Traditional Chinese Medicine

Traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) is a type of alternative medicine based on the Daoist ancient medical system view of a universe. Everything is this system is interrelated.

Chinese medicine has developed for thousands of years of observation and practice. TCM is a valid and effective form of medicine. The Chinese have developed a one of its kind method of understanding the structure of the body's physiological processes and internal organs.

Traditional Chinese medicine is based on promotion and maintenance of health through diet and exercise. In Traditional Chinese Medicine all illnesses can be treated with acupuncture, herbs, and Qigong. Chinese medicine practitioners diagnose and treat all types of illnesses and diseases. Chinese medicine practitioners study for many years.

The concepts of Traditional Chinese Medicine are differs from Traditional Western medicine. A basic knowledge of these concepts is needed to understand how Chinese medicine practitioners diagnose and treat diseases. Many of the concepts can be difficult to understand because they are completely different from concepts of Western medicine.

Chinese medicine practitioners see the mind and body as an energetic system. The mind and body cannot be separated one from another or the vice versa. Organs are interconnected organ systems that work together to keep the body functioning properly. Chinese medicine practitioners do not treat disease. They treat the patient as a whole.

The base concept of Chinese medicine is yin and yang. Everything in Universe are either yin or yang. Also Chinese organized the world based on primal powers or elements: wood, fire, earth, metal, and water. All organs have different functions and depend on each other in order to function appropriately. Each Organ is related to Yin or Yang. Yang organs digest and transform. Yin organs store.

There are twelve meridians in the body. They run vertically throughout the surface of the body. Each Meridian is associated with a specific organ. Qi (energy) flows through the body by meridians.
A Chinese medicine practitioner understands these relationships and uses them to diagnose and treat illness.