Western medicine is now in agreement with Classical Chinese Medicine (CCM) and Herbalism traditions in believing that inflammation is the cause of most chronic illness, and probably much cancer as well. CCM calls it "stagnation" and the solution is always to GET MOVING. Herbalism may refer to it as "too much water element or water element out of balance. In any case, here is an interesting article about how we can use our minds to reduce inflammation. http://upliftconnect.com/control-inflammation and I hope you find it useful. As always, I look forward to learning your thoughts ...