Immortalizing Emotions: A Chinese Medicine Perspective of Tattoos
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Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) developed over 5,000 years ago and through the many centuries to follow, the basic premise and theories associated with the medicine have never changed. That is because in its most basic form it is based on an observation of how the human body is merely a reflection of nature and the many properties that can and cannot be measured. Behind all of nature's physical beauty, there lies a power that can flourish and provide comfort or destroy and transform, that is expressed based on the ebb and flow of time and influenced by powers beyond the realm or wishes of the individual plant or animal. When defined 5,000 years ago, the simplest definition was to use the term "Qi". Which by definition of the characters used equal air and rice. A simple formula that hundreds of years later science would eventually discover as the key to the formation of energy both within and outside of the human body
