Western medical doctors are now acknowledging acupuncture’s potency as a treatment for many types of disease and some have actually studied this very old therapy to become practitioners of acupuncture themselves. Acupuncture Cleveland is actually a part of traditional Chinese medicine (TCM), a type of medicine entirely different in perspective to Western type of medicine especially when it comes to seeing what illness is in a person.
Traditional Chinese medicine bases its system on Taoism which espouses the belief that the human body is a small version of the universe, complete and with systems associated with each other. These systems interact to create harmony and balance which preserves and sustains health in the body. Two opposite principles of energy that exist in the body is called yin and yang by the Chinese. This duality like the positive and negative forces in electricity is always in motion and just like the positive and negative electrical forces their interaction with each other create energy and balance in the body. When either yin or yang is excessive or deficient in relation with each other, illness in the body arises. TCM practitioners see the spirit, mind and body as one whole system and they address the disease holistically. The yin and yang balance is seen in relation to the spirit (shen) and soul, emotions, the five elements, other bodily fluids, jing (essence), blood and qi or chi (breath or life force).
Treatments offered by TCM include Qi Gong exercises, herbal medicine and acupuncture. Acupuncture therapy energizes specific areas of the external body through the body’s meridians. Herbal medicine targets zang-fu organs internally while Qi Gong rectifies the flow in the energy vessels or meridians by controlling chi.
When you decide to go for TCM treatment, the practitioner will query you regarding your mental and emotional life and also about your physical symptoms. The practitioner performs some sort of physical examination on you by checking your pulse frequently and bases this on the state of your internal organs. He also checks the texture and color of your tongue. After doing this, he then has all the information he needs to develop a treatment plan that is created with your overall health in mind and not only for addressing the illness that you have presently.
Oftentimes, the practitioner opts for acupuncture therapy to energize certain areas of the body where affected meridians are located to help restore normal chi flow and balance. He can also opt for moxibustion therapy which is the burning of moxa plant over your body, cupping or deep tissue massage. Herbs are also frequently introduced to complement acupuncture or other therapies that would help restore energy balance to the body. Overall, TCM is a safe and very effective treatment to use especially when performed by a licensed and well-trained practitioner.
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