Chinese medicine has appeared to be unscientific as the basic theoretical framework is inconsistent with modern medicine. Indeed Chinese medicine has rather different viewpoints when it comes to look at how the human body organizes and repairs itself. Many misunderstandings about Chinese medicine would have been out of the basic incompatibility or lack of commonalities with the terminologies used in (western) chemistry, physiology, pathology, etc. Here, I am trying to explain some basic concepts in Chinese medicine and some clues for implementation in daily life.

Viewpoints

See further subpages below:

• Basic Principles

• Eating the right way

• Herbal tea: one plus one is one