What is TCM (Traditional Chinese medicine)?
Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) has formed a unique system to diagnose and cure illness for thousands of years since ancient China. This natural healing system has four distinct divisions: acupuncture, herbology, TuiNa (Chinese massage), and food cures. Some TCM remedial exercises like qi-gong, and tai-ji can also be of benefits to patients. TCM views our health in a holistic fashion. TCM applies the yin – yang principle of interconnection and continuous transformation to the human body to explain its physiology and pathology and further to guide clinical diagnosis and treatment the body. In the theories of TCM, a root cause for occurrence and development of a disease is imbalance between yin and yang. A doctor of TCM diagnoses a patient by four clinical examinations: observing, listening and smelling, interviewing and pulse-taking. Once an illness is diagnosed, the doctor will prescribe a treatment that will focus on restoring the balance of the body’s yin – yang . Treatment such a
