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July 23, 2025
Listen in now as our guest, Nina Cheng, shares her wisdom on Chinese Medicine for the Mind: A Science-Backed Guide to Improving Mental Health with Traditional Chinese Medicine. Even though today’s world is a nightmare for our mental health, does modern medicine have the answer? For many patients, the answer is, unfortunately, “no,” but there may be another way. For two thousand years, traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) has been effectively treating anxiety, depression, insomnia, and other conditions using herbal medicine and other healing modalities. In her book, Nina Cheng, founder of The Eastern Philosophy Chinese medicine company, accompanied by a team of renowned practitioners and scholars of Chinese medicine, share practical, accessible remedies and protocols you can use to improve your mental and emotional well-being.
This book offers an introduction to TCM and its unique approach to mental health. Each chapter covers a common mental health condition—anxiety, depression, insomnia, ADHD, brain fog, and trauma— exploring how Chinese medicine has historically approached these conditions, describing common patterns associated with unique symptoms, and prescribing specific remedies you can access in your everyday life.
Born in China but raised in the U.S. and Europe, Nina felt there was an under-served population in the West that wanted to learn more about TCM, the oldest continually used system of medicine in the world for over 5,000 years. Chinese medicine practitioners have successfully employed all-natural formulas to treat countless human ailments, and although herbal medicine is used in many nations around the world, the practice in China is, by far, the most extensively documented and catalogued. This knowledge eventually led to Nina’s founding of The Eastern Philosophy, a traditional Chinese medicine online apothecary, now one of the largest accounts on social media in Asian medicine. She is currently studying the History of Medicine at Johns Hopkins Graduate School of Medicine. Nina’s mission is to foster a greater awareness of TCM in the West, substantiated with high-quality, evidence- and source-based research while staying authentic to the culture of the practice. Learn more at TheEasternPhilosophy.com.
