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The Origin of Chinese "Health Care"

ImageCenturies ago, the Chinese began recognizing the ability of herbs and diet for supporting health and wellness of body, mind, and spirit. Over time, a gathering of knowledge began to take shape, eventually to become The Yellow Emperor's Classic of Internal Medicine which takes into consideration the importance of regarding the body as interactive systems, seeing the importance of harmony in supporting wellness and opposing disharmony and disease through keeping the systems in balance, be it human, ecological, or universal.

Today, Green Valley is expanding on that ancient knowledge by blending it and improving on it with the use of high technology, to bring you the highest quality products; Green Valley "Treasure systems".

Yellow Emperor's Classics of Internal Medicine

ImageThe original Chinese medical treatise called The Yellow Emperor's Classics of Internal Medicine was written over 2,000 years ago, and is based in the ideals of yin and yang. The principle of yin and yang has been used in China for centuries as a means of explaining the interactions in nature. Of course, and not unlike their counter-parts in the West, this knowledge has been contiunually improved upon even to today. The ancient Chinese observed that all things in nature occur as opposing forces. Through this realization they were able to see the influence of these opposing forces throughout the universe, life and death, day and night, all things exhibit this sense of duality and change.

In Chinese health care culture, the idea of treatment is to find a balance between yin and yang.

A hot disease should be treated by cold herbs: a cold disease should be treated by hot herbs...yin should be treated in a yang disease, yang should be treated in a yin disease. - The Yellow Emperor's Classics of Internal Medicine

If we suffer from a fever, an excess of yang, the treatment will be in a way to transform the yang into yin, whereby balancing out the excess of yang. All disharmonies can be traced to an imbalance of yin and yang.

 
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