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Why Oriental Medicine:
About Oriental Medicine or TCM
What is Oriental Medicine?
Oriental Medicine, the root of which is Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM), encompasses a variety of health care therapies. Acupuncture and Chinese Herbal Medicine are the two most popular forms in the United States. Other aspects include diet, nutrition, lifestyle counseling, martial arts, meditation, Tui Na (twee nah) massage, and Feng Shui (fung shway).
TCM has been successfully used to heal illness, improve mental and emotional states, and in general, improve the quality of life through increased capacity for pleasure, creativity, and work.
In TCM, each human being is seen as having a unique balance of body and mind, hot and cold, inner and outer, Earth and Heaven, as defined by the terms Yin (feminine receptive) and Yang (masculine expansive). Harmony of these opposites leads to health and good fortune, while disharmony leads to dysfunction and disease.
Each person is then seen as an individual reflection of their environment: a garden, in which the patient and the TCM practitioner work together to cultivate health.
How does TCM work?
It has been scientifically determined that human beings are unique bio-energetic systems. Oriental Medicine calls this bio-energetic force “Qi” (chee), and in the west it is often referred to simply as energy. This energy flows along pathways in the human body which are related to the organs, tendons, and muscles. When the balance of this energy is disturbed due to trauma, poor diet, medications, stress, hereditary conditions, environmental factors, or excessive emotional strain; pain and illness results.
Oriental Medicine focuses on correcting these imbalances, loosening obstructions, and strengthening the body’s ability to heal itself.
What does TCM treat?
The World Health Organization recognizes Oriental Medicine as viable treatments for many conditions. Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine may be appropriate adjuncts to the treatments provided by your regular health care provider. The goal of this practice is to complement traditional care.
We specialize in the following conditions: stress, anxiety, muscle and joint disorders, headaches, pain syndromes, traumatology, sports medicine.
A partial list of specific conditions that lend themselves to treatment by Acupuncture:
- Respiratory. Sinusitis, rhinitis, common cold, flu, bronchitis, bronchial asthma.
- Disorders of the mouth. Toothache, post-extraction pain, acute and chronic pharyngitis.
- Gastro-intenstinal disorders. Acute and chronic gastritis, gastric hyperacidity, pain relief from chronic duodenal ulcer, acute and chronic colitils, constipation, diarrhea, paralytic ileum.
- Neurological and musculoskeletal disorders. Headache and migraine, trigeminal neuralgia, facial palsy, paralysis following a stroke, peripheral neuropathies, Meniere’s disease, neurogenic bladder dysfunction, nocturnal enuresis, intercostals neuralgia, cervicobrachial syndrome, “frozen shoulder”, “tennis elbow”, sciatica, low back pain, osteoarthritis.
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