Also deals with acupuncture, moxibustion, diet therapy, prevention, and health preservation. Outstanding treatment of deficiency diseases. The Medical Secrets of An Official Wang Tao 752 A.D 40 volumes, introduces 6,000 prescriptions. A master's compendium of prescriptions available before the Tang dynasty. Without circulation the body starves.
Chinese medicine is about energy.
We study where it comes from, where it goes, and how it flows. Your body is nourished by, cleansed by, and dependent on these flows. Our bodies are part of nature. Laws that govern nature govern us. Gravity, inertia, flow, all the forces that affect energy and matter affect us.