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Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) involves the use of Chinese herbal medicine, Acupuncture, Moxibustion, Qi gong, Tuina (Chinese massage), and a medicated diet, and is one of the world's most ancient medical systems, with its own principles, diagnostic methods and therapies. It has become very popular in the west.



Meridians and Collaterals

TCM views the meridians and collaterals networks using Zang-Fu, which categorises tissues and organs in an organic whole. Each Zang and Fu organ transports Qi and blood, and regulates Yin and Yang, maintaining the functions and activities of all parts of the body. This system guides the diagnosis, treatment and application of all the branch subjects of TCM.

Yin and Yang

TCM also holds as its central belief that health in all parts of body is due to the relationship between Yin and Yang. Yin and Yang theory is the general principle used to classify in TCM's holistic approach to health and disease, and also offers a clinical guide to preventing and curing disease.

Diagnosis

TCM's diagnosis depends merely on the doctor's sense organs to acquire clinical data. It mainly consists of the four techniques of diagnosis, namely: interrogation, inspection, auscultation (listening) and olfaction (smelling), pulse feeling and palpation.

Treatment

TCM has three basic components: Chinese herbal therapy, Acupuncture and Tuina (Chinese massage) therapy, and Diet therapy.

Chinese herbal therapy

This is based on the principle that good health depends on achieving optimum vitality and balance – a balance described in terms of the polarity of Yin and Yang.

Chinese herbs come from nature, and include flowers, stems, leaves, roots and barks. Each herb has its own specific characteristics. Their different characteristics are employed to treat disease, rectify the hyperactivity or hypoactivity of Yin or Yang, and help the body restore its normal physiological functions - consequently, curing the disease and restoring health.

Chinese herbal administration (herbal dosages and powder forms) usually depends on your condition, your constitution and age. It should be larger for serious emergencies and stubborn problems with a young and strong patient, smaller for mild problems, and with the aged, the frail, and with children and pregnant women.

The doctor will carefully select different herbal dosages or powder forms to treat you as your treatment starts, and closely monitor your progress through regular consultations. As your condition change, the treatment will be altered accordingly.

Acupuncture and Tuina therapy

These are two practical therapies in TCM. They are to regulate the meridians or channels of the body, to unblock the stagnation of Qi and blood, and balance Yin and Yang, maintaining their function, via the extraordinary points, scalp points, auricular points, and other special points by needle (in the case of Acupuncture) or by the fingers, hands and limbs of the Tuina therapist.

When using Tuina for infant and prenatal care, some special points exist besides the acupoints on the 14 meridians and extra-points. Manipulation using pushing, kneading, rubbing is mostly used.
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Diet Therapy

Each food (vegetable, fruit, meal, nut, etc.) has its own specific characteristics. We can guide you to the best foods to treat your condition, in accordance with the actual condition of disease, the characters and functions of the foods, and therapeutic requirements found through the doctor's consultation.

Other treatments

Moxibustion, Cupping therapy, Ear authority, Electrolysis, Electrotherapy (without needle) are often used. All of them work by same principles of acupuncture therapy.

What does Chinese Medicine treat?

TCM treats your mind and body as a whole, not just the condition. Using the principles of TCM, a very wide variety of conditions, and any age can be helped, including:

1.Common Internal Diseases

Anaemia, Asthma, Arthritis, Cerebral Thrombosis, Cold, Colitis, Constipation, Constipation, Cholecystitis, Coronary Heart Disease, Digestive Ulcers, Diabetes, Diarrhoea, Oedema, Flu, Gout, Headaches, Hypertension, Hyperlipoproteinemia, Hay fever, Irritable bowel syndrome, Malabsorption, Nephritis, Neurosis, Neurasthenia, Thyroid, Pneumonia, Pancreatitis, etc.

2.Women's problems

Pre-menstrual syndrome, Painful periods, Menopausal syndromes, endometriosis, Sterility, Morning sick, Pelvic Inflammation, etc.

3.Men's problems

Ejaculation Praecox, Hypertrophy, Low Steam Court, Impotence, Prostitutes, Sex Drive Problems.

4.Skin problems

Herpes Zoster, Contact Dermatitis, Eczema, Urticaria, Neurodermatitis, Psoriasis, Acne Vulgaris, Alopecia Areata, Resaca, etc.

5.Muscular, neurological, skeletal and vascular problems

Arthritis, Back Pain, Frozen Shoulder, Gonitis, Hemiplegia, Lumbago (lower back pain), Neuralgia, Omalgia, Sciatica, Stiff Neck Stroke, Sprain, Sports Injury, Tennis Elbow, Trigeminal, Tendon Injury, etc.

6.Mental and Emotional Problems

Anxiety, Depression, Stress, Panic Attack, Insomnia, Palpitation, etc.

7.Ear, Nose, Throat and Ophthalmic Problems

Conjunctivitis, Optic Neuritis, Myopia, Obits Media, Sore Throat, Hay Fever, Halitosis, Pharyngitis, Rhinitis, Sinusitis, etc.

8.Oncology

Liver Cancer, Lung Cancer, Gastric Cancer, etc.

Dr Lihua Li is fully qualified, trained in both Traditional Chinese Medicine and Western Medicine. She has a traditional chinese medicine clinic in London UK.. Services range from chinese acupuncture to tanning salon

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There are roughly 160 types of massage in the world. With that many modalities to choose from everyone should be about to find a type of massage that best suits them. Let's take a look at some of the more popular ones.

Swedish Massage

Swedish massage is sometimes called classic massage. This is the most widely practiced form of massage in the Western world. It involves the use of long flowing strokes. Many massage therapists learn Swedish massage in school. It is the foundation for a relaxation massage.

Sports Massage

Sports massage is a combination of Swedish massage and shiatsu. It focuses on various areas that may have been injured. When used on athletes this massage is given before an event to prepare the muscles, after an event to help restore the muscles and for injured muscles during training to speed recovery time. Sports massage is becoming more and more popular. It is sometimes offered in spas now.

Shiatsu

Shiatsu is a Japanese form of massage that follows the same principles as traditional Chinese medicine. Shiatsu therapists use their finger pressure to unblock energy pathways in your body. Shiatsu is a compressive massage. You stay fully clothed for the therapy.

Thai Massage

Also known as Thai yoga massage, Thai massage also involves unblocking energy pathways. For Thai massage you stay fully clothed and lay on a mat on the floor. The therapist starts by giving you some compression massage. Then you are placed passively into yoga like positions to stretch you muscles.

Tui Na

Tui na is a Chinese form of massage that usually accompanies acupuncture. The therapist works one specific area that you are having problems with. The work is usually quite deep and the massage is vigorous.

Reflexology

Reflexology, originally known as zone therapy, is a therapy that focuses on the feet, hands and ears. Foot reflexology is more popular than the other two forms. The reflexologist works on areas of the foot, hand or ear that correspond with organs and different areas of the body. They can treat dysfunction in any area of the body by massaging the hands, feet or ears.

Neuromusclar Therapy

This therapy is also called trigger point myotherapy. It involves the treatment of trigger points. A trigger point is an area where the muscle tissue in contracted, holding in toxins and preventing proper blood flow. These areas are quite painful due to damage caused by the starvation of tissue. Neuromuscular therapy treats these areas of dysfunction.

Now that you know about some basic forms of massage you can go out and try them. Maybe you'll discover a modality not mentioned here that's just right for you.

Lovelyn Bettison is a licensed massage therapist who believes in a holistic approach to health. You can learn more about types massage therapy and the conditions it can treat at her website. You can also learn how to treat yourself using self massage and how to give a massage to someone else.

http://www.massage-therapy-benefits.net

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The history of massage therapy is quite lengthy. Touch is among the earliest and most basic forms of communication. It was also the first way that early humans tried to heal each other's wounds. When you bang your funny bone isn't one of your first reactions to rub it?

Massage therapy has a rich tradition in India. It is an integral part of the traditional Indian medicine known as Ayurveda. Practitioners use massage to help balance their patients' energy. Chinese acupuncturists also make use of a form of massage called Tui Na. Tui massage to push and na means to pluck or pull. Thai massage is another ancient form of traditional healing. All of these examples point to massage being used by different cultures for healing early in history.

Ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs have been found portraying people getting foot massages. The earliest known mention of massage comes from China though. A text called "The Yellow Emperor's Classic of Internal Medicine" references the importance of massaging the flesh. This text dates from 2,500 BC. During the Tang Dynasty, which dates form 618 to 907 AD, there were 56 massage doctors in the imperial hospital.

The ancient Greeks also practiced massage therapy. Hippocrates, the father of Western medicine, wrote, "The physician must be experienced in many things but assuredly in rubbing, for rubbing can bind a joint that is too loose, and loosen a joint that is too rigid."

The most common form of massage practiced in the Western world today is Swedish massage. This style of massage came into being in the 18th century. Many people think that Peter Henrik Ling invented Swedish massage, but he did not. He did invent the Swedish Movement System and through some confusion this term became know as the Swedish massage system.

The names used to describe the strokes used in Swedish massage include:
Effleurage Petrissage Friction Tapotement


These words are French in origin and were adopted by a Dutch man named Johan Georg Mezger.

Massage was introduced to the United States in the 1800's but didn't start to become popular until the 1960's when it was embraced by the flower children of the era. As time passes and people become more and more informed about health and alternative therapies, massage's popularity continues to increase.

Lovelyn Bettison is a licensed massage therapist who believes in a holistic approach to health. You can learn more about massage therapy and the conditions it can treat at her website. You can also learn how to treat yourself using self massage and how to give a massage to someone else.

http://www.massage-therapy-benefits.net

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