Traditional Chinese Medicine’s (TCM)
greatest strength is its holistic approach to balancing the whole
body. Whereas Western medicine uses narrowly defined specialties
to treat one symptom at a time, TCM is focused on the relationships
among all the body’s systems. A TCM practioner first identifies
the underlying disharmony and then formulates a customized treatment
to bring an individual’s unique constitution into balance.
It treats the “root” cause to improve the “branch”
ailments.
Over the past 2000+ years, TCM has continuously
refined a sophisticated theoretical framework to diagnose and
treat the whole body. Unlike pharmaceuticals that isolate a single
compound to treat a single symptom, TCM individualizes a formula
of whole herbs to gently rebalance the body. As a result, herbal
formulas offer virtually no negative side effects. Patients often
report positive side effects such as better sleep or an energized
feeling of well being.