Traditional Chinese Medicine
Traditional Chinese medicine is a broad range of medicine practices sharing common concepts which have been developed in China and are based on a tradition of more than 2,000 years, including various natural forms of treatments eg:
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Herbal medicine
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Acupuncture
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Moxibustion
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Cupping therapy
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Gua sha therapy
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Massage (Tui na)
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Exercise (qigong)
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Dietary therapy
What is Chinese Medicine?
Moxibustion therapy in China
Ancient Chinese Recipe Leads to Nobel Prize
Chinese-born Tu Youyou was a joint winner of this year’s Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for discovering artemisinin, a drug that has significantly reduced mortality rates for patients suffering from Malaria.
Philosophy of Chinese Medicine
Chinese medicine philosophy is based on Yin Yang theory.
Yin-Yang is the law of unity of opposites.
The aim of Chinese medicine is to keep the body in a dynamic balance in order to let the body working in harmony as a whole.