What Is Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) ?
Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) has a recorded dating back over 2000 years. The classics of internal Medicine or (Huang Di Nei Jing) is the oldest medical book in China, and contains the frame work upon which TCM is based.
TCM has formed a unique system to diagnose and cure illness.
TCM approach is fundamentally different from that of Western Medicine. TCM is based on a belief in Yin and Yang- defined as opposing energies, such as earth and heaven, happiness and sadness. When Yin and Yang in the body.
The goal of TCM is to guide the body back into balance. TCM is holistic; it treats the whole person (mind,body,spirit). not just the illness!
The balance has the relationship with Qi, which is the life force or vital energy. Qi is the animating force that serves to warm us, protect us From external pathogenic factors, promote the functions of the body and hold our organs and tissues in place.
In human body Qi flows through Meridians, or energy pathways.