What is Traditional Chinese Medicine?
A: Traditional Chinese Medicine(TCM) is an ancient medical system, which has been existing for thousands years in China. The theory of TCM is based on Chinese ancient knowledge of anatomy, physiology, herbal knowledge and clinic experience. In this system, doctors will diagnose patient with special techniques involved with detecting the patients'  symptoms, pulse, throat, tongue, color of the face, the sound of patient etc. After the doctor give a diagnosis, patient will receive treatment including herbal medicine, acupuncture or acupressure to get rid of the disease.

Q: What is acupuncture?

A: Acupuncture is a treatment method of Chinese medicine, which can relieve pain and cure diseases. The procedure involves the insertion of needles into various points of the body. Acupuncture has been used to treat conditions such as asthma, deafness, migraines, ulcers, eye diseases, and some types of mental illness including addictions.
According to Chinese philosophy, disease and pain occur because of animbalance between two principal forces of nature-Yin and Yang. Acupuncture is thought to restore this balance. Many Chinese and other people believe acupuncture influences a life force that flows along 12 paired and 2 unpaired meridians, channels of energy that run longitudinally in the body. Therapists called acupuncturists insert sharp needles at one or more of hundreds of specific points along the meridian.Insertion of the needles produces a sharp pinching feeling.



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