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By Emma Suttie, D.Ac, AP Did you know that acupuncture, Chinese herbs, acupressure, exercises and nutritional therapy can help to naturally improve your vision? There are 2 organs that are largely responsible for the health of the eyes and vision in Chinese medicine, and they are the liver and the kidneys. The liver is said

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This article is presented in an effort to help practitioners avoid a common error: linking a symptom to a traditional diagnostic category without considering the totality of the available evidence. The discussion, which eventually focuses on the symptom of uterine bleeding, is presented because I have noted that many Western practitioners of Chinese medicine automatically assign cases of uterine bleeding to the diagnostic category of qi failing to keep the blood within the vessels. Even when a woman presents some signs of qi deficiency (e.g., failures in the transformation and transportation of food essence, or weakness and pallor), I believe one should not necessarily assign to this observation the interpretation that this deficiency is the immediate and principal cause of bleeding.