Modern people generally have excess belly fat due to the ready availability of convenience foods and overeating. The benefit of transportation also leads to people walking and exercising less. Obesity is usually measured according to the body mass index (BMI): BMI = weight (kg) / height ² (m²). Those with BMI greater than 28, are…

Since the outbreak of the pandemic, the cumulative number of confirmed cases worldwide has exceeded 600 million. In August this year, a study published in The Lancet, an authoritative medical journal, pointed out that about one-eighth of the patients who have been infected with COVID-19 develop symptoms of the Long COVID. Taiwanese Traditional Chinese Medicine…

The accelerated pace of modern life, increased work demands, and even brain fog from COVID-19, is causing many people to experience insomnia, headaches, dizziness, mental discomfort, memory loss, and other forms of neurasthenia. In an interview with The Epoch Times, Lee Si-yi, director of a Chinese Medicine Clinic she founded in Taiwan, said these and…

Dr. Kuo Ta-Wei, Director of Fu Yuan Chinese Medicine Clinic, told us a story that made us rethink whether our white hair is here to stay. “In an integrated Chinese and Western therapy program during the acute treatment of stroke, there was a 75-year old woman who was paralyzed and motionless. We did the scalp…