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What is Tradition chinese medicine ? 

 
The Traditional Chinese Medicine is a system of diagnosis and healthcare approaches that has been used and to diagnose, treat and prevent illness, evolved over the last 3,000 years. 

The Chinese approach to understanding the human body is unique.  It is based on the holistic concept.  It has produced a highly sophisticated set of practices designed to cure illness and maintain health and well-being.

These practices include acupuncture, herbal remedies, moxabusion, mild electrical stimulation, laser Acupuncture, diet, and exercises; although they appear very different in approach, they all share the same underlying set of assumptions about the nature of the human body.    

Acupuncture is based on the recognition that human beings are unique bio-energetic systems, driven by a vital life force.  In the West, we call this force energy; Oriental medicine defines it as "Qi" (Chee).  Qi or energy flows along pathways in the body, much as streams and rivers flow across the surface of the Earth.  When the flow of Qi is obstructed by trauma, poor diet, stress, hereditary conditions, or emotional distress , pain or illness is the likly result.  Oriental medicine corrects this energy imbalance by eliminating the obstructions and restoring an even flow of Qi, which in turn stimulates the body's natural ability to heal itself.   

The body's pathway, through which Q flows, consis of networks of organs and the neuro-muscular systems.  All of these networks and systems have a corresponding set of points and channels.  Acupuncture points are located in small depressions in the skin called "men" or "gates" where the channels come closest to the surface.   With acupuncture, the body's gates are opened and closed to steer the flow of Qi to the areas that need to be strengthened and healed. 

• Qi moves Blood around the body.
• Qi holds the Blood in the blood vessels.
• Blood nourishes Qi. 

What is does:           

It has been determined that human beings are bioenergetics systems.  When the balance of this energy is disturbed, pain or illness results.  Acupuncture treatment corrects the energetic imbalance by encouraging the body's natural ability to heal itself, without the use of drugs or surgery.

Herbs and Oriental Medicines

Herbology

Herbology is traditionally one of the more important
modalities utilized in traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) Each herbal medicine prescription is a cooktail of many herbs tailored to the individual patient.  One batch of herbs is typically decocted twice over the course of one hour.  The practitioner usually designs a remedy using one or two main ingredients that target the illness.  Then the practitioner adds many other ingredients to adjust the formula to the patients's yin/yang conditons.   

Chinese herbology often incorporates ingredients from all parts of plants, the leaf, stem, flower, root, and also ingredients from animals and minerals.    

Oriental Medicines:

Modern laboratory techniques help transform formulas into pills, capsules, liniments, creams, granules, or tinctures to make them easier and more convenient to use.  Oriental herabology is considered safe and effective when prescribed by doctor of Oriental Medicine.   

Herbs and Oriental Medicines:

Ancient Oriental herbal formulass are as beneficial now as they were when first introduced more than 4,000 years ago.  Most formulas consist of two to eighteen different types of herbs, and treat a wide variety of symptoms while stimulating the body's natural healing process.  Scientific studies prescribing individualized complex herbal formulas have demonstrated excellent results with patients who fail to respond to conventional pharmaceutical treatments.

Oriental Medicine promotes the body's natural ability to heal itself, and is often effective where other therapies have failed.  

Chinese Patent medicine

Chinese patent medicine is a kind of traditional Chinese Medicine. They are  standardized herbal formulas.  Several herbs and other ingredients are dried and ground.  They are then mixed into a powder and formed into pills.  The binder is traditionally honey.  They are characteristically little round pills.

Chinese patent medicines are easy and convenient.  They are not easy to customize on a patient-by patient basis, however.  they are best used when a patient's condition is not severe and the medicine can be taken as a long-term treatment.

These medicines are not "patented" in the traditional sense of the word.  No one has exclusive rights to the formula. Instead, "patent" refers to the standardization of the formula.  All Chinese patent medicines of the same name will have the same proportions of ingredients, but it may contain different dosages.  

What are Chinese herbal formulas good for ?

Chinese herb formulas have been used to assist with the full range of human disease.  They are used in cases of:

Acute diseases:          

•   Flu                               
•   Common cold

Chronic diseases:         

• Allergies            
• Gynecological disorders Autoimmune diseases 
• Chronic viral diseases   
• Degenerative diseases due to aging.

Chinese herbalism is especially good for promoting the body's ability to heal and recover form illness.

How long does it take to see results with Chinese herbal formulas?

• In acute conditions, results may occur in a matter of a few minutes. 

• In chronic conditions, some results should be seen within two weeks.  Although chronic conditions may require taking Chinese heral formulas for a long time, signs that the herbs are working should be apparent to the patient and practitioner alike almost from the very  start.