An Overview of Traditional Chinese Medicine

Traditional Chinese Medicine is an ancient form of giving medical care and treating disease in the human body. I believe that massage today makes an attempt to blend Eastern philosophy medicine with Western medicine at a very elementary level. It is my opinion that the combination of these two worlds is the answer to prevention and treatment of the human body for the ultimate care and future of a healthy world.

Chinese Medicine uses a holistic methodology and not only treats body illness, but takes a preventative approach as well. TCM looks at the entire human body including spiritual aspects of the human as if this is all included within a small universe. Imagine the body as an entire universe. A practitioner of TCM views this entire universe and attempts to bring all interconnected systems into a “balance” or what might be referred as “homeostasis” in western medicine. Although treatment might be completely different from one person to the next having the same symptoms because each person is a unique universe.

Some methods included in Chinese Medicine include:

• Acupuncture
• Herbal Medicine
• Cupping
• Moxibustion
• Qigong
• Tui na

TCM methods have been used to treat many, many symptoms, disease and ailments including; addiction, allergies, migraines, fibromyalgia, back pain, head aches, menstrual cramps, back pain and much more…

Theories that govern Traditional Chinese Medicine involve the following: Each separate and then as a combined thought process..

• Meridians or Channels
• Five Elements
• Qi (energy)
• Three Jiaos
• Yin and Yang
• Zang Fu Theory

The Yin/Yang and Five Element Theories have several applications and an example of the tables used in this theory can be found below. Meridians/Channels - Zang Fu And Three Jiaos theory uses more specific applications.