your shoulder.

So，in short, you shoulder was frozen by the crystals generated from the metabolism and had not been removed for the bad condition of the circulation of your shoulder tissue. This is way you will get the frozen shoulder and why it offer pain to you.

Someone had question about the detail of the pain. So I add another post here which explained it in detail. It is named <About the PAIN of frozen shoulder>. Your access and comments are welcome.

Question: How to treat with the frozen shoulder?
Answer:To treat frozen shoulder, we must find a way which can help us to remove those crystals from the tissue. In the Modern Medicine, there seems no effective way to to it. The oral medicine and cortisone injection, both to treat with the "inflamation" but not the crystals. So it will not relief the pain. The physical treatment is right, for it can help to increase circulation of the shoulder area, but not effective. It will need to take a long term of treatment, and it is also very painful to the patient.

Till now the most effective way to treat frozen shoulder is Gua Sha. By simply use a Gua Sha board (Scraper) scraping the skin, the sharp edge of the board generate the pressure to the tissue can both move the crystals out from tissue and improve the circulation. It is the the quickest method to relief your pain and improve his/her condition. Although, you will feel pain during the treatment, but this pain is not generate by the scrap, but by the sharp edge of the crystals as they contact the surrounding tissue. Usually, as the result of Gua Sha, the Sha mark will appear on the skin. It was caused by the sharp edge of crystals rupturing microscopic capillaries that causes the ecchymosis and subcutaneous blemishing, we call it Sha mark.

The patient of frozen shoulder will experience a release and relief just after the stroking ceases, for the crystals been moved out from the tissue.

Question: Where to get the Gua Sha treatment?
Answer: For Gua Sha is very easy to learn and very easy to practice, you can do the treatment by yourself. Gua Sha tools are very simple, you need only a Gua Sha Board (Scraper) and a bottle of Gua Sha Oil. The board is used to scraping the skin, and the oil is used for lubricate the skin. For applyGua Sha therapy to treat forzen shoulder, there are only one thing you need to know. That is, which parts of my body need to be scraped. For give out the detail guidance of how to master Gua Sha technique and how to apply Gua Sha Therapy to treat with frozen shoulder, I just made a iPhone App which had already uploaded into the App Store. You can just follow the guidance, and implement the most effective treatment just by yourself.

Just click HERE will navigate you to the App directly. All the answers to the questions about how to treat frozen shoulder with Gua Sha Therapy can be checked out from the App. You can also access my website to see more contents about other chronic disease. There are also the Simplified Chinese and Traditional Chinese support on my website.

Question: Where to get the Gua Sha tools?
Answer: The tools are available in traditional Chinese medicine shops and online.

Question: Why this article?
Answer: The Modern Medicine(MM) and the Traditional Chinese Medicine(TCM) are all for health of human being. They have different basis and different growing history. For both of them have their own boundedness, it is really difficult to get the conclusion about which one is better. The more better way is to apply both of them for our health. For some acute diseases, MM have more directly and effective way to treat, then we choose MM for treatment. For some chronic disease, the TCM my have better way to treat, then we choose TCM. To some diseases, for example the diabetes, it need we apply both of them for different purpose(I will explain it in other articles.). So I strongly suggest the combination of MM and TCM, not MM or TCM.

To the people in Western world, it maybe difficult to know the TCM well. I plan to write several articles to introduce TCM in a more simple and easy to understand way.

One thing need to mentioned here is that I am not a doctor, I'm a IT guy.I have the experience of been suffered by several kinds of chronic diseases, such as, frozen shoulder, chronic bronchitis, and diabetes. Yes, diabetes. I cured it by myself by combine MM and TCM. Those experiences made me known the value of open another eyes for my health. Now I am pleasure with being a impeller of the combination of MM and TCM around the world. I will do this through the Applications and the blog, maybe some other ways in the future.

This is the first article, I will write more in the no longer future. Your comments and feedback is really appreciated!