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Free, expert-reviewed guides to Traditional Chinese Medicine — reviewed by Jimmy Yu, Certified Acupuncturist. Learn the practical basics, then take the quick quiz to see how they apply to your own body constitution.
Body Types, Sleep & Mood
Reading your own signs — and what each body type actually asks for.
Why Am I Always Cold?
The TCM take on cold hands, cold feet, and never feeling warm.
Read →How to Clear Dampness
The TCM view on heaviness, bloating, and that waterlogged feeling.
Read →Always Tired After Sleeping?
When a full night's rest still leaves you exhausted — the TCM view.
Read →What Do My Nails Say?
Reading ridges, spots, half-moons and nail colour the TCM way.
Read →What Does My Tongue Say?
Reading coating, colour, teeth marks and shape the TCM way.
Read →Why Do I Sweat So Easily?
Daytime sweat, night sweats, sweaty palms — the TCM reading.
Read →Always Cold: Qi or Yang?
How to tell whether your cold hands and feet come from thin qi or from low inner warmth — and what each one asks for.
Read →When You Fit Two Types
Cold hands but mouth ulcers? Tired but wired? How to read a mixed constitution and what to work on first.
Read →Morning Fog and Heaviness
Why you wake up unrefreshed after eight hours — and the pattern Chinese medicine calls dampness.
Read →Anxious or Qi Stagnant?
Tight chest, constant sighing, symptoms that move around — the pattern behind stress held in the body.
Read →Waking at the Same Hour
Three to five in the morning belongs to the Lung in the body clock. What that means, and what it doesn’t.
Read →Seasons Across Hemispheres
How to translate seasonal Chinese medicine advice if you live south of the equator — or moved.
Read →Awake at Two Again
A racing mind and a tight jaw at two in the morning — the hour the body clock assigns to the Liver.
Read →Tired Body, Racing Head
Exhausted and wide awake at midnight — and the classical answer that starts at your feet.
Read →Worry and Your Digestion
When bloating follows your worries rather than your meals — the pairing the classics made explicit.
Read →After Long Travel
Still out of step a week after landing — and the order to put the day back together.
Read →Hot Shower, No Sleep
Why a scalding shower before bed leaves some people wide awake — and what temperature suits instead.
Read →Autumn Low Mood
Why the flatness returns with the shorter days — and the classical pairing of autumn, the Lung and grief.
Read →Acupoints & Meridian Self-Care
Where the points are, how to press them, and the ones worth knowing.
The Foot Point Pressed Wrong
Why grinding into the point between your first two toes can leave you more wound up than before.
Read →Three Points for Desk Tension
A five-minute sequence for the chest tightness that arrives every afternoon around three.
Read →When the Famous Point Backfires
Light-headed and flat after pressing the point below your knee? The technique, not the point, is usually the problem.
Read →The Classical Sweat Pair
Why one pair of points was used for both drenching sweat and no sweat at all — and how the direction changes.
Read →Tap the Side of Your Body
A five-minute morning routine along the outer thigh for the days you wake up heavy and slow.
Read →The Evening Foot Soak
The right temperature for your pattern, the right timing, and who should skip it entirely.
Read →Prepare Before Pollen
Why the tradition starts six weeks early — and the two tracks you must not mix up.
Read →Stiff Back From Sitting
Why stretching the sore spot does so little — and where the classics send you instead.
Read →The Jaw You Clench
Tight jaw, morning ache and grinding — and why the base of the skull matters more than the jaw.
Read →The Knot That Returns
Why deep tissue work relieves it for three days and then it is back in the same square inch.
Read →Heavy Legs by Evening
Shoes tighter at six than at nine — the three-minute route up the inside of the calf.
Read →Eating Well Outside China
Chinese food therapy using what your local supermarket already stocks.
Why the Same Diet Fails You
Why an eating plan that transformed your friend can leave you bloated, cold and flat — and what to look at instead.
Read →The Iced Coffee Question
Why four cold brews a day flatten some men and not others — and the swaps that cost you nothing.
Read →Seven Everyday Foods
Ordinary supermarket items the tradition has used for centuries — and who each one actually suits.
Read →Breakfasts That Hold You
Why a healthy breakfast can leave you flat by ten — and three warm swaps that don’t.
Read →Aged Tangerine Peel
The most used ingredient in Chinese home cooking, and the least known outside it.
