Welcome!

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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Shoulder Well (GB21)

• Local point for occipital headache, tight trapezius muscles and/or neck/shoulder pain.
• Phlegm related issues of the head and neck - embolic stroke, neck lumps, swollen lymph nodes, tumors.
• Phlegm related issues of the breast and chest - mastitis, breast abscess, asthma, dyspnea.
• Stongly influence Qi downward - useful for rebellious Qi, cough.
• Contraindicated in Pregnancy, useful for difficult labor, retained placenta.
• Gao Wu felt that balancing GB 21's strong descending action with ST 36's strong centering action is important.
• Tong Ren/Tam Healing System: Release the neck and shoulders and descend energy.

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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Akebia Caulis (Mu Tong)

• Promotes urination, drains heat from the heart through the small intestine - irritability with sores of the mouth or tongue, scanty urination, lin syndrome, edema.
• Promotes lactation, unblocks the blood vessels - insufficient lactation, less commonly for amenorrhea and bi-syndrome.

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TCM Formula of the Day

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Four Substances Pills With Safflower And Peach Pit (Tao Hong Si Wu Wan)

• A modified version of si wu tang with the inclusion of tao ren and hong hua which make it slightly more moving for the blood - for blood deficiency with blood stagnation with particular emphasis on the lower jiao - dysmenorrhea, irregular menstruation, heavy bleeding, other stasis symptoms such as fibroids, blocked fallopian tubes, endometriosis, etc. as well as related psychological issues such as depression.
• Can be used post-delivery for retained lochia.

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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Leapingfrog has schooling from Pacific College of Health and Science.

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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Midwest College of Oriental Medicine in Skokie
Some associated members: "Stacy DF", "gcap1371", "SinaSmithLAcMD", "anon43837".

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Acupuncture Organization of the Day

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New Jersey Acupuncture Society
Some associated members: "anon23169", "mardarpa".