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Featured Blogs
Top Traditional Chinese Medicine Blog
Thank you to Feedspot for ranking 4 Branches Chinese Medicine Center blog as one of the top 60 traditional Chinese medicine blogs on the web. Feedspot sorted through thousands of […]
How does Chinese Medicine Actually Work?
Are you wondering how herbs, qi gong, and meditation can support you? They each have the potential to help ease both physical discomfort (ie like pain with menstrual cycle, issues […]
Inner Radiance
Each and every one of us has an inner compass or inner guidance. I think of the voice of your inner guidance as your soul or higher self that is […]
The Passing of a Daoist Master
It is with my heart completely broken open that write that I Andres, my life partner and partner in 4 Branches Chinese Medicine Center, died at the end of June. […]
Transforming Emotions with Taoist Meditation
In this article I would like to share some thoughts on transforming emotional energy into useable energy drawing on meditations advanced by generations of Taoist sages, as well as the […]
Physical and Emotional Digestion
The stomach and spleen are, in certain schools of thought in Chinese medicine, considered the most important organs in the human body. It is not only physical digestion of food and drink that can indicate an imbalance in the spleen/stomach organ systems, but our emotional state can also provide important clues, whether they accompany physical problems with digestion..