Traditional Chinese Medicine (in the English - and German-speaking countries known as TCM) is the healing arts,
in China for over 2000 years and more than justified the centuries developed.
The oldest surviving texts on traditional Chinese medicine, are still in use and
be attributed to Chinese emperors. Secure, it is at least 2000 years Shennong Bencao Jing,
a herbal medicine, and the Neijing Huangdi, a detailed presentation of both diagnostic and therapeutic procedures
as well as acupuncture were recorded. After the start of our era was the Shang Han Lun,
a treatise on cold diseases. It is regarded as the oldest treatise clinical medical history.
Among the therapeutic procedures in the application of TCM include drug therapy,
as acupuncture, cupping and moxibustion (warming of acupuncture points), massage (Tuina or Gua Sha),
on a mechanism of action of drugs oriented Dietetics and movement exercises such as Qigong and Tai Chi.
The TCM has five pillars of treatment, four treatments can be found from the outside.
It will either acupuncture or heat treatment with Moxa, massage, drug therapy and nutrition tries
a balance of the conversion phases of water (regenerative phase), Earth (starting point, destination);
Wood (deployment phase), fire (movement and action phase) and metal (reversed phase) at the patient achieve.
The fifth pillar is the active motion studies, such as Tai Chi and Qigong.
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