"Think of Western medicine as looking at the tree and Eastern medicine as looking at the whole forest." Practitioners of traditional Chinese medicine often cite this analogy to describe their alternative medicines and practices. The practices do not contradict each other, but rather take two different approaches - while Western medicine looks at nerve endings linking to muscles and organs, Eastern medicine looks at the lack or excess of energy.
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Many Americans don't realize that traditional Chinese medicines date back nearly 5,000 years, passed down by oral tradition until about 3,000 years ago when people began writing down their findings in ancient texts like "Basic Questions of Internal Medicine" and "A Treatise On Cold Damage." In the 1930s, the Nationalist government forbade doctors from practicing what was then called classic Chinese medicine because they feared missing out on scientific progress. Mao Zedong chose ten respected doctors to generate the standardized practice called Traditional Chinese Medicine thirty years later. Chinese schools today teach TCM and around the world schools are opening in England, Russia and the US.
One of the basic principles of TMC is the Taoist idea of "Yin and Yang.The school of Chinese medicine uses the term to describe series of opposites; for example, dark and light, movement and stillness, hot and cold. The body goes through constant motion, just like the seasons. If the cycle of equilibrium is disrupted and there's an excess of something or deficiency of something, then the body naturally breaks down.
The Zang Fu Theory of traditional Chinese medicine describes the functions and interrelation of various organs within the body. For instance, a Yin organ like the lungs is required to disperse Qi (energy) throughout the body. The lungs govern skin, hair and thwarting external illnesses. If the lung is weakened by dryness or emotional grief, then the sufferer may show signs of eczema, coughing or may be prone to the flu.
Traditional Chinese medicine doctors can give you many surprising solutions to common ailments. For instance, women suffering premenstrual syndrome can be treated with herbal supplements like angelica to relieve cramping, buplerum to relieve irritability and irregularity with biota seed. The good news about Chinese herbal medicines is that they're safer and less expensive than other drugs on the market.
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