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Traditional Chinese Medicine - TCM podcastTraditional Chinese Medicine - TCM podcastTCM Secrets of LongevityFull script at: www.tcmpodcast.me Short script: Advances in nutrition, healthcare, and awareness of healthy living have led to increased life expectancy and lower mortality rates.  Currently, Hong Kong, Japan, and South Korea hold the highest life expectancies worldwide, significantly influenced by Chinese cultural practices, particularly in the realm of traditional medicine, which plays a crucial role in the region’s health and longevity. Cultural habits and dietary choices are deeply rooted in these societies. Studies have suggested that a diet low in protein and high in carbohydrates can promote longevity. Research fro...2025-02-0234 minTraditional Chinese Medicine - TCM podcastTraditional Chinese Medicine - TCM podcastRed Light Miracle TherapyFull episode at: https://tcmpodcast.me Summary: Red light therapy is clinically effective for a wide range of conditions including anti-aging, pain relief, cognitive enhancement, fat reduction, smoking cessation, wound healing, increasing bone density, increasing testosterone, reducing anxiety and depression, building muscle, healing acne, preventing hair loss & hair regrowth, among others. Red light therapy isn’t a cure for all diseases, but by optimizing cellular function, supporting the immune system and accelerating the healing process, There are probably no diseases or conditions that it cannot benefit.  Near-infrared light is another form of el...2024-10-1018 minTraditional Chinese Medicine - TCM podcastTraditional Chinese Medicine - TCM podcastThe Power of Light - Healing With ColorsAudio script at: https://tcmpodcast.me/ Religions teach us that light was God’s first creation. Even if you don’t believe it, we all learnt that light stimulates life. To have life on the Earth it is necessary to be exposed continuously to the life-giving rays of the Sun.  If we aren’t exposed to Sun, soon the Earth would be transformed into solid block of ice, where life will cease to exist. It is a Sun or better to say the solar energy which enables life to exist; grass to grow, stimula...2024-06-2048 minTraditional Chinese Medicine - TCM podcastTraditional Chinese Medicine - TCM podcastInterstitium in traditional Chinese medicineFull script at: www.tcmpodcast.me Intro: In traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) existence of facia and interstitium has been known for thousands of years. Chinese call it San Jiao (Chin. 三焦) and consider it an organ. In English is translated as “Triple Burner”. In TCM, Triple Burner is responsible for various functions including dividing the body cavity into different compartments, and properly distributing fluid throughout the body.  The Triple Burner is responsible for the maintenance of the ditches; and it controls all water in the body.  Triple Burner is the sum of systemic con...2024-05-3127 minTraditional Chinese Medicine - TCM podcastTraditional Chinese Medicine - TCM podcastSynchronisation of LifeFull script at: www.tcmpodcast.me Everything in Tao exists in a synchronistic relationship. Tao transmits the breath of life that powers the universe. It is considered that the Tao surrounds the universe and transmits different patterns of energy into the universe. The macrocosm communicates with the microcosm, and different patterns might affect and reorder seemingly unrelated events in the outer world. Imagine that destiny has a variety of patterns (chin. 理 li) which can create the  shapes and behaviours, alike genetic repository, or universe's DNA. When expressed in living matter, the universe’s DNA manifests as an organic DNA. Therefore implemen...2024-04-2631 minTraditional Chinese Medicine - TCM podcastTraditional Chinese Medicine - TCM podcastHealing with WaterScript: https://tcmpodcast.me/episode-28-healing-with-water/ As water is neutral in property, the actual temperature of the water is the deciding factor when classifying its energetic property. For example, warm water can warm internal organs and maintain or increase the Yang in your body, e.g., warm your stomach. In this way it increases functionality of internal organs and reduce some digestive diseases. Hot water can help you stay hydrated, and it may also help ease congestion, improve digestion, relieve stress, and help you feel warmer. Cold water in contrary may decrease the temperature of internal organs and slow blood circulation. Co...2023-11-0627 minTraditional Chinese Medicine - TCM podcastTraditional Chinese Medicine - TCM podcastThe Art of QigongScript: https://tcmpodcast.me/episode-27-the-art-of-qigong/ Chinese secret to preserve youth and health lies in an ancient knowledge inherited from generations ahead and brought to popularity in our time. Exercises aimed to restore and maintain health, slow down aging, and protect against injury, are known as qigong.  “Qi” (Chin.气) has numerous translations such as: the life force, the spirit breath, air, or oxygen, while“gong” (Chin.功) translates as: work, skill or accomplishments. We might translate qigong as life energy workout. In recent years many people become interested in qigong. Qigong is practiced by more than 80 million people in P.R. China, and by more than 7...2023-09-2616 minTraditional Chinese Medicine - TCM podcastTraditional Chinese Medicine - TCM podcastSolfeggio Healing FrequenciesScript: https://tcmpodcast.me/episode-26-solfeggio-healing-frequencies/ In many cultures, music therapy and sound waves have been believed to have the power to heal the body and the mind. In ancient India, Sanskrit chants are documented in the Vedas, ancient Hindu scriptures. In the Chinese medical tradition, sound therapy was used as a form of treatment for various ailments and was believed to stmulate healing in different body parts. Pythagoras, one of the faculties he was described as is, ‘the father of music’. He discovered musical intervals and taught that you could heal using sound and harm...2023-06-1838 minTraditional Chinese Medicine - TCM podcastTraditional Chinese Medicine - TCM podcastRen Shen - King of HerbsScript: https://tcmpodcast.me/episode-25-ren-shen-king-of-herbs/ Ginseng is often called "the King of Herbs," for its ability to improve physical energy, making the mind sharper and increasing life span. Ginseng potentially offers what we all strive forvitality, unlimited energy, intelligence and longevity, and unlike popular stimulants, it does not wreak havoc with the adrenal glands and the rest of the body. Instead, it counters stress, enhances immunity, improves the actions of the heart and lungs, regulates blood pressure and blood sugar, protects the liver, helps prevent hardening of the arteries and is an antioxidant... Panax...2023-05-211h 04Traditional Chinese Medicine - TCM podcastTraditional Chinese Medicine - TCM podcastMagic mushroom of immortalityScript: https://tcmpodcast.me/episode-24-magic-mushroom-of-immortality/ Lingzhi mushroom with its medical properties represents one of the most significant Chinese medical fungus with two thousand years recorded history as health enhancer, promoter of longevity, and detox of mind and spirit. Since the old times, Chinese monks believe that Ganoderma lucidum - lingzhi, help people to see spirits or become spirits themselves by receiving the magical energy of the immortals. The Latin lucidum, means “shiny” refers to the appearance of the fungus’ fruiting body. Lingzhi (Chin. 霊芝) - “spirit mushroom”, is one of the most famous medicinal mushrooms. In the past, lingzhi...2023-04-2424 minTraditional Chinese Medicine - TCM podcastTraditional Chinese Medicine - TCM podcastHealing with Mushrooms - ShiitakeScript: https://tcmpodcast.me/episode-23-healing-with-mushrooms-shiitake/ Fungi have played an important role in Chinese culture for perhaps 7,000 years. Over the millennia, common mushrooms such as the wood ear and jelly fungus have been important food items. Various simple fungi were also utilized to make fermented food products such as  wine, vinegar, soy sauce, and pickled vegetables. Fungi were utilized for their healing properties in China and popularized over centuries in South-East Asia as well.   