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Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) and its defining treatment systems, acupuncture and herbal medicine, are based in an ancient culture that took a whole systems view of the human body. TCM is a medicine less of cause and effect and more of relationships. TCM does not necessarily ask how A causes B, but what relationship A has with B and thus how to create a more harmonious dynamic between these factors. In effect, TMC is a medicine concerned with relationships, the relationships that make up the human body as well as the relationships human beings have with nature and community.
Unlike modern medicine, which takes a more specialized and focused view of disease, TMC takes a broader and more encompassed approach. This allows the entirety of a person's health state to be considered. Diagnosis in TCM is based on understanding the dynamic interplay of the systems of the human body and creating a unified matrix of treatment approaches. When the body's systems are thrown out of balance for one reason or another, we call the expressions of this dysfunction “patterns of disharmony”. TCM works to diminish and eradicate disharmonious states in the body by promoting healthy ones.
Acupuncture is the practice of inserting extremely fine needles into specific points on the body. These acupoints are located at junctures on the surface of the body that have been mapped out over thousands of years. These points were discovered using a sophisticated sense of human anatomy as well as observation of universally common areas that accrue tension as a result of human physiology.
Acupuncture points are not only selected based on the TMC diagnosis of each patient, but by having a skilled sense of each individual's anatomy and where each person may carry blockages or dysfunction.