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Cnidium Monnieri (蛇床子)

By mchern • Mar 31st, 2008 • Category: Herbs & Substances, Kidney, skin problems

Introduction:
Cnidium Monnieri is a sweet, yellow seed that is warm and acrid in nature. It is used for two things, both of which have to do with genitalia:

skin problems in the genital region for women - problems as vaginal discharge and vaginitis
erectile dysfunction problems for men

On Kidney Yang:
The way to think of it is as […]



Yin-yang Poison

By mchern • Mar 31st, 2008 • Category: jinkuiyaolue, skin problems

Introduction:
It sounds like a hideous name, but to me the outstanding characteristic of this pattern is maculae and no pus - think “SKIN PROBLEM.” And while it’s called Yin-yang poison, we can just think of this as pattern as “poison.” The yin-yang refers to the usual method of sub-categorizing. Note that both yin poison and […]



Behçet’s disease and 狐惑病

By mchern • Mar 30th, 2008 • Category: genitalia, jinkuiyaolue, skin problems

Named after Turkish dermatologist Hulusi Behçet who in 1936 published his findings in a medical journal, this illness is also described by Hippocrates in the 5th century. Interestingly, sometime between the first and second century, a chinese medicine great by the name of Zhang Zhongjing had already documented treatment for a disease called 狐惑病. The […]