We cannot limit ourselves to treating merely a disease. We must go further and deeper, and examine our life choices and processes to understand the causative factors and then do progressive work from there.
In TCM, emotions and physical health are intimately connected. This integrated mind-body approach to health and healing operates in a dynamic loop where emotions impact the health of the body and vice versa. Click in to learn more.
TCM thought sees disease as disharmony; a disharmonious pattern between our bodies and our environment. Therefore, TCM aims to restore balance or homeostasis by... Western medicine sees disease in terms of biochemistry and bacteriology, not in terms of the harmony of the individual. It generally attempts to isolate Disease factors are factors associated with origins of imbalance in the body. We have three main categories of disease factors which can be understood in the chart below. The relationships between us and our environment may be divided into factors that are external: arising from our climate and environment, internal: arising...
