Video: The Different Types of Chinese Medicine

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Learn the different kinds of Chinese medicine in this free alternative medicine video.

Video Transcript

This is Eileen Dey on behalf of Expert Village and in this segment we will give an introduction and overview to Chinese medicine. This medicine has been around for over 5,000 years. Before recorded history, between 100 BC and 200 AD The Yellow Emperor's Classic was written down so there was a huge amount of time when medicine was being practiced upon in the China continent and its fundamental principles all came back to the philosophies that were also moving across. You had observation as the key point. It was sacrilegious to dissect the human body so the systems of acupuncture, acupressure, as well as the use of herbs all came about through trial and error and they all came about through the constellations of the stars and the idea reflected of the micro and the macro so that points were developed for the purpose of releasing this natural flow of Chi. In this next segment we will talk about the six external causes of illness.

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The Different Types of Chinese Medicine

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