Benefits

Traditional Chinese medicine offers the following benefits:

• It is believed by some to treat certain chronic illnesses more effectively than Western medicine.
• It is holistic; all aspects of the person's being are taken into account.
• It treats the root cause of the disease as well as the manifest symptoms. Chinese practitioners distinguish between the root (ben) of an illness and its branches (biao). The root is the basic pattern of imbalance in the patient's qi; the branches are the evident symptoms.
• Traditional Chinese medicine does not rely on pharmaceutical products that often cause side effects.
• It improves a person's general health as well as treating specific diseases or disorders.
• It is often less expensive than standard allopathic treatment.
• It is not a self-enclosed system but can be used in combination with Western medicine.
• It can be used to treat the side effects of Western modalities of treatment.