16 (number) old days, weighing was done with a beam balance to make equal splits. It would be easier to split a heap of grains into sixteen equal parts through successive divisions than to split into ten parts. Chinese Taoists did finger computation on the trigrams and hexagrams by counting the finger tips and joints of the fingers with the tip of the thumb. Each hand can count up to 16 in such manner. The Chinese abacus uses two upper beads to represent the 5s and 5 lower beads to represent the 1s, the 7 beads can represent a hexadecimal digit from
Academy of Chinese Culture and Health Sciences 250-hour or 500-hour program that focuses on massage and acupressure techniques. Tui Na is a 2000-year-old external medicine therapy and is one of the three pillars of TCM. The term translates to "push and grasp" or "finger and thumb pressure". It is a type of medical massage used to treat injuries, joint and muscle problems, and internal disorders. The goal of the program is for students to become certified to practice Tui Na on patients. The purpose of the clinic at the Academy serves three purposes. The first is to provide traditional Chinese health care, the second is to serve