Chinese Medicine

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Chinese Medicine (CM) as a medical system that has been continuously growing for more than 2000 years and was empirically evaluated even since an early stage, considers the human being holistically with all their physical and psychogenic aspects in the context of their environment.


Methods of CM include
 

•     Chinese hebal medicine (CHM)

 

•     Acupuncture,

 

•     5 elements dietetics

 

•     Tuina (manual therapy and massage system)

 

•     Moxibustion

 

•     Guasha

 

•     Qigong.

One of the strengths of Chinese medicine is that diseases may be detected, or symptoms classified, before they can be identified with the diagnostic methods of biophysical medicine.

In the comunity clinic *Praxis im Gaengeviertel*, among other complaints we treat accordingly

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•    Orthopaedic complaints:

          Acute and chronic pain, e.g. headaches of various causes, painful hardening of  

          the shoulder-neck musculature, lumbar spine complaints, ...

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•     Respiratory diseases

 

•     Allergic complaints, e.g. hay fever

 

•     Gastrointestinal disorders

 

•     Gynaecological and hormonal complaints

 

•     Nervousness and sleep disorders

 

•     Psychological and psychosomatic complaints

 

•     States of exhaustion

Besides:

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•     Strengthening the immune system

•     Health prevention ('Yang Sheng')

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Background information

In Chinese medicine, diseases are considered as imbalances and are described using models (e.g. Yin Yang, Wu Xing/ 5 phases of change, 6 levels, channel theory, etc.).

Therapeutical aim is both to treat the symptoms and restore the harmony of those (physical as well as psychological or mental) aspects that have turned 'out of balence' and have resulted in the respective disorder/disease.
 

Acupuncture and CHM are among the 'best known' of these therapies, and are often used in combination.

A special CM-capacity is the treatment of so-called functional diseases, i.e. those diseases for which no manifest substantial damage can yet be proven, i.e. for which the usual diagnostics by means of laboratory or imaging do not yet produce results.

By means of Chinese medical pulse and tongue diagnostics, it is often possible to bring 'light into the darkness' and 'a red thread' into a set of a patient`s symptoms that otherwise is difficult to classify.

Chinese medicine methods can also be applied in order to treat diseases that have already caused organic/substantial damage.

Whether it is applied in parallel with biomedical treatments (the terms 'conventional medicine' or 'western medicine' are considered obsolete today), at different times, or instead of biomedical treatment must be assessed on a case-by-case basis.

 

The effectiveness of acupuncture and the efficacy of various Chinese herbal medicine applications in the treatment of several indications are well researched by now. For some indications, acupuncture is already listed among the evidence-based therapies. (Evidence-based means that the results of a number of scientifically high-quality studies on the same topic are checked for congruence, compared statistically (meta-analyses) and that these findings are combined with the patient`s goals and the therapist`s experience).


Please feel free to contact us with your specific requests.

Chinese medicine practitioner Mr. May in the community clinic

*Praxis im Gaengeviertel* will be pleased to advise you.

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