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Chinese Medicine

Chinese Medicine is a 5,000-year-old comprehensive body of empirical medicine that connects the body with nature, recognizing energy, or Qi (pronounced Chee), as the force of life, and understanding the necessary balance between each person and the world. Chinese Medicine has endured over 5,000 years of human trials, and quality control is inherent in its time-tested design.

Chinese Medicine is comprised of five principal methods of treatment: Acupuncture, Herbal Medicine, Tui Na, Feng Shui, and Qi Gong. These treatment protocols, which also encompass diet, and lifestyle guidelines, establish both a connection and a language for communication between mind and body.

In Chinese Medicine theory, negative, cold, damp energy, Yin, must balance with positive, hot, dry energy, Yang, to stimulate and create a natural flow of energy throughout 20 meridians, or pathways, in the body. Chinese Medicine restores health to vital organs and body systems by initiating corrective changes within the body.

Where Western medicine was founded on the battlefield, and much of its theoretical foundation is in treatment of trauma, Chinese Medicine has developed empirically, and bases its practice in prevention and correction of disease patterns that occur in the human body.