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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.


Point of the Day

Upper Brightness (X-SHANGMING)
  • Disorders of the eyelids, pterygium.
  • Vision issues, optic nerve atrophy, glaucoma.

Blog Post of the Day

Tai Chi Found Helpful For Insomnia / Sleep Issues In Older Adults
by ChadD

Researchers from the School of Nursing and Midwifery within the Isfahan University of Medical Sciences in Iran recently conducted a study observing the effects of Tai Chi on the quality of sleep within a geriatric population. Knowing that insomnia and...

Recent Forum Post

Front Neck Voice Muscle <-> Rhomboid Scapula? (St 9 <-> Ub 45Ish)
by Boingster

Hey folks. This morning's qi gong had a long-awaited, seems to me, movement between what I think is ST 9 and UB 45, round thereabouts. I was experiencing a familiar strong 'yin' around ST 9, sat with it (stood, really),...

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.


TCM Herb of the Day

Reed Rhizome (Lu Gen)lu gen (reed rhizome)
  • Clears heat, generates fluids - heat patterns with high fever, irritability, thirst.
  • Clears lung heat - cough, thick yellow sputum.
  • Clears stomach heat - vomiting, belching.
  • Clears heat, diuretic - dark, scanty urine, xue lin, accompanied by thirst and irritability.
  • Encourages rashes to the surface - for febrile disease with rashes that are incompletely expressed.

TCM Formula of the Day

Decoction B (Yi Zi Wan)da huang (rhubarb)
  • Hemorrhoids and/or constipation from an accumulation of damp-heat and toxins in the lower jiao - possibly bleeding hemorrhoids, pain, rectal prolapse, anal itching.
  • With the right underlying factors may also be useful for vaginal bleeding with abdominal pain, possibly with dark clots.

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.


Sustaining Practitioner of the Day

2thePoint has schooling from Bastyr University.

Acupuncture Practice of the Day

Statera


Statera is my small acupuncture clinic in Tórshavn, the Faroe Islands. Here I treat full time. In addition to being a trained TCM acupuncturist, I am also a nurse and I use my nursing skills a lot in my clinic....


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.


Acupuncture School of the Day

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