Studying Chinese medicine has changed how I understand postpartum placenta encapsulation. After years of preparing placentas as a doula, TCM college has given me a deeper framework for Zi He Che, postpartum depletion, milk supply, mood, timing, pattern differentiation, and why placenta medicine may be powerful — but not universally appropriate.
If your brain naturally connects dots and sees patterns in everything, acupuncture might feel less like learning and more like remembering. A look at why this medicine is so satisfying for pattern-driven minds.
This isn’t a bedtime story. It’s the story behind the nights you can’t quite turn off. In Chinese medicine, insomnia isn’t random. It’s what happens when the Shen has nowhere to land and the body hasn’t found its way back to safety yet.