Why Traditional Chinese Medicine?
Each person on this planet is different. Each disease pattern will be manifested just as differently. Why should a person be issued the same prescription that the person just before them had issued to them??? The odds are is that they shouldn’t. The outside disharmonies(s) may be the same, for instance a headache and nausea, but the pattern, sub-pattern and root cause most likely are not. This is the ultimate beauty of Traditional Chinese Medicine. In TCM multiple groups of disharmonies [basically complaints] can be categorized and dealt with on an individual basis returning health care back to a personalized event. That is…seeing a healer concerned only with your individual harmonization or recovery back to homeostasis.TCM is one of the oldest continually practiced means of medicine on the planet. Utilizing such ingenious and elemental concepts as: Yin or Yang, hot or cold and wet or dry and The Five Element Theory TCM is superior in its innate perception of both your body’s needs and requirements. For those of you purchasing our balanced pre-made formulas by following the Body Guide, Patterns, Disharmonies and Treatments pages listed you should be able to find the closest resemblance of your self and purchase the recommended formulas. We also offer an online consultation to further help with the clarification of your personal pattern, and to customize your treatment program.
Why Traditional Chinese Medicine Works
I can not tell you how many people step into our office, stare at all the herbs in jars on the wall, and ask, “How does this work?” My usual response is to reply that we look at why... not what. "What" can be defined as the plethora of biomedical diseases named by western medicine. For example: migraine headaches, PMS, Parkinson’s, chronic fatigue, fibromyalgia and so on… It is easy to name a disease, but where does it come from and why has it manifested in you and not the next person?There is an actual Chinese word [character or thought] for the most importantly "why" part of my answer. It is ben or root cause. For example: Some people have chronic headaches while others can’t sleep at night. Why do certain people have one complaint and not another? There is an underlying pattern or root cause that must be addressed. First, TCM is able to recognize the internal problem by the outer manifestations and categorize it into logical causes by following the Five Elemental, Eight Parameter, pulse reading and tongue diagnostic methods. A headache, for example, is broken down into a subcategory looking at its nature, timing, location and intensity. It can come from a weakened digestion or a non-regulating, stagnation in the Liver Organ System. Both Patterns are completely different, but possibly related.
The Benefits of Traditional Chinese Medicine
TCM is based on prevention as much as it is highly effective on long-term, chronic patterns that afflict so many of you. Using raw, natural herbs are safe, affordable and have virtually no side effects. We have spoken to many chemists about the synthesizing of natural substances in which they state that there is still no way to ‘copy’ nature. This is why most chemical prescriptions have a ‘side effect’ warnings attached to them. TCM has the ability to promote and maintain a standard of health which comes from a persons own ability to regulate and ward-off disease factors. Each of us is a microcosmic unit of elements, emotions and spirit. By helping you to harmonize these three aspects robust health can be attained. A person can stay on the herbs indefinitely because they are just that, herbs, found growing naturally on the earth, natures healing gift to all. We suggest, in the least, a detox, yin and yang type formula once a month to regulate and promote the body’s natural healing process.Prevention of Disease
The area of disease prevention is vastly becoming a more accepted and viable way of thought and for that matter...belief. Even with the most open mind disease prevention is still quite a hard concept to comprehend. Convincing the average person to take preventive health measures years before possibly becoming ill with a serious disease is not an easy task.
Throughout the ages humans have entertained the idea of extending their lives well beyond the norm. The question is why some people become ill while others do not. Maybe the answer is that the healthy person, either by choice or by chance, is living a correct life style leading to a healthy immune response, bio-physical state of health and mental outlook.
For many of you the deeper question is “what can I do?” For thousands of years the great Chinese physicians believed in taking measures to ward off disease by keeping a patient’s organ system harmonized. They would only accept money while the patient was healthy. If the patient became ill, no money was accepted, and the doctor would work very hard to restore the patient’s health. A concept sadly reversed in the rest of the world!
Chinese Medicine states that if all of the five organ networks are working harmoniously disease will not be able to penetrate. Taking herbal formulas from Heaven and Earth CMHC on a regular basis is an excellent way to help regulate, maintain and promote the organ networks and create a powerful resistance factor. We should all try to follow the ancient Chinese concepts and take the formulas as a new basis for a standard of health and longevity.
