About
What this site is
An educational reference to Chinese medicine, organized by pattern and by season, with every claim traceable to a classical text.
What it is not
It is not a clinic, and it does not diagnose anyone. It is not a supplement store, and nothing here is sold on commission — no affiliate links, no sponsored brands, no paid placements. If anything is ever sold here it will be our own written material, marked as ours on the page itself. It is not a museum of Chinese culture either: the Five Elements and the seasonal cycles appear because practitioners use them, not because they are beautiful.
Why it exists
Search for any Chinese medicine pattern in English and you will find a lot of writing that is confident, fluent, and unattributed. Terms are translated three different ways across three pages. A quotation appears with the name of a book and nothing else, so there is no way to check whether it says what it is claimed to say. Some of it is written well. Very little of it can be verified.
This site answers that with a narrow promise: name the source, name the chapter, name the person who checked the reading. If a page cannot meet that, it does not go up. That is why there is one finished pattern page rather than a hundred thin ones.
Who writes it
Pages are written by the editorial team and reviewed for clinical accuracy. The reviewer's name, credentials, and the date of the last review appear in the byline of every clinical page. During the launch period that position is being filled; while it is open, pages carry the citation chain only, and are labelled as such. We would rather show an empty line than fill it with a logo.
You can read the rules we hold ourselves to in the editorial policy and the method in methodology.
Which Chinese medicine
The material follows the mainstream textbook tradition taught in Chinese universities — the zang-fu system, eight principles, pattern differentiation — and quotes from the four classics that tradition rests on, principally the Huangdi Neijing. Where a term has an official English form, we use the WHO International Standard Terminologies for Traditional Chinese Medicine. Where practitioners disagree, the page says so instead of picking a winner silently.
Language
English only, for now. Chinese terms are given in characters and pinyin on first use, because English translations of Chinese medicine terms are conventions rather than equivalents — and the convention has changed more than once.
Contact
Corrections, sources we have missed, and requests for review: hello@wuxingwellness.com. Substantive corrections are noted on the page with the date.
Educational content only. Nothing here is medical advice, and no page on this site establishes a practitioner–patient relationship.