Chinese Medicine
This millennia-old medical tradition works to bring balance to the body through acupuncture, massage, Eastern herbalism, diet; and lifestyle changes such as martial arts and meditation. This ancient health-care system is based on the idea that balancing active and passive forces within the body enhances Qi, or life force, and leads to healing. To accomplish this, practitioners of traditional Chinese medicine are attentive to changes in Qi, or the body's natural energy flow, which are said to precede biological changes. Practitioners seek to reverse energy imbalance and strengthen the body's natural healing faculties.
Chinese medicine is a comprehensive system of health care that has been evolving for over twenty-three centuries. It is one of the oldest and most popular forms of medical therapy in the world. It has been used for thousands of years to treat billions of people.
The brilliance of this system is in its theoretical foundation, that opposite and contradictory aspects (yin and yang) are inherently present in all phenomenon and that the motion of nature is the movement of something towards its opposite. Very simply, there is an emphasis on the body and minds constant experience of change and the interconnectedness of all aspects of an individual's internal landscape and the external environment; this is a medicine which acknowledges that nothing exists as a static state and in isolation.
Just as struggling against a river's flow merely wastes one's energy, so a life that is not in harmony with the movement of Nature will sap one's Qi. On the other hand, just as swimming with the river will magnify one's sense of personal power, so a life that harmonizes with Natural Qi will enhance one's personal experience of Qi.
Chinese medicine is designed to investigate fully a person's experience of pain, sleep, diet, menstrual cycle, living situation, work conditions, emotional life, exercise routine, medical history, spiritual practice in addition to palpation of the belly, taking of the pulse and looking at a person's tongue as part of a diagnostic picture. This myriad of information is correlated and interpreted into a pattern diagnosis, which is then formulated into a specific treatment strategy. As there are no two humans exactly alike, each treatment may vary even though they may present with the same diagnosis and similar symptoms.
The body is inseparable from the rest of nature. It automatically regulates its internal function to adopt to the regular changes that recur in the environment. Every part of the body, which includes the mind, is connected together. For example, if a patient has back pain, sore knees, and ringing in his ears, he might be advised to see an orthopedist, a neurologist and an ear doctor by his physician. A traditional Chinese doctor's diagnosis would be a malfunction of the Chinese organ-function known as the Kidney.
THERE ARE NATURAL LAWS THAT GOVERN THE UNIVERSE.
You are part of the universe and therefore exist according to and subject to those laws.
THE NATURAL ORDER OF THE UNIVERSE IS HARMONIUS AND ORGANIZED. If you live according to it's laws you will be harmonious.
THE UNIVERSE IS DYNAMIC; CHANGE IS A CONSTANT.
Lack of change is contrary to the universe and therefore causes illness.
ALL LIFE IS INTERCONNECTED
Always use a systems approach.
HUMANS ARE A PART OF THE UNIVERSE, NOT OUTSIDE OF IT. WE ARE INTIMATELY CONNECTED TO THE ENVIRONMENT AND THUS THE UNIVERSE.
Your health is affected by your environment.
Today, more than 2 Billion people in Asia, the former Soviet Union and Europe are served by Chinese Medicine and it is practiced in Allopathic hospitals in China as an adjunct to the allopathic treatment - that's 30% of the Earth's population.