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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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Pass Gate (ST22)

• Abdominal pain, bloating, gurgling in the stomach/intestines (boborygmus).
• Diarrhea, constipation, poor appetite.
• Edema.
• Useful for bedwetting with HT 7 and UB 40 or LU 1 and HT 7 (deadman text).

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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Dried Ginger Root (Gan Jiang)

• Warms the middle and expels cold - warms spleen and stomach both in conditions of excess due to externally contacted cold, as well as cold from deficiency due to yang qi deficiency.
• Rescues devastated yang, expels interior cold - very weak pulse and cold limbs.
• Warms the lungs and transforms phlegm - lung cold with thin, watery or white sputum.
• Warms the channels, stops bleeding - hemorrhage of various types, especially for uterine bleeding (must be due to cold - chronic and pale in color, with cold limbs, soggy pulse).

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TCM Formula of the Day

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Aconite Regulate Middle Pills (Fu Zi Li Zhong Wan)

• Spleen yang deficiency resulting in coldness of the limbs and/or interior, borborygmus, and possible loose stools or diarrhea.
• Feeling full even with small amounts of food, bloating, epigastric/abdominal pain, possible decrease in appetite.
• Vomitting and nausea especially if it occurs shortly after eating.

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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South Baylo University in Los Angeles

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Acupuncture Organization of the Day

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Acupuncture Society of Massachusetts
Some associated members: "anon226671", "chuck".