What is Chinese Medicine?
Chinese Medicine is an ancient, complex, and complete system of medicine which aims to treat the whole patient, body, mind, and spirit. The practice is informed by the principle that the body is an integrated whole. All the body’s structures are important and necessary for their function in the system that regulates the mind, the spirit, and the emotions, which is driven by life force, or qi. Chinese Medicine, and Five Element Theory in particular, draw from the principal that we are completely connected to nature. Chinese Medicine diagnosis is based not only on the physical form, but also age, phase of life, seasons, time and geography when a patient presents for treatment. At the center of Chinese Medical theory is the body’s inherent ability to regenerate and heal itself. Treatments aim to bring the body systems back into balance and harmony after exposure to internal or external pathogenic factors. At Card Integrative Acupuncture Group, practitioners utilize Chinese Medical modalities in combination with integrative therapies to individualize patient care.
Chinese Medicine is an ancient, complex, and complete system of medicine which aims to treat the whole patient, body, mind, and spirit. The practice is informed by the principle that the body is an integrated whole. All the body’s structures are important and necessary for their function in the system that regulates the mind, the spirit, and the emotions, which is driven by life force, or qi. Chinese Medicine, and Five Element Theory in particular, draw from the principal that we are completely connected to nature. Chinese Medicine diagnosis is based not only on the physical form, but also age, phase of life, seasons, time and geography when a patient presents for treatment. At the center of Chinese Medical theory is the body’s inherent ability to regenerate and heal itself. Treatments aim to bring the body systems back into balance and harmony after exposure to internal or external pathogenic factors. At Card Integrative Acupuncture Group, practitioners utilize Chinese Medical modalities in combination with integrative therapies to individualize patient care.
"To Balance is to Heal. To Harmonize is to Regulate. The needle and herb can Harmonize and Heal any sickness"
- Huang Di Nei Jing
