Welcoming the Year of the Water Tiger with Jeffrey Yuen

Welcoming the Year of the Water Tiger with Jeffrey Yuen

Chinese medicine historically is part of an integrative system and utilizes all manner of modalities to improve people’s health and lives. Indeed, one’s health is intimately related to one’s physical, mental and spiritual environment. According to Chinese medicine and philosophy, the universe expresses itself cyclically. This applies not only to the planetary movements governing the years and seasons, but that our biorhythms and human lives are intimately related to the external cycles. Through careful observation, the ancient Chinese mapped out these rhythms using various models such as stem and branch theory and the various permutations of the 8 trigrams/9 stars. Every year on Chinese new year, the universal energy (as it relates to earth) changes. This influences how energy circulates through the structures of the earth, both inanimate and animate.

In this first of what is planned to be an…