The Concept of Blood in Chinese Medicine

Blood CellsWhile the concept of Qi often dominates our attention in Chinese Medicine, the Blood is at least equally important to us. We know that increasing good Blood circulation can increase the effect we want to achieve in local areas.

The Blood houses the Spirit in Chinese medicine and the Spirit provides the capacity for memory. On a spiritual level this includes the memory of who we really are and what we want to become. Memory can be important in the sense of maintaining change after a treatment.

Moving the Blood can help our treatments last longer because the client is able to register change on a deeper level and their physical form stores that memory for them. This is because we are increasing the circulation of Blood as it moves through the fascia and this has a strong effect on the musculature and nerves.

Excerpted from an article by Cindy Banker, AOBTA