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Traditional Chinese Medicine.
Treatment
Traditional Chinese Medicine is part of the traditional medicine of China which includes herbal
medicine, exercise, massage and diet. It is based on a history, philosophy
and sociology very different from that of the West, and over the last
3000 years has developed a unique understanding of the workings of
the body.
Traditional Chinese Medicine stimulates invisible lines of energy
running beneath the surface of the skin. This affects a change in the
energy balance of the body and works to restore health. Moxibustion,
the stimulation of energy by the use of burning herbs, is often used
as a supplement. Both are powerful forms of medicine and can be used
for treating a very wide range of diseases.
Treating
the whole person
Western medicine and Chinese medicine approach disease in fundamentally different
ways. Western medicine looks for an external cause or agent of a specific disease
which it isolates and controls or destroys with drugs or surgery.
Chinese medicine takes into account not only the disease symptoms but also the
age, habits, physical and emotional traits and all other aspects of the individual,
and attempts to put together an overall picture of the patient in order to evaluate
any patterns of disharmony that have arisen. Health
is a state of total harmony between the physical, emotional and spiritual aspects
of the individual. Illness, on the other hand, is a disharmony that manifests
itself as certain symptoms. The symptoms on their own are often unimportant;
they are merely a part of the syndrome of harmony or disharmony which makes up
the whole person.
Traditional Chinese Medicine treatment stimulates the innate healing power of the body. By enhancing
the flow of blood and energy to all the systems in the body, it is able to invigorate
and revitalise the essential energy that sustains us throughout our lives. This
essential energy, or Qi, flows through the meridian system of the body
linking all parts and functions together so that they work as one unit.
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