CHINESE MEDICINE
Chinese medicine has been around for over 3000 years and is one of the oldest medical systems in recorded history. It's also one of the most successful, having helped countless Chinese people to live healthy lives. And now acupuncture has been accepted across the world, and even recommended by the World Health Organization (WHO) for many health problems since 1979.
Acupuncture is safe and gentle to the body, and it is uniquely suited to treat all kinds of problems, from broken bones to diabetes. If you're feeling run down or need an energy boost, Chinese medicine has a treatment for you!
QI BALANCING
Chinese medicine manages diabetes by balancing the Qi (the energy flow), leading to a drop in the blood sugar levels in most people. It also manage late-stage diabetes by boosting the patient's overall health, leading to a reduction of insulin. Remember, late-stage diabetes patients lose weight while early-stage individuals gain weight.
Chinese medicine is one of the most ancient medical systems in the world. And it's still going strong and developing tremendously with all the research and big data which was impossible back in the days.
In Chinese medicine, doctors believe that many illnesses are caused by weakness and energy blockage due to different reasons, such as tension in the body. They use herbs, acupuncture, moxibustion (a technique that uses burning herbs to heat up certain points on the body), and other treatments to help patients strengthen their bodies and unblock the energy flow, so that they can heal themselves. Chinese medicine also works with your body's natural processes to boost metabolism and help you recover faster. These treatments were written about in thousands of books which are still around today—even some dating back as far as 5000 BC!
THE CONCEPT OF 'WEAKNESS'
Chinese medicine has been used by emperors throughout Chinese history because it was believed to give them strength and power. It was also used to help them perform sexually—after all, if you're a powerful ruler with hundreds of concubines, you need to be able to get it up!
There is a Chinese medicine concept called "weakness" (虚), which refers to the weakening or imbalance of body functions, regardless of cause. Such a condition will cause different symptoms, depending on your weakness. For example: if your heart is weak, you might feel tired during physical activity. If your liver is weak, you might feel anxiety or have trouble sleeping. And if your kidneys are weak, you might have poor sexual functioning and feel the need to urinate frequently.
Western medicine does not recognize the concept of "weakness," but many common symptoms—which may not be detectable by lab tests because there is nothing broken structurally in your body —can nonetheless indicate that you are less functional than before. It is like someone who is poor but not broke; a car that has been driven for ten years, but lacks power and breaks down often. This metaphor applies to numerous issues of aging health-related problems.
The weakness is a description for the degree of dysfunction most chronic diseases develop slowly over time—until they are “broken” by lifestyle, which MDs call "disease".
But most diseases, including cancer and heart malfunction, do not develop overnight. They take time to mature—the way a car engine wears out before it quits working altogether.
Chinese medicine diagnoses disease in a unique way, using pulse reading, tongue diagnosis and other symptoms to determine the extent of the illness. Weakness is also accounted for when describing a person's health status.
Western medicine is limited to black-and-white diagnoses (sick or not sick), while Chinese medicine embraces a more holistic approach.
DIFFERENCE BETWEEN TRADITIONAL AND MODERN MEDICINE
Chinese medicine differs from Western medicine because it focuses on managing the root cause instead of just focussing on the symptoms like other forms of medicine that lead to further complications later. Chinese medicine treats each person as an individual.
Although Chinese medicine is often perceived as an "alternative" medicine, it is actually based on Western science, particularly anatomy and physiology. The difference is that while Western science focuses on the body's organs, tissues, and cells as the basis for diagnosis and treatment, Chinese medicine focuses on restoring energy flow through the body's organs and tissues.
The difference is that while Western science focuses on the body's organs, tissues, and cells as the basis for diagnosis and treatment, Chinese medicine focuses on restoring energy flow through the body's organs. You can feel it too as most of our patients have reported better energy, sleep and bowel movements within three to five visits.
In fact, Chinese medicine is so successful that it's one of the most commonly practiced forms of medicine today—and it's even recognized by the World Health Organization (WHO). In China alone, over 80% of people use traditional Chinese medicine as their primary form of care; in America? Only 2%.
Three Components of Health
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