Guan Yin's Medicine
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Why We dont prescribe pain killers in Chinese Medicine Because it doesnt really solve the problem of why we have pain in the first place. What we need to do is address the reason why we are experiencing pain. Once that problem has been solved, pain will cease of itself. Pain exists for a entirely useful reason-it is telling us something is wrong, and it lets us know that when it disappears naturally, that there is no longer anything wrong. Pain surely complicates an illness,... and needs a solution to not compound the pain of feeling pain into a snowballing crisis. But taking away pain only makes sense when in its absence the root cause of the pain can be addressed. This is called treating the branch and the root in Chinese Medicine, and can be likened to giving anaesthesia to someone who is undergoing surgery. If the root isnt addressed, dependence on temporary fixes becomes our only recourse to carrying on. This is like someone taking anaesthesia without having surgery, i.e. drug abuse. The whole problem is that we want to carry on, and not look at why we are hurting. We call them pain killers in the hope that they wont be pain avoiders, but unless we have examined the root/reason for our pain, killing pain is a dream that ends up giving it new life. See more

Late summer corresponds to the earth element in Chinese Medicine, and the organs representing earth are the stomach (yang) and spleen (yin). The state of the stomachs qi represents our ability to digest the information and experiences we consume, as well as food and drink. The English language has many phrases that reflect this truth, like "a difficult chew", "hard to swallow", how "something isnt sitting well", and so on, however, many people may not be conscious that this...Continue reading