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This is Eileen Dey on behalf of Expert Village and in this segment we will give an introduction
and overview to Chinese medicine. This medicine has been around for over 5,000 years. Before
recorded history, between 100 BC and 200 AD The Yellow Emperor's Classic was written down
so there was a huge amount of time when medicine was being practiced upon in the China continent
and its fundamental principles all came back to the philosophies that were also moving
across. You had observation as the key point. It was sacrilegious to dissect the human body
so the systems of acupuncture, acupressure, as well as the use of herbs all came about
through trial and error and they all came about through the constellations of the stars
and the idea reflected of the micro and the macro so that points were developed for the
purpose of releasing this natural flow of Chi. In this next segment we will talk about
the six external causes of illness.