The use of fungi such as hoelen, caterpillar fungus, and ergot in traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) was also recorded in the TCM li...2023-03-2327 minTraditional Chinese Medicine - TCM podcastTraditional Chinese Medicine - TCM podcastSchumann resonance healing wavesScript: https://tcmpodcast.me/episode-22-schumann-resonance-healing-waves/ The entire physical universe consists of pure energy and vibrations, which are mostly terra incognita for humans, therefore we can detect and use only a small fraction of it. Everything vibrates at a certain frequency widely known as electromagnetic energies – with a certain effects on the planet Earth and all living beings. An electromagnetic field is an area of space filled with magnetic and electric energy. Electromagnetic fields are everywhere. High-frequency electromagnetic radiation, like x-rays and gamma rays, is “ionizing” and might be harmful to people, while visibl...2023-02-2520 minTraditional Chinese Medicine - TCM podcastTraditional Chinese Medicine - TCM podcastThe Great Wall of ChinaScript: https://tcmpodcast.me/episode-21-the-great-wall-of-china/ The Great Wall stood as a wall of defense for many years, and It still stands today as a great wonder of the world. It is a man-made wonder, spanning thousands of kilometers. Much of it has stood for hundreds of years, with some portions over 2000 years old. Thousands of years ago at the present territory of China existed a region of separate states, ruled by their own leaders, its own languages, cultures and currencies, permanently in war condition toward each other and neighboring areas. Four states...2022-12-2617 minTraditional Chinese Medicine - TCM podcastTraditional Chinese Medicine - TCM podcastBian Que - the legendary Chinese medicine doctorScript: https://tcmpodcast.me/episode-20-bian-que-the-legendary-chinese-medicine-doctor/ As a rule, in the Traditional Chinese Medicine, doctor always treats the whole person, soul and body. It is, of utmost importance harmonization of internal balances of a body’s energy and personality traits, person’s eating habits, and what experiences gets during daily life. In old China it is believed that medical ethics are directly related to supernatural capabilities such as clairvoyance. TCM doctor who obtained supernatural capabilities, will definitely lose abilities in case if his moral and ethics decline or got compromised. In ancient China, supe...2022-12-0911 minTraditional Chinese Medicine - TCM podcastTraditional Chinese Medicine - TCM podcastThe study of destinyScript: https://tcmpodcast.me/episode-19-the-study-of-destiny/ From ancient times people were puzzled by the meaning of life, our purpose and destiny. Therefore Chinese ancestors invested much time in studying, researching and understanding the meaning of life by observing the chronology of man's destiny. During centuries ancient Chinese gained knowledge about destiny and created destiny studies (Chin. ming xue 命学) using two assessment methods: BaZi 八子 and Purple star astrological numerology (Chin. zǐ wēi dǒu shù 紫微斗數). Today we are going to learn more about BaZi. The study of destiny (Ming Xue 命学) has the purpose to understand all aspects of human life in order t...2022-11-2513 minTraditional Chinese Medicine - TCM podcastTraditional Chinese Medicine - TCM podcastThe story of rice and noodles - The art of foodScript: episode-18-the-story-of-rice-and-noodles Rice and noodles have a great role in the Chinese diet. We can easily compare rice and noodles to potato and pasta in western cuisine. Pieces of meat and vegetables are served alongside the rice and noodles.  There are many types of rice, such as sweet rice, long grain rice, short grain rice, jasmine rice, brown rice, black rice or red yeast rice. We can prepare rice in different ways, e.g. steaming rice, rice soup, fried rice, or pot rice. Rice cultivation in China started between 8,000 years ago at Kuahuqiao in Zhejiang Province.  Ch...2022-11-1815 minTraditional Chinese Medicine - TCM podcastTraditional Chinese Medicine - TCM podcastWind in traditional Chinese medicineScript: https://tcmpodcast.me/episode-17-wind-in-traditional-chinese-medicine/ Traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) believes that man is a reflection upon the universe, like the existence of a microcosm within the macrocosm. The term ‘climate’ in TCM, refers to agents that cause diseases. The theory of Chinese medicine uses the names of the organs to illustrate related patterns of physical, emotional, or psychological problems. ‘Wind’ or Feng Xie (Chin. 风邪) is one of the most difficult terms to understand. Chinese medicine as a holistic medicine system considers the human body as a whole and attributes diseases as imbalances between the different elements. TCM are not...2022-11-1022 minTraditional Chinese Medicine - TCM podcastTraditional Chinese Medicine - TCM podcastThe ancient art of standing like a treeScript: https://tcmpodcast.me/episode-16-the-ancient-art-of-standing-like-a-tree/ Zhan Zhuang (Chin. 