Red Meridian's Heritage

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Our heritage begins around 2,000 years ago, when Chinese physicians already had a huge head start over the West in health research. In the specialized area of sports medicine, treatments and medicines developed mostly in tandem with martial arts.

This was a very natural relationship because of the physical linkage between martial arts and bodily injuries, and the immediacy of the need to treat those injuries. Muscle strains, ligament sprains, bruises, contusions and other forms of physical injuries were common on the battlefield and in the martial arts schools.

The treatments gradually evolved over centuries from an elementary system of first aid into a more sophisticated form of medicine, utilizing the medicinal properties of the natural world in different combinations to produce the formula behind the Red Meridian Sports Injury Patches.

A Natural Sports Clinic

Yap Chan Kor, Tabib YCK

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In 1985, Yap Chan Kor started a clinic to treat muscle, joint and sports injuries using the Chinese sports medicine he had learned from his father, a grandmaster in martial arts from northern China. Naming the clinic Tabib YCK, (tabib means clinic in Malay), he set up shop with nothing to go on except the faith he had in his own father's medicine. Over the years, the clinic's customer base grew into the thousands, without the help of advertisements or late-night infomercials on TV or websites. Instead, it grew purely from word-of-mouth recommendations. Today, the clinic's reputation is well-established as the first place to turn to for sports, muscle or joint injuries.

With Red Meridian, we are taking the next logical step and introducing this remedy, in the convenient form of our Sports Injury Patches, to a wider public.

A Last Word from Carl Sagan about Folk Medicine

“Quinine comes from an infusion of the bark of a particular tree from the Amazon rain forest. How did pre-modern people ever discover that a tea made from this tree, of all the plants in the forest, would relieve the symptoms of malaria? They must have tried every tree and every plant – roots, stems, bark, leaves – tried chewing on them, mashing them up, making an infusion. This constitutes a massive set of scientific experiments continuing over generations – experiments that moreover could not be duplicated today for reasons of medical ethics. Think of how many bark infusions from other trees must have been useless, or made the patient retch or even die. In such a case, the healer chalks these potential medicines off the list, and moves on to the next. The data of ethnopharmacology may not be systematically or even consciously acquired. By trial and error, though, and carefully remembering what worked, eventually they get there – using the molecular riches in the plant kingdom to accumulate a pharmacopoeia that works. Absolutely essential, life-saving information can be acquired from folk medicine and in no other way.”

- Carl Sagan, The Demon Haunted World, 1996

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