Category: T

When seen in the name of a Chinese herbal formula, this word usually means that the formula is prepared as a water decoction. For example: Gui Pi Tang or Ma Huang Tang.  

Usually translated as “Great Yin,” this is the fourth of the Six Channels. In this stage, the Spleen Yang has been damaged, causing deficiency cold. This manifests as abdominal fullness, vomiting, diarrhea, poor appetite, and a sensation of coldness. The next channel is Shao Yin.  

Usually translated as “Great Yang,” this is the first of the Six Channels. This is the initial stage, where febrile disease is caused by an invasion of the exterior parts of the body by cold pathogens. This usually manifests as chills and fever, a stiff neck, headache, and possibly sweating. The next channel is Yang…

The subtle essence related to radiance and glow. It makes you intelligent and courageous. The pure essence of the fire element, the superfine essence of pitta dosha, which governs the transformation of matter into energy and of food, water, and air into consciousness. The essence of the fire element. The result of the perfect digestion…

The universal quality representing inertia, inactivity, and lethargy. Tamasic foods include processed and frozen meals, refined sugar and carbs, meat, alcohol, onions, and garlic. One of the three gunas of Prakruti or Nature,- its characteristics are darkness, inertia, and ignorance, it is responsible for sleep, drowsiness, dullness, unconsciousness. The quality of nature that reflects dullness,…

Water pressure within a cell, which makes living plant tissue rigid. Normal tension in a cell that results in normal strength and tension of the skin. The condition of being swollen or congested.  

A plant’s loss of water, mainly through the stomata of leaves. The giving off of water through the leaves of plants. The passage of water or a vapor through a membrane. The release of liquid or gas through the skin, and the substance that is expelled in this way.  

A copper containing enzyme found in animals and plants that catalyses the oxidation of phenols (such as tyrosine) and the production of melanin and other pigments from tyrosine by oxidation. An oxidising enzyme, occurring in plant and animal tissues, that catalyses the aerobic oxidation of tyrosine into melanin and other pigments. An enzyme that acts…

Increased resonance of one’s own voice, breath sounds, arterial murmurs, etc., noted especially in disease of the middle ear.