Read →Beans Without the Bloating
Two kitchen additions that change how lentils and beans sit — used by every culture that lived on them.
Read →Gluten-Free, Still Bloated
When cutting gluten did not fix it — the three variables Chinese food thinking looks at instead.
Read →The Spring Reset Myth
Why a juice week leaves so many people colder and flatter — and what the classics said instead.
Read →The Four O’Clock Pull
Why the mid-afternoon craving arrives at the same hour — and why it is a loop rather than hunger.
Read →Women's Qi & Blood
Cycles, cold, and the patterns behind common monthly complaints.
Cold Hands, Warm Body
When the warmth is stuck rather than missing — and the one clue that tells you which you have.
Read →Gritty Eyes by Four
Why eye drops help for twenty minutes — and what the classics say is actually running low.
Read →The Fortnight Before
Why the difficult week responds to what you did a fortnight earlier — and what to do in that window.
Read →Dark Circles vs Puffiness
Two different things happening in the same square inch — and why one eye cream cannot address both.
Read →Sore for Four Days
When soreness lasts days and you look worse the more you train — the supply side of recovery.
Read →Cold Feet, No Sleep
Why you lie awake for an hour with warm shoulders and freezing feet — and the ten-minute answer.
Read →Jawline Breakouts
Why they cluster on the chin and jaw before a period — and the two different sources of heat behind them.
Read →When Creams Stop Working
Dry skin, dull complexion and flat energy after a demanding decade — what the classics said changes at thirty-five.
Read →Heat That Isn’t Heat
Warm palms and night heat that ice water does not touch — and the classical reason why.
Read →Reading Your Own Cycle
Colour, clots and the timing of the pain — three signals worth noticing each month.
Read →Where Three Channels Cross
A three-minute evening habit built on one point above the inner ankle — with one firm safety rule.
Read →Cold Rooms, Cold Breakfasts
Why you are the one in a cardigan in July — and what the iced breakfast has to do with it.
Read →Men's Energy & Stamina
Training, stress and the patterns men most often run into.
Late Autumn Burnout in Men
Why the same flat, heavy tiredness arrives every year around the same time — and what the classics said to do about it.
Read →Training Harder, Feeling Worse
When more sessions make you flatter, the low back is where the classics said to look first.
Read →Stress Sits Under Your Ribs
Tight ribs, bloating that tracks with your workload, and a short fuse by six — one pattern, not three.
Read →The Runner’s Weak Spot
Why the day after a cold run so often starts with sneezing — and the few inches of skin that decide it.
Read →Ice Baths After Forty
Why the same cold plunge sharpens one man and flattens another — and how to tell which you are.
Read →Jittery, Not Strong
When the double espresso before training makes your hands shake and your legs weak.
Read →Oily Front, Thin Crown
A greasy hairline and a thinning crown are two patterns, not one — and they need different plans.
Read →The Three O’Clock Crash
Why the afternoon fog follows your lunch rather than your workload — and the five-minute reset.
Read →Beer and Barbecue
Why the cold-drink-plus-rich-food combination hits the middle harder than either one alone.
Read →Long Hours Sitting
What eight hours in a seat does below the waist — and the three-minute habit that answers it.
Read →Practical Guides
TCM Self-Acupressure Guide
Where each point is and how to press it yourself — no needles.
Read →Chinese Herb → Western Substitutes
Can't find TCM ingredients abroad? Expert-verified swaps + what never to substitute.
Read →TCM Seasonal Eating (24 Solar Terms)
How the traditional seasonal calendar guides what to eat all year.
Read →The 28-Day TCM Plan Framework
The four weekly phases of a TCM conditioning cycle, explained.
Read →TCM for Specific Situations
TCM for Menopause
A gentle, food-and-lifestyle view of the change — hot flashes, sleep, and mood.
Read →TCM Food Therapy & Diabetes
Steady, low-sugar eating principles that may support wellbeing — not a treatment.
Read →TCM for Vegetarians
Plant-based as the foundation — warm-cooked eating and swaps for animal tonics.
Read →Find Your Constitution
29 gentle questions, about three minutes, and you have your TCM body type — so every guide above becomes personal.
Take the quick quiz →These guides offer general TCM educational perspectives, not medical advice or a diagnosis. For any health concern, please consult a licensed healthcare professional.