Chinese Medicine is based on the theory that all disorders and illnesses arise from an imbalance. This imbalance can be caused by problems arising from internal organs or the stagnation of energy circulating in the body. When the meridians or energy channels become blocked, the resulting imbalance of the body can cause illness. A trained Chinese doctor will be able to clear the energy block through acupuncture, and so restore the body's balance. The physician will also seek to strengthen the organs that were giving problems through Chinese Herbal Therapy.
Chinese medicine treats the cause of the disorder, and Western medicine the symptom of the disorder.
A Western doctor may prescribe the same medicine for the ailment, but the Chinese doctor will treat the underlying cause of eczema and in this case, one patient will be treated for a liver imbalance and the other for a spleen imbalance. The condition of your tongue, its overall colour and the coating will tell the doctor about the condition of your internal organs. Each of us has 125 different pulse rates to which Chinese doctors have been trained to be sensitive. From these pulse rates the doctor will again be able to tell the state of your internal organs. Acupuncture needles bear little resemblance to needles used in blood tests and injections.