Chinese Medicine is an ancient health system, developed in China. It has a history dating back between 2,000 and 5,000 years.
Over the centuries it has advanced into an enormous body of knowledge and medical theory that has, in recent times, spread across the globe. Chinese medicine is not static. It is open to the knowledge and influences of all culture, thus continuously expanding and enhancing its fundamental principles.
Chinese medicine is a holistic system using the belief that disease and illness are imbalances within the body's system, caused by both internal and external factors. Chinese medicine basis most of its theory of qi. Qi is the life forces, or energies, of the body which generates the functioning of all the body's systems. Chinese medicine expresses itself through a number of different modalities. These are; ACUPUNCTURE & MOXABUSTION, HERBAL MEDICINE, LIFESTYLE & DIET, and TUINA.
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