What’s ‘Traditional Chinese Medicine’?

Have you ever heard of ‘Traditional Chinese Medicine’ ‘Zhong Yi’ 中医? Do you know what it is about? How does it work?

Majority of the people thought that Chinese medicine is China’s medicine.

Lets us have a look at the meaning of the first character of ‘Zhong Yi’ 中医. Well, it does have the meaning, referring to ‘China’.

But, its true meaning is, at the middle, balanced, without bias and without favor. Thus, ‘Zhong Yi’ 中医, Chinese Medicine is a medicine that pursue and concern about balance, balanced medicine. 

To understand more about Chinese medicine, there are few several important concepts needed to get understand. 

I’ll talk about them in my next post.