General health tips
By Chad Ryan
Eat a substantial meal before noon. Eats soups in winter and salads in summer. When eating meat, accompany it with salad or vegetables, or at least some tomato sauce. Be active in youth, and maintain a regular exercise routine as you age. Develop routine, b…
Six Steps for Learning a New Language in Your Own Time
by Chad Ryan
A lot of people learnt a second language at school, but then discontinued it once direction ceased to be given. One great advantage of learning a new language over many other fields of study however is that you can do it…
A Translation of the Differential Diagnosis of 10 Conditions from Gōng Xìn's 1576CE Enduring Medical Observations
By Chad Ryan
The following are English translations of ten excerpts from the 1576 Míng dynasty work entitled Enduring Medical Observations (古今一鑑). The original editor of this…
Classification in language
by Chad Ryan
Classification, as the act of forming classes according to common relations, is a recurrent attribute of language syntax across different languages. Classification in language contributes to dimensions of quantity and sort, and may be both descript…
Chinese radicals
In the Chinese script there are many characters, however most of these characters are actually made of two or more other characters. These 部首, or radicals, have since the year 1615 been officially recognised as numbering 214 in total. Here is a list of these characters for refe…
Chinese Pīnyīn and Zhùyīn Equivalent Sounds
Chinese characters provide little indication towards how a Chinese word is pronounced in speech, as Chinese script is not a phonetic script. Two systems for transcribing Chinese Mandarin sounds on paper phonetically are pīnyīn and zhùyīn. Pīny…
Taiwanese medicines
By Chad Ryan
In 2014, Taiwan's population was around about exactly the same as Australia's1. In 2020, Australia has an estimated population of 25.5 million; Taiwan, an estimated population of 23.8 million2. Immigration aside, Taiwan's population growth rate is curbed du…
The Science of Acupuncture BBC Documentary (2013) with professor Kathy Sykes of Bristol University: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D53UwyJWa3w
The Barefoot Doctors of Rural China 赤脚医生合作医疗 (1975) directed by Diane Li of the United States of America, and filmed in Běijīng: https://www.youtube.co…
The ‘Yīn-yáng’ and ‘Five Movements’ Theories, and their Application in Chinese Medicine
By Chad Ryan
Yīn and Yáng
Yīn and yáng are the two parts of a summarisation of universal opposing aspects of phenomena. Yáng is the aspect to which notions such as above, outside, dayti…
Le Teorie di ‘Yīn-yáng’ e ‘Cinque Movimenti’, e le loro Applicazioni nella Medicina Cinese
di Chad Ryan
Yīn e Yáng
Yīn e yáng sono le due parte di un compendio degli aspetti opposti universali dei fenomeni. Yáng è l’aspetto di cui sono classificate le nozioni di sopra di, …
Decocting Chinese Herbs, Herb Doses, & Traditional Unit Conversion Rates
By Chad Ryan
Decocting Chinese Herbs
Boiling raw herbs into a decoction is a potent, easily digestible and aesthetically pleasing way to enjoy your herbal medicine. On the other hand, it takes time, and fuel; and it ta…
Ten Sino-Vegetables & their Therapeutic Outline
By Chad Ryan
The world contains a large number of plant life and edible plant life, although only a minority of that array in existence regularly finds its way into our diets. So for those considering adding some variety to their dishes, why not …
Acupuncture had shown positive effect, of level 1 evidence with the National Health and Medical Research Council standard, for chronic low back pain, osteoarthritis pain of the knee, chronic tension-type and chronic episodic headache, the prevention of migraine, chemotherapy induced nausea and vomit…
Characters of the Physique - by Chad Ryan
The names of acupuncture points hold significance that may be useful in informing point selection when providing a treatment. So what are the characters which have so come to identify the landmarks of the physique on which they lie, and the powers in whi…
The Tibetan System of Medicine
By Chad Ryan
Tibetan medicine, “whilst for sheer scope and breadth, … globally does not really compete with Chinese medicine” (Clark, 2017), it has persisted and found its “niche” (Clark, 2017) since surviving the Chinese Cultural Revolution in 1968. Today there …
In traditional Chinese medicine, the life energy, qì, is present in all the internal organs, as it allows them to function. It also flows with a circadian rhythm that allows it to become relatively abundant in one of any of the 12 organs distinguished by Chinese medicine physiology at any given time…
The Eight Pieces of Brocade is a series of qì gōng exercises designed to regulate the internal organs and can be used as a form of self-therapy for good health:
澳洲中醫和台灣中醫的異同以及澳洲中醫的常見疾病
任賢達
順稿: 柯馨婷, 林婉容, 吳柏毅
2017
中醫自十九世紀淘金熱潮時開始在澳洲生根，1887年的維多利亞金礦區，大部分的中國人來自廣東和福建，其中約有五十位中醫內科醫師(1)，在墨爾本的小唐人街也能買到中醫藥(2)；在1911年的澳洲甚至有貼著英文招牌紙的中醫藥物可以買。到了20世紀70年代初期，澳洲跟中國建立正式外交關係，中醫在澳洲逐漸蔚為潮流(1)…
Earlier in this year of 2017, I traveled north to the region of the world in which Chinese medicine originated and is widely practiced in today. Three of my gracious fellow students at SSNT provided me the leads to the three hospitals which I visited, those being È-Dà Hospital 義大醫院 in Kāohsiúng of S…
