To many raised in the Western medical tradition, Chinese medicine can seem like a blend of poetic metaphors, vague energies, and mystical ideas. But that perception says more about the lens we’re looking through than the subject itself.
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In Chinese medicine and Taoist philosophy, the Heart is the Emperor—the sovereign who rules the kingdom of body and mind.
Today (May 6th) is Lìxià 立夏, also known as ‘the beginning of summer‘. Lìxià is the seventh solar term. It occurs annually on May 6th and signifies the beginning of summer.