With over 2000 years of scholarship and clinical practice, Chinese medical acupuncture has remained relevant and effective.
Chinese medicine is a comprehensive theoretical framework of health and disease. Whilst its approach to analysing pathology is fundamentally different from a biomedical approach, it has its own internal logic and rigour.
Originating from this medical theory, acupuncture is the practice of inserting very fine-gauge needles into selected acupoints. Successful treatment is borne out of expert diagnosis of the condition, and selection of relevant, well-combined points according to the theoretical principles.
Different insights providing different solutions.
The complexity and depth of the theory is inevitably diluted and made vague in explanation.
But put very simply, Chinese medicine sees the body more as a landscape than a system of molecular/biochemical parts.
Purify your internal landscape
Following this simplified analogy through, the aim and effect of the treatment is to clean up, restore flow, purify, strengthen and revitalise that landscape.
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It is with this approach that disease is resolved and wellness restored.