Traditional Chinese Medicine herbs and formulas to treat pain

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Pain is an extensive topic, with a seemingly unlimited range of causes. However, one thing that acute, chronic, musculoskeletal, digestive, neurological, and other types of pains have in common in Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) is “Qi stagnation.” There is a quote in TCM, “If there is free flow, there is no pain; if there is no free flow, there is pain.” Qi is often loosely translated as “life force” or “energy,” and it forms the foundation for much of TCM’s interpretation of how we work…