Radiant Health
The art of radiant health
Chinese tonic herbalism is fundamentally a proactive approach to achieving and maintaining radiant health. Chinese tonic herbalism is not medicinal—it is a "path" to achieving health, vitality, happiness, longevity, and wisdom—qualities of life that the Chinese call "radiant health," traditionally defined as "health beyond danger."
A human being is a whole. A wise person never sees a human being in parts. Instead, they perceive the human body as a whole; and the body as a unit with the mind, and under the endless influence of one's own attitude. The ability to achieve radiant health and great vital longevity depends primarily on an organism's capacity to resist illness from within. The Chinese art of radiant health is rooted in the fundamental principle of the unity of opposites (yin and yang), which manifests in the art of radiant health through the principle known as "helping the positive, eliminating the harmful."
Positive represents the regulatory, defensive, and adaptive functions of the organism; Harmful represents all disadvantageous factors that hinder the normal development of the organism or lead to illness.
Thus, the methods of achieving radiant health and longevity are helping the positive and eliminating the harmful; however, in general, helping the positive is primary.
