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About TCM --- Traditional Chinese Medicine


Zhong Yi

Yin Yang

Wu Xing

Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) has been used by Chinese for more than two thousands of years.

Since human being living between sky and earth, we have to follow the nature of sky and earth. Ancient Chinese by observing how the season, stars and the wind, water, fire, soil and mineral 5 basic elements affecting human being's life, they not only found FengShui, they also got the way of keeping our body healthy by adjusting our body. The Traditional Chinese Medicine explains the function of the body by the natural phenomenon in the nature, using the terms such as Fire, Cold, Wetness, Wind, Hot, Water, Dryness, etc. It also tries to maintain the health according to the phenomenon in the nature. This is the famous concept in Chinese medicine, as well as in its philosophy, called the “harmony of the nature and the human being.”

Basically speaking we use acupuncture/moxibustion and herbs, regarding acupuncture/moxibustion means using the meridian system. The meridian system is like the big and small rivers on earth, they consisted a big network covering the whole earth and keep the water balance, so we can use meridian channel to adjust our body. For herbs, there were ancient Chinese tasted all the plants including flower, roots, plants, mineral, etc. It serve Chinese people for thousands of years.

Traditional Chinese Medicine applies to the “simple first” . Therefore its therapy is simple and easy to apply. By this way, herbal therapy, acupuncture and TuiNa are more popularly used in clinic and much more advanced. . For this and other reasons, the Traditional Chinese Medicine is much advanced in the internal medicine practice, not on surgery technique in later century. In another words, it is already able to prevent many diseases coming into its later stage.


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