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What Is The Yin Yang House?

At our core we are a Chinese Medicine informational website. We are also working towards building and supporting the larger Chinese Medicine community. In addition to freely sharing a broad array of foundational and modern Chinese Medicine theories, research and applications, we aim to connect Chinese Medicine practitioners with each other along with their respective schools and state associations.

What Can I Do Here?

Use our main menu or search tool and follow the links to explore Chinese Medicine from whatever angle you are coming from (generally interested, a student, or a practitioner). Much of the content is categorized by issues/symptoms or by Chinese Medicine diagnostic patterns.

Most Read Sections

The most read sections are our blog, public forum, and our theory sections, particularly the acupuncture points section.

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Point of the Day

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Man's Prognosis (ST9)

• In ancient times the ST Qi was assessed by palpating the pulse here and at ST 42.
• Regulation of Blood Pressure - lowering high blood pressure.
• Headache, dizziness.
• Sore throat, counterflow qi (vomiting), coughing, hiccups.
• Acute lumbar sprain, lower back pain.
• Window of the Sky Point - restores Qi flow between the body and the head - useful with headache, chest tightness, asthma.
• Tong Ren/Tam Healing System: Used to effect the common carotid artery. With acupuncture and tuina we often use LI 18 instead as it is safer, for Tong Ren and light tuina, however, it is fine to use. 
• Falls into the category of Window of the Sky points within the Tam Healing system.

Popular Theory Sections

Our comprehensive Chinese Medicine theory sections contain what is generally covered in the base training for many acupuncturists and herbalists. You will find information on points, formulas, treatment protocols, and more.

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TCM Herb of the Day

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Rhubarb (Da Huang)

• Drains heat and purges accumulations - high fever, profuse sweating, thirst, constipation, abdominal distention and pain, delirium, yellow tongue coating, full pulse which indicates intestinal heat excess or yang ming stage illness.
• Drains heat from the blood - blood in the stool from bleeding hemorrhoids or heat in the intestine; vomting blood or nosebleed accompanied by constipation; painful eyes or fire toxin sores due to heat in the blood level.
• Drains damp-heat via the stool - jaundice, dysentery, lin syndrome.
• Invigorates the blood and dispels blood stasis - amenorrhea, abdominal masses, fixed pain due to blood stasis (recent and long-term blood stasis).
• Clears heat and reduces fire toxicity - for burns, hot skin.

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TCM Formula of the Day

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Minor Blue Dragon Pills (Xiao Qing Long Wan)

• Cold/flu like symptoms such as aversion to cold, cough, clear watery phlegm -from exterior wind cold invasion.
• Wheezing, heavy sensation, edema due to interior water accumulation.

Exclusive For Practitioners

Sustaining Memberships help us to continue to offer and develop this service. A site by acupuncturists for acupuncturists with strong data privacy protections and functions that our community needs. We offer the ability to list your practice in our directory, share upcoming events, fully private forums (and our public ones) and the ability to share your knowledge via our blog with our global readership.

Acupuncture School / Association Administrators (US/Canada)

If you are an administrator/member of an acupuncture school or acupuncture association, please contact us to have your account added to the administration group for your associated organization (a free service). As an administrator you can keep your organizations listing up to date and post upcoming events - among other features.

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Acupuncture School of the Day

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AOMA Graduate School of Integrative Medicine in Austin
Some associated members: "anon96014", "OKAcudoc22".

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Acupuncture Organization of the Day

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Washington Acupuncture and Eastern Medicine Association
Some associated members: "BestAcupuncture", "rclere", "lisaeamp".