Acupuncture is an essential part of traditional Oriental medicine, a comprehensive system of health care with a continuous clinical history of over 3000 years. Oriental medicine includes acupuncture, Chinese herbology and bodywork, dietary therapy and exercise based on traditional Oriental medicine principles. These therapies work with the natural vial energy inherent within all living things to promote the body's ability to heal itself. Acupuncture focuses on our qi, or vital energy. Disease is considered to arise due to a deficiency or imbalance of energy in the meridians and their associated physiological systems.
Acupuncture points are specific locations along the meridians.
Each point has a predictable effect upon the vital energy passing through it. Modern science as been able to measure the electrical charge at these points, thus corroborating the locations of the meridians mapped by the ancients. John and Li Jie use the TCM system of pulse and tongue diagnosis, palpation of points and meridians, medical history and other signs and symptoms to create a composite Oriental Medicine diagnosis. Many conditions may be alleviated very rapidly by acupuncture and Oriental medicine. However, some conditions that have arisen over a long course of years will be relived only with slow, steady progress.