It is well known that practicing Taiji [1] has many health benefits, including lowering of blood pressure, increase in immunity to shingles, relief to osteoarthritis, lowering stress and pain reduction, improvement in the control of Type 2 diabetes, reducing probability of Alzheimer Disease, and general improvement to overall health [2]. Practicing Taiji also can help […]
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Walking Tips and Taiji
December 2013
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A friend of mine recently forwarded an article describing a couple of tips on how to reduce the risks of falling. This triggered me to provide some walking tips from Taiji that can reduce our risk of falling and increase our balance. Taiji is a good health exercise, and it is also a good martial […]
Lajing and Paida Therapy – Reviving Ancient Chinese Self-Healing Exercises
September 2013
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The best road to good health is to stay healthy. But if you get sick, then the traditional paradigm in both Western medicine and Classical Chinese Medicine (CCM), also called Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM), is to go see a doctor and have the doctor prescribe some medicine for you (and in the case of Western […]
Pulse Analysis in Traditional Chinese Medicine – A Layman’s Perspective
June 2013
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One of the differences between Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) and Western medicine is that TCM puts more emphasis on prevention of diseases and identifying early symptoms of abnormalities that if untreated will lead to illnesses. A major technique, and probably the most important technique, is pulse analysis, where a TCM doctor puts his/her fingers on […]
