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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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Long Strong (GV1)

• Main point for hemorrhoids from excess or deficiency, anal prolapse, analfissure; otherr hemorrhoid points: UB 25, UB 30, UB 32, UB 35, UB 57, Erbai.
• Diarrhea with or without blood in the stools, constipation.
• Important point for genitourinary disorders, for the five types of painful urinary disorder (Five Lin), urinary retention, sexual exhaustion, impotence, seminal emission.
• Main point for disorders of the coccyx. Injuries to the coccyx will generally cause the tip of the coccyx to point more ventrally, to deviate to one side, or both, affecting the energetics of the spine and the whole body.
• A strong descending action on spirit disorders - epilepsy, manic depression.  

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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Broom Cyprus Fruit (Di Fu Zi)

• Clears damp heat, promotes urination - lin syndrome due to damp heat in the bladder.
• Expels dampness, stops itching - damp skin disorders, eczema, scabies, damp-heat in the external genitals.

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TCM Formula of the Day

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Dioscorea Formula To Separate The Clear (Bi Xie Fen Qing Yin Wan)

• Generally for painful urination issues (gao lin) that arises from kidney yang deficiency.
• With related kidney yang deficiency pattern - chronic urinary tract infections, leukorrhea, vaginal thrush.
• Chronic prostatitis, particularly with white and cloudy urine.

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.

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Sustaining Practitioner of the Day

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Ala Adamia.

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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Northwestern Health Sciences University in Bloomington
Some associated members: "DebVan", "ljohnson", "drlivewell", "Nidgma".

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Acupuncture Organization of the Day

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Nevada Oriental Medicine Association