Hui Zhang

• PhD med.
• Lecturer at Heyttu Clinic

Weiqi, defensive qi (qi defensivum, weiqi) is deployed throughout the external surfaces (extima, biao) and flows through the channels. This defensive qi (qi defensivum, weiqi) protects the body from external heteropathies (xie). It also regulates body temperature, sweating, circadian rhythm and sensory perceptions. In the system of six main channel...

The Six warps/channels (liu jing 六经) system i.e. greater Yang (taiyang), Yang brightness (yangming), lesser Yang (shaoyang), greater Yin (taiyin), lesser Yin (shaoyin), and reverting Yin (jueyin), is the core model of diagnosing and treating in the “Treatise on Cold Damage” (Shanghan lun 伤寒论). After the book was published, most of the followers onl...

Background: Neck pain-called Jing Bi or Neck Bi-syndrome in Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM)-is frequently treated with various TCM modalities. Pestle needle (Chu Zhen) is a unique noninvasive treatment method that originated from the Sichuan province in China. This therapy is a combination of acupuncture and massage. There is little research on...

Extraordinary Acupoints (EA) are defined as the acupoints that have a specific location and indication but are not included in the nomenclature system of the 14 channels (12 primary channels, Du and Ren). For instance, Yin Tang (EX-HN3) locates on the Du channel, but it is not included in the standard Du acupoints system; Tai Yang (EX-HN5) does not...

As coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) threatens human health globally, infectious disorders have become one of the most challenging problem for the medical community. Natural products (NP) have been a prolific source of antimicrobial agents with widely divergent structures and a range vast biological activities. A dataset comprising 618 articles,...

Heavy metal contamination in herbal medicines is a global threat to human beings especially at levels above known threshold concentrations. The concentrations of five heavy metals cadmium (Cd), lead (Pb), arsenic (As), mercury (Hg) and copper (Cu) were investigated using Inductively Coupled Plasma Optical Mass Spectrometry (ICP-MS) with 1773 sample...

In the fight against COVID-19 in China, traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) has played an important role in relieving symptoms, preventing deterioration, improving cure rate, reducing death rate, and promoting recovery. Since the third edition of the Diagnosis and Treatment Protocol for COVID-19 (simply referred to as the National Protocol), TCM has...

In the fight against Covid-19, Chinese Medicine had an important role to play in alleviating the symptoms, in hindering progression from the mild or common forms of the illness to the more severe form, in increasing the rate of recovery, in reducing mortality and in promoting convalescence. This article discusses the agents and mechanisms of the il...

Background: Heavy metal contamination in herbal medicines is a global threat to human beings especially at levels above known threshold concentrations. Methods: The concentrations of five heavy metals cadmium (Cd), lead (Pb), arsenic (As), mercury (Hg) and copper (Cu) were investigated using Inductively Coupled Plasma Optical Mass Spectrometry (ICP...

Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a complex autoimmune disease mediated by an immune response to central nervous system antigens. Conventional immunomodulatory therapies are limited to relieve many of the symptoms, such as weakness, pain and depression, but probably cause side effects. Acupuncture, the most popular approach of complementary and alternativ...

As coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic poses a substantial global public health threat, traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) was used in 91.50% of the COVID-19 cases in China, showing encouraging results in improving symptom management and reducing the deterioration, mortality, and recurrence rates. A total of 166 modified herbal formulae co...

Ba Mai Qigong refers to the combination of Ba Gua (Eight Trigrams), Ba Duan Jin (Eight Brocades) Qigong, and the eight extraordinary channels in Chinese Medicine. Ba Duan Jin is the most popular form of Qigong. However, the background, health benefits and advanced practice of the Qigong are hardly seen for Qigong practitioners. The book uses the do...

In the second part of this article, the author Zhang Hui presents the valuable experience gathered by two more leading acupuncture experts of modern times: Cheng Shennong and He Puren. The author’s intention is to draw readers’ attention to new approaches and to give them practical possibilities which will enhance their clinical competence.Cheng Sh...

In this two-part article the author Zhang Hui presents the valuable experience gathered from four leading acupuncture experts of modern times with a view to showing readers new ways of thinking and to giving them practical possibilities which enrich their clinical competence. In this first part of the article, he describes the background and the th...

As defined in the Shang Hang Lun (Discussion on Cold Damage), pi (痞, glomus) refers to a condition characterized by distention or fullness, pain and/or other discomfort in the stomach and chest region. There are 11 different patterns of pi disease, many of which correspond to common digestive disorders involving dysregulation of Spleen and Stomach...

Antenatal post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD can leave offspring with life-long mental and behavioural disorders. This study investigated the epigenetic mechanism of the effects of Jin Kui Shen Qi Wan (JKSQW) in preventing antenatal PTSD. Thirty-six pregnant rats were randomized into Control, PTSD and JKSQW. Offspring characteristics were investi...

Music therapy has served as complementary and alternative medicine for various neurological disorders. Five Phases Music Therapy (FPMT) employs the theory of five phases and five music scales or tones (宫Gong (do), 商Shang (ri), 角Jue (mi), 徵Zhi (so) and 羽Yu (la)) to analyze and treat mind-body illness. In Chinese Medicine (CM), the five music scales...

Die Pingheng-Akupunktur (PHA, wörtlich: „ausgleichende oder Harmonie-herstellende Akupunktur“), auch als „balance acupuncture“ benannt, ist eine neue, schnell zu erlernende und erfolgreiche Akupunkturmethode, die Professor Wang Wenyuan in den 1980er Jahren entwickelt hat. Die Theorie der PHA basiert auf der chinesischen Leitbahntheorie, der zentral...

Maternal post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) increases the risk of adverse neurodevelopmental outcomes in the child. Epigenetic alternations may play an essential role in the negative effects of PTSD. This study was aimed to investigate the possible epigenetic alterations of maternal PTSD, which underpins the developmental and behavioral impact....

Secrets for Auxiliary Cultivation Life: The Essential Method of Using Herbal Medicine for the Differential Treatment of the Five Zang Organs (Fu Xing Jue Wu Zang Yong Yao Fa Yao) abbr. Fu Xing Jue is regarded as a secret script authored by the Taoist hermit Tao Hong Jing. Fu Xing Jue had been sealed in Dunhuang Library Cave (Cave 17) since 1006 A.D...

Emotional disorders and mental illnesses constitute a significant part of diseases. In Chinese medicine, emotional disorders and mental illnesses are classified as emotion-will ( Qing Zhi ) disorders. Emotion-will, i.e . seven emotions ( Qi Qing : happiness, anger, anxiety, pensiveness, sorrow, fear, and fright) and five wills ( Wu Zhi : happiness,...

Prenatal environmental enrichment (EE) has been proven to positively affect but prenatal stress negatively influence the physiological and psychological processes in animals, whose trans-generational genetic mechanism remains unclearly defined. We aimed to investigate and find out key genes underlying the positive-negative effects derived from pren...

We aimed to investigate the mechanism of shaking as a prenatal stressor impacting the development of the offspring and Chinese medicines correcting the alterations. Pregnant rats were randomized into earthquake simulation group (ESG), herbal group (HG) which received herbal supplements in feed after shaking, and control group (CG). Findings reveale...

Introduction: In order to introduce the diabetology history in Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM), including nomenclature, understanding, treatment, prevention, etc., our research specifically focused on ancient medical literature used in the evaluation of diabetes in TCM or wasting-thirst (xiao-ke). Methodology: The history of wasting-thirst was c...

Systems biology is a general trend of contemporary scientific development. When coupling the classical traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) Cold Syndrome and methodology of systems biology, we conformed to the genome, transcriptome, proteome, and metabolome that are supposed to run through the overall macro behavior, and explored the macro and micro...

Earthquakes and other catastrophic events frequently occurring worldwide can be considered as outliers and cause a growing and urgent need to improve our understanding of the negative effects imposed by such disasters. Earthquakes can intensively impact the birth outcomes upon psychological and morphological development of the unborn children, albe...

Objective: the study is aimed to introduce the developing history of gynecology and gynecological nursing in traditional Chinese medicine (TCM). Study Design: the development of gynecology and gynecological nurs-ing consists of six periods in Chinese history. They are: 1) budding stage represented by the inscriptions of Nü (female) on oracle bones;...