I will regard my teachers in this art as equal to my parents and when seeing them in need to assist and share with them, in the tradition of my profession, I honour all who teach me this Art.
I shall look upon the misery of all patients as if it were my own and be anxious to relieve their distress with mercy and compassion.
I will follow those methods of diagnosis and treatment, which, according to my ability and judgment, are consistent with the principles of my profession.

http://www.ctcma.bc.ca/Documents/TCM Physician Oath.pdf

Chinese Medicine, and more specifically acupuncture, has become well known in the west for its effectiveness in treating many types of physical pain.
In Chinese medicine, digestion is spoken of as the separation of the pure from the turbid, where the spleen/stomach transforms and processes the food that we eat, retaining the clear substances (nutrients and food qi) and eliminating the impure.
The research team used the needle on patients with rotator cuff tendinitis, giving true acupuncture to 25 patients and the placebo treatment to 27.

This figure embodies our current level of understanding about this difficult disorder, as neither East nor West has a solid grasp of the causes or treatment of Obsessive- Compulsive Disorder (OCD).
From the perspective of Chinese medicine, this is an important distinction: consideration of OCD as an anxiety disorder will lead us down one path; considering the primary issue to be one of obsession will lead us down another.
Alongside the effects a Water disharmony may directly experience upon its own function, it also has a marked affect on other Elements.

Since 1972 our clinics have helped thousands of people to take back control of their health and alleviate suffering naturally.
A Chinese doctor will talk to you, ask you to stick out your tongue whilst probably taking your pulse and from this will be able to make a diagnosis.
Below are just a few extracts from AcuMedic video case records, featuring interviews with patients who volunteered to say a few words about their treatment at AcuMedic.

http://www.acumedic.com/pdf/patientsguide.pdf

Psoriasis is a common, chronic, recurrent disease of the skin characterized by rounded circumscribed dry erythematous, scaling patches of various sizes, covered by multilayer greyish white or silvery white scales which appear repeatedly on the erythema.
Similar descriptions of it can be found in some traditional Chinese medicine classics, which term the disease "white sore" (bai bi), "loose skin tinea' (song pi xuan) and "dry tinea" (gang xuan).
In traditional Chinese medicine, psoriasