Did you have a cough with shortness of breath and tightness in the chest with symptoms similar to cold, but often after recovery? It’s better for you to go to see a doctor and define the illness. If you are diagnosed with asthma, you must accept appropriate treatment.
Have you ever had sudden pain and stiffness in the joint of the foot or ankle, sometimes in the shoulder and wrist? Although you did not do excessive exercise the day before? You may google the symptoms, but there is no exact illness you can define because they correspond to various ill-nesses. Maybe this article can help you to solve the confusion.
Many people nowadays often ignore the mild symptoms of dizziness and headaches. When they go to the regular examination, doctors say they have hypertension because of bad habits and smoking. What other triggers can induce hypertension besides these reasons and how can it be pre-vented?
Migraine, a type of headaches, is a throbbing pain usually on just one side of the head. Before onset, most patients usually experience flashing lights, blurred vision, limb numbness and other auras. A few minutes up to an hour later, the headache affects one side of the head with symptoms of increasingly throbbing pain, nausea and vomiting.
Constipation is prevalent in various groups such as infants, old people, pregnant women and office workers who are sitting for a long time. And the symptoms of them are similar, but the causes differ from age, habit and other factors. Therefore, the treatment principles are determined by their actual situation.
Have you ever had discomfort or pain with tears in the eyelid that made your eyes look swollen and red? It could have been a stye, chalazion, or another eye disease. This article introduces the stye and its treatment that you can adopt at home.
Ulcerative colitis (UC) in children refers to nonspecific chronic inflammation of the inner lining of the colon (large intestine). The inflammation, caused by unknown factors, always begins in the left colon and gradually extends to the entire colon or even to the end of the ileum.
Menopause, also known as climacteric syndrome, is defined as the absence of menstrual periods for twelve consecutive months, giving rise to a series of physical and psychological changes.
Do you suddenly experience stiffness and muscle pain even though you did no exercise? These symptoms can also be accompanied with painful joints. In addition, these symptoms may not have disappeared after three months. If that is the case, you may be suffering from ‘fibromyalgia’.
Winter is the season with extreme cold and an abundance of Yang with a weakened Yin. Due to the cold temperature physiological functions in the human body as well as the appetite can be influenced. Therefore, it is necessary to adjust the diet adequately to maintain essential nutrients of the body. According to traditional Chinese medicine, the use of tonic in winter, when compared to medicines, has irreplaceable effects on improving nutritional status, immunological functions and illness recovery.
For most people, sleeping is the best part of a whole day, but people who are prone to insomnia have a different attitude. Actually, insomnia can be treated without medication. Try the following four tips before sleeping:
‘Healthy food supplements in winter’, a Chinese folk wisdom, refers to strengthening one's health with nourishing food in winter. People often follow a vegetarian diet instead of meat, such as beef, or fish, because vegetables can supply certain nutriments we need to nourish the body and prevent sickness in the cold winter.
Recent research indicates that a cup of coffee and a bowl of cereal with two spoons of cheese effectively stabilises blood sugar levels and reduces the risk of developing diabetes. The World Health Organisation (WHO) estimates that more than 200 million people worldwide suffer from diabetes, related to eating habits, obesity, lack of exercise and other factors.
On average, women over the age of 51 experience some menopausal symptoms like bad mood, tiredness, difficulty falling asleep, and irregular fever and sweat. In addition to Western medical treatment, the following tonic diets cooked with Chinese medicinal herbs are suitable for premenopausal and postmenopausal women.
Ulcerative colitis (UC), a type of chronic colitis disease, attacks the inner lining of the large intestine in the form of ulcers for an unknown reason. The main symptoms of this are abdominal pain and diarrhea accompanied by bloody stools, 2 to 4 times a day, in severe cases even up to 10 times. UC patients often suffer from malnutrition, thinness, and anaemia. Therefore, in addition to general therapy, they should rationally adjust nutrition to high-calorie, protein-rich, high-vitamin, low-fat, and low-fibre foods. The following section presents relevant tips for your information.
Angina is a type of clinical syndrome with the main symptom of chest pain or discomfort caused by poor blood supply to the coronary arteries. The treatment of angina involves not only medication from western medicine and TCM but also foods or dietary supplements. There are some nutritional rules that angina patients should follow.
For most women, dysmenorrhea (menstrual cramps) seems to be normal and bearable. Actually, this phenomenon is abnormal because it may mean that you have a potential illness that can severely damage your health. Therefore, it is necessary to accept timely treatment if you are attacked by dysmenorrhea. And you should pay attention to diet and lifestyle. The next part recommends some fruits to eat during menstruation.
Constipation, as a common illness, affects people’s health and normal life. From the records of traditional Chinese medicine, it can be seen that constipation can be divided into two types depending on the symptoms: ‘Shi Constipation’ and ‘Xu Constipation’. Based on the personal situation, the principle of treating constipation should take into account the cause or nature of the condition.