站桩) is considered to be the most powerful exercise of all the Taiji Quan (Chin. 太极拳) and qigong (Chin. 气功) postures, and is often used as a separate exercise to increase leg strength, concentration, deep breathing and qi flow. Zhan Zhuang is very basic form of exercise, but very powerful exercise to enhance energy, mental clarity, and internal strength. It’s an excellent standing meditation for improving your productivity and bringing more aliveness to everything you do. Zhan Zhuang means standing like a tree or standing like a post, where on...2022-09-2023 minTraditional Chinese Medicine - TCM podcastTraditional Chinese Medicine - TCM podcastHealing with alcoholsScript: https://tcmpodcast.me/episode-15-healing-with-alcohols/ High carbon dioxide levels cause acidosis and stimulate the respiratory center in the brain, triggering the newborn to take a breath. The first breath typically is taken within 10 seconds of birth, after mucus is aspirated from the infant's mouth and nose. In order to make the first breath after the umbilical cord has been cut, it is the most important level of CO2. If there’s too much carbon dioxide (CO2) in the baby’s bloodstream it can produce hypercapnia may upset acid-base balance and cause a rang...2022-09-0917 minTraditional Chinese Medicine - TCM podcastTraditional Chinese Medicine - TCM podcastDreams interpretations in traditional Chinese medicineScript: episode-14-dreams-interpretations-in-traditional-chinese-medicine A dream is one of three states that the soul experiences during its lifetime. The other two states are the waking state and the sleeping state. Since the old times, people regard dreams as mysterious and meaningful. Many people believe that the dream world—with its own metaphoric language, can help us fully understand our life in sanity and lead us to greater knowledge and self-realization. Dream interpretation has been practiced throughout all time very likely by all civilizations. Unconscious lies hidden beneath the conscious mind of every person. It is...2022-08-2519 minTraditional Chinese Medicine - TCM podcastTraditional Chinese Medicine - TCM podcastMedical QigongScript: https://tcmpodcast.me/episode-13-medical-qigong/ Imagine ability to control all aspects of your given life energy as you wish, using only the power of your mind. To use it in such way in order to restore and maintain health, slow down aging, or protect yourselves against injury. Such ability is simply explained as understanding and knowing transformational processes in nature. Chinese culture calls it Qigong 气功. It’s a rare and somehow mystique discipline known to few. Practicing Qigong activates development of abilities to sense and control life energy known as qi. “Qi” 气 has numerous translations...2022-08-1516 minTraditional Chinese Medicine - TCM podcastTraditional Chinese Medicine - TCM podcastSix Healing SoundsScript: https://tcmpodcast.me/episode-12-six-healing-sounds/ Music has one of the most prominent functions in Chinese culture for over 3000 years. Music has been used for all life and death situations. Confucius believed that music is the best way to teach people about social and moral ethics, such as showing appropriate social manners and being tolerant and respectful. Taoism believes that music promotes self-cultivation and self-realization, promoting people to achieve inner and outer balance. For over 2000 years, traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) has been using many non-traditional modalities of healing, such as music and sound therapy in...2022-08-0919 minTraditional Chinese Medicine - TCM podcastTraditional Chinese Medicine - TCM podcastAcupuncture anesthesia and Ping-Pong diplomacyScript: https://tcmpodcast.me/episode-11-acupuncture-anaesthesia-and-ping-pong-diplomacy/ The availability and accurate application of existing information and therapeutic procedures are certainly the most important reasons for achieving tolerable perioperative analgesia, which means that it is now almost completely possible to eliminate unnecessary pain. Insufficient pain relief after surgery is described as morally and ethically unacceptable. Anesthesiology is a scientific discipline, a branch of clinical medicine, that studies the procedures of inducing insensitivity. The term anesthesia (Greek an estos - without feeling) means reduced sensitivity of the whole or individual parts of the body and is achieved by...2022-07-3116 minTraditional Chinese Medicine - TCM podcastTraditional Chinese Medicine - TCM podcastThe alchemy of poisons in Chinese medicineScript: https://tcmpodcast.me/epidose-10-the-alchemy-of-poisons-in-chinese-medicine/ At first glance, medicine and poisons seem to belong to opposite sides. However, in China’s pharmacology, poisons are widely used as healing properties. At some point, it emerged the idea that the usage of strong poisons can contribute to enhancing life or even regaining immortality. Chinese medicine doctors patented medical techniques in order to apply the right amount of poison for medical purposes. Chinese medicine classified poisons according to their healing power but not toxicity, which was second of importance. A traditional saying in China express their fundamental vi...2022-07-2516 minTraditional Chinese Medicine - TCM podcastTraditional Chinese Medicine - TCM podcastFeng Shui - Origin and PracticeScript: https://tcmpodcast.me/episode-9-feng-shui-origin-and-practice/ The art of divination in China has a vast tradition which foundation traces goes to several millennia. Such art incorporates China’s political and social fabric. During history it had various purposes; when to take part in war or when to seek peace, when to plant and harvest, or to schedule important events such as weddings and funerals. Very unique to divination in China is a symbiosis of astrology and geomancy. Purpose of Chinese divination is to unearth mysterious events and to position and balance humans to be in ha...2022-07-1735 minTraditional Chinese Medicine - TCM podcastTraditional Chinese Medicine - TCM podcastYi Jing - The Book of ChangesScript: https://tcmpodcast.me/episode-8-yi-jing-the-book-of-changes/ Ancient culture of China has made great contributions to world culture. Book of Changes is one of the most precious contributions of Chinese culture, which has exerted a great influence on Chinese philosophy, literature, historical study, as well as natural and social sciences. The Book of Changes is the very basis of Chinese culture, the principal source of Chinese philosophy. social sciences and natural sciences. It has greatly influenced the history of Chinese civilization. Its importance lies not only in what is covered in the Book of Changes an...2022-07-1120 minTraditional Chinese Medicine - TCM podcastTraditional Chinese Medicine - TCM podcastTeacher's in ChinaScript: https://tcmpodcast.me/episode-07-goodbye-boring-hello-adventure/ In its very essence, Chinese culture is strongly connected to its root and historical events. Modern Chinese culture is strongly influenced by Confucian ideals. One of the very basic foundations of the Confucian tradition is a deep respect for teachers. China represents an ancient civilization of at least five thousand years. In ancient China, people treated etiquette as the most important part of the culture. The concept of hierarchy: monarch-subject relationship and father-son relationship are the core concept of the etiquette. Under the influence of the strict feudal hierarchy...2022-07-0324 minTraditional Chinese Medicine - TCM podcastTraditional Chinese Medicine - TCM podcastThe Art of Cupping TherapyScript: https://tcmpodcast.me/episode-06-rise-of-nomad-destinations/ The cupping therapy has been used in China for thousands of years. The cupping therapy in its primitive form using cattle horn was used primarily to withdraw pus and blood in the treatment of boils. Cupping was then used as an auxiliary method in traditional Chinese surgery, and in time developed into a special therapeutic method. The earliest records of cupping in ancient China was found written in Bo Shu 帛书 ancient book written on silk. The text were buried 186 BC in Ma wang dui 马王堆 tomb. Through several thousand years of accumul...2022-06-2623 minTraditional Chinese Medicine - TCM podcastTraditional Chinese Medicine - TCM podcastAnxiety and Depression in Chinese MedicineScript: https://tcmpodcast.me/episode-05-the-dark-side-of-being-an-expat/ Generalized anxiety disorder (GAD) accounts for 8% of primary-care visits in the United States and has a lifetime prevalence of 18%. At present, 13% of the elderly population and 10% of younger adults are being treated with antidepressant medications. Lifetime prevalence for major depressive disorder is 16.5%. Other common conditions include: post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), with a lifetime prevalence of 6.8%; panic disorder, with a lifetime prevalence of 4.7%; bipolar disorder, with a lifetime prevalence of 3.9%; and obsessive–compulsive disorder, with a lifetime prevalence of 1.6%. Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) represents complete medical practice originating from ancient China through th...2022-06-1934 minTraditional Chinese Medicine - TCM podcastTraditional Chinese Medicine - TCM podcastAnxiety in Evolutionary PsychologyScript: https://tcmpodcast.me/episode-04-the-digital-nomad-lifestyle-facts/ Anxiety is a mental illness that can impact an individuals daily life. It is the most common mental illness in the U.S, affecting 40 million adults in the United States age 18 and older, or 18% of the population. Approximately 8% of children and teenagers experience an anxiety disorder with most people developing symptoms before age 21. About 12% of people are affected by an anxiety disorder in a given year and between 5-30% are affected at some point in their life. Anxiety disorders occurs about twice as often in women than they do in men...2022-06-1127 minTraditional Chinese Medicine - TCM podcastTraditional Chinese Medicine - TCM podcastShamanism in Chinese MedicineScript: https://tcmpodcast.me/episode-03-dating-as-a-digital-nomad/ From the very beginning, the ancient China remained directly or closely sacrificial. It is unfortunate but ancient China was built upon sacrifice. Sacrificial elements were of utmost meaning in the ancient China. Very alike European cultures, ancient and medial China followed the evolution from blood sacrifice to non-blood, re-presented as it is believed “morally correct” sacrifice, and to the ethical systems, such as Taoism and Confucianism, that evolved from it. The status of individuals in ancient China was determined by the perceived degree of his or her association with the...2022-06-0521 minTraditional Chinese Medicine - TCM podcastTraditional Chinese Medicine - TCM podcastOrigin of Acupuncture and Moxibustion Script: https://tcmpodcast.me/episode-02-getting-rid-of-time-consuming-habits/ Most people, when they face Chinese Medicine at some point, are primarily interested in how TCM can benefit their health, which conditions it can treat and how it works. Few people would ever wonder about its origins - when, and more importantly, why the ancient Chinese began to treat diseases by puncturing the body with bare needles or use herbs to relieve sickness. So far only few researchers paid attention to these questions; most Chinese Medicine textbooks and acupuncture practicums mention origin of TCM as uniform theory without...2022-05-3129 minTraditional Chinese Medicine - TCM podcastTraditional Chinese Medicine - TCM podcastThe Tao of CreationScript: https://tcmpodcast.me/episode-01-its-time-to-reveal-some-secrets/ To learn the law of creation requires great knowledge, wisdom or even an enlightenment. Such knowledge is the gate to a higher level of consciousness. Taoism is an ancient knowledge and wisdom we can trace back 5000 years throughout Chinese history. The word "Tao" (Chin. 道) has many meanings such as; road, channel, path, or principle. We can understand that Tao is the force which keeps the universe balanced and ordered. Human’s goal is to become one with the Tao, to be synchronized with nature, and to achieve intuitive knowing of life thro...2022-05-2413 minTraditional Chinese Medicine - TCM podcastTraditional Chinese Medicine - TCM podcastTraditional Chinese Medicine - TCM podcast (Trailer)2022-05-2400 minNext Level WomanNext Level WomanHealthy Lifestyle towards Entrepreneurial Success with Dr. Erica ChungEpisode 16: Healthy Lifestyle towards Entrepreneurial Success In today’s competitive business world, it is hard to find a job that you are passionate about and equally happy in. That is one reason so many of us are entrepreneurs!  There are a lot of things you can do to make your work feel fulfilling and rewarding, but one of the most important things is having a healthy lifestyle. There are countless business cases that show that a healthy lifestyle can give you more energy, improve moods, and greater focus. If you are int...2021-11-1737 min