Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) is a holistic system based on the theory that health and longevity is the result of living in harmony. Disease is just the result of some type of disharmony.

TCM uses two basic systems to determine the type of disharmony befalling a patient and appropriate treatment thereof: the Yin/Yang duality, and the Five-Element theory (wood, fire, earth, metal, and water). In TCM, everything in nature is associated to one of the five elements (health problems, organs, part of the body, emotions, plants, herbal remedies, seasons, etc.) and treatment may so be designed accordingly.

A TCM practitioner is trained to seek patterns of disharmony or imbalances using both systems and will try to restore balance according to these systems.

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