Beijing Acupuncture and Herbal Clinic

1180 Grimes Bridge Rd, Suite 300, Roswell, GA 30075
Tel: 770-518-6607

http://www.beijingacu.com

Traditional Chinese Medicine

      Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) has been practiced for over 5000 years in China. it is not surprising, therefore, between 65%-80% of the world's health care services are classified as traditional medicine. The philosophy behind TCM is holistic health care, from diagnosis to treatment to maintenance. The Yellow Emperor's Internal Classics, consisting of Plain Questions and Miraculous Pivots, has 18 volumes, each with 81 articles. Its basic theory of TCM can be summarized as follows.

    (1) A whole conception is stressed: The human body is an organic whole; health and diseases have certain relations to natural environment.

    (2) The theories of yin-yang and five elements are applied to physiology, pathology, diagnosis and treatment to find out rough laws on diseases and their treatment.

    (3) Importance is attached to viscera, channels and collaterals to expound the physiological functions, pathological changes and their relations of five zang-organs six fu-organs, twelve main channels and eight extra channels.

    (4) Under the guidance of the above-mentioned theories, descriptions are made on six exopathic factors, seven emotions, diet, internal injury caused by overstrain, and other causes of diseases, as well as on the pathological changes of viscera, six kinds of natural factors, channels and collaterals.

    (5) Perscriptions are made on four diagnostic methods of inspection, auscultation and olfaction, interrogation, pulse feeling and palpation, and their concrete contents.

    (6) therapeutic principles are determined on preventively treating diseases, taking measures in line with different time, local condition and individual, treating superficiality and origin, applying routine treatment, treating a disease contrary to the routine, prescribing a recipe, imposing dietetic restraint, and conducting psychotherapy and acupuncture.

      In a relatively systematic theoretical system thus formed, an embryonic form of theory, therapy, recipe and drug became the theoretical source of TCM internal medicine.

      For years, the Chinese government has put great efforts in promoting the modernization of Chinese medicine. As a result, there are now professionals trained in both traditional Chinese medicine and Western medical arts to conduct research on the development of Chinese medicine. Also, some theories of TCM were expounded by using Western science methodologies. In China, there are two systems-- Western medicine and Chinese traditional medicine in one hospital. According to a patient's situation, the both sides can discuss and treat a patient with Western medicine and Chinese traditional medicine. The results for complicated and difficult cases can get great result.

      TCM possess a unique theoretic system, rich clinical experience and excellent clinical effects. It has made great contributions to the health of mankind. Either now or future, based on its own potential, TCM will play an increasingly important role in promoting the development of a world medicine, and more attention of people around the world.