Acupuncture & Traditional Chinese Medicine

Acupuncture is based on the understanding that human beings are complex bioelectrical systems, and that an energy called Chi circulates throughout the body along pathways called meridians. If the Chi circulation is disrupted, the body cannot function optimally, and disease results in the organ or system that is connected. Stimulating acupuncture points can restore balance, natural flow, and rhythm. Acupuncture is useful not only in pain management and analgesia, but in managing medical conditions such as allergies, asthma, arthritis, sinusitis, facial palsy, fibromyalgia and chronic fatigue. It can also be an alternative to surgical facelifts.

Just as certain acupuncture points have different functions to correct the flow of Chi, so do Chinese herbs.  But while acupuncture uses external energies to promote healing, herbal medicine works internally to restore the body to balance.  So in this way acupuncture and herbs work together to promote healing.  Herbal medicine can treat similar conditions to acupuncture.