What differentiates Acupuncture and Chinese Herbal Medicine from Western medicine?

1. The basic principle of acupuncture:  Our body has a remarkable ability to heal itself using its own energy, called Qi.  Symptoms arise because our body is out of balance energetically.  Acupuncture treatment balances the body’s excesses and deficiencies.

2. Chinese Medicine diagnosis is based on not just symptoms but taking into consideration the whole person. Most often, illness of a patient is the end results of his/her makeup of individual constitution, age, sex, personal relationships or lack thereof, job, and environmental influences.

3. Acupuncture treatment focuses on treating acute symptoms as well as the underlying chronic symptoms. Therefore it has long lasting effect of maintaining and balancing health.

4. Chinese Herbal Medication is based on classical herbal formulas that have been developed, modified and adjusted for more than a thousand years. They are natural plant, animal and mineral-based products processed under standard methods.