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Causes of Disease

Post a new topicby contentuser on Thu Oct 22, 2009 4:33 am

If the body is healthy (in harmony or balance), it is able to resist pathogens (agents that produce disease). Qi is responsible for keeping the body in balance. Disharmony or imbalance can be caused externally by weather changes or internally by excessive emotion.


External Causes

Because in Chinese medicine philosophy everything in the universe is interconnected, it follows that changes in the universe, such as weather, would impact humans. Changes in weather are characterized by six ex...Read the full article
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