Thu Thuy

Due to a certain "life change" (yes I got married) I found myself having insurance coverage like never before. I absolutely adore acupuncture so I thought, thuc pham chong ung thu well, need it or not, I can have this service and it is COVERED!!! So lately, I have been receiving wonderful relaxing treatments by a woman down the street here in West Hollywood. So wonderful and relaxing I think she should have me sign a waiver before driving home. During one of my sessions while I was looking at all of her herbs, it dawned on me that during my training and now in practice, I use a ton of western botanicals but not a lot of eastern ones, so, what better topic to review and share!

Chinese herbs have been around for a long, long time - five thousand years, give or take a few - and they are highly effective for treating all sorts of health problems. I believe that they work best when used within the paradigm of Oriental medicine. In other words, chia se bi quyet lam giam can nhanh nhat Chinese herbs are much more likely to work well when a patient receives the herbal prescription from a traditional Chinese medicine practitioner, and receives the practitioner's guidance and support around using those herbs.

Some 500 to 600 herbs, animal byproducts, and minerals comprise the traditional Chinese materia medica. These herbs are used by TCM practitioners in all kinds of combinations, based on a complex diagnostic system. Naturopathic and TCM doctors use the same general approach - we base diagnosis and treatment on evaluation of imbalances, deficiencies, and excesses, and the ability of various treatments to counteract them. TCM is based on ancient theories involving the flow of energy (qi), made up of a balance of yin and yang energies, along energy pathways (meridians) that run throughout the body. Qi is manipulated by supporting either yin or yang with specific herbal combinations, or by directing its movement with acupuncture, acupressure, cupping (where glass vials are applied to the skin with a gentle vacuum) or moxibustion (burning of herbs at acupuncture points).

Many Chinese herbs are beginning to enter the mainstream of herbal medicine, and these herbs are widely available in health food and supplement stores and increa