Who can benefit from treatment?
People who are experiencing pain, chronic fatigue, sleeping problems, depression, allergies, skin disorders, menstrual problems and many other conditions that do not have clear treatment or ready cures in Western medicine. Also, people who suffer from severe side effects resulting from conventional treatment may benefit from Traditional Chinese medicine.
What is treatment like?
First, the practitioner will collect as much information as possible regarding your health condition. This will include taking a detailed case history, having a close look at your tongue, taking your pulse, and other physical exams as necessary.
The information is to help the practitioner decide which therapeutic methods will bring the patient the most benefit. Methods include acupuncture, which is the (painless!) insertion of fine needles in specific points on the body, and herbal medicine, either in capsules, or brewed in a drink or tea form.
How does acupuncture work?
In TCM, your body is a network of interacting energies. An even distribution and smooth flow of these energies will maintain health, whereas any interruption, depletion or stagnation in these energies will lead to diseases. The principle of acupuncture is to aid these natural processes, helping the body to reorder the interaction of energies so as to let the body heal itself. Needles are inserted into defined focal points where the energies flow through. By specific manipulation of the needles, an acupuncturist can either stem the excess of or stimulate the deficiency of various energies.
How does herbal medicine work?
Chinese herbal medicine works in the same principle as acupuncture, by restoring the proper energy flow within the body. While acupuncture works by influencing the flow of body energies, herbal medicine works on a more material level. For example, in cases of severe energy depletion, a practitioner may choose to use herbal medicine to build up the patient's lost energy prior to using acupuncture.
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