Asian/Oriental Medicine is a professional system of health care with specific systems of diagnosis and treatment.
These time proven methods are based on thousands of years of clinical experience. Asian/Oriental Medicine deals with energetic properties of your body which at their most abstract are called Yin and Yang.
Ideally Yin and Yang are in balance and you are in harmony and free of pain and disease. When Yin and Yang become out of balance there is disharmony. You experience disharmony as pain or disease.
Asian/Oriental Medicine strives to restore balance and harmony by using modalities like acupuncture, electroacupuncture, moxibustion, qigong, diet, and herbal therapy.
Act in accordance with seasonal, geographic, and personal factors. This is a statement of fact in traditional Chinese medicine.
Our system of traditional medicine is intimately connected to the ebb and flow of the energy in our universe. Far from being some mystical concept, one can see and feel this energy on a daily basis in the rising and setting of the sun and moon and in their changing trajectory across the sky throughout the year.
The months of summer(May 6 - August 7) correspond to the Fire phase, and the Heart and Small Intestine organs in the Asian Medicine system of correspondences. In this season all living creatures prosper.
Summer
"Heavenly qi moves down to meet the rising earth qi. As a result, living creatures bloom and bear fruit."Huang Di Nei Jing
To take stress off of your heart “do not burden yourself with depressing thoughts, do not get anxious about future events that may never happen, do not dwell on things that are well in the past.” Eat moderate amounts of cooling foods like cucumber and watermelon. Drink plenty of water. Try to avoid being over chilled with air-conditioning. Meditation, tai chi, qigong, and yoga are good choices for any season.