Let’s discuss from the Tranditional Chinese medicine way. In Chinese medicine, we believe that our body has been build with channels, which can be imagined as the transport system in our body which all blood and essential pass thought and arrive the “target station”-organs. Qi is the power to push all of these. They are working 24 hours per day never stop to keep our health level. This is not the only thing they deal with.
All the pathogens which attacked our body will go through this system too. Pathogen usually has two kinds: from outside and produce inside. Form outside like the weather change, cold, flu...inside is mostly caused by unhealthy living style. When the pathogens come, our channels work to help detox, stop them, pull them out, and not let them affect our health, so at this stage we usually have no health issue at all, however your Chinese medicine doctor can tell you something has been wrong. Then when the pathogens getting more and more, longer time stay in our body, our channel has been very exhausted and our body getting weak or start to show some troubles : sleep issue, allergy issue, energy level changing, emotional changing, …that is the warning from our body and it is time to looking for help…
Unfortunately, we ignore these most of time or to find some over counter medicine to cover down the problem. The problem seems to disappear but in fact, it just stays in our body deeper. Over years, the channel has been block, the transport of blood essential has been blocked and getting weak then more health issues will show up…our health has been distorted and like my patient said “I am broke to pieces, nowhere is good.”(Continue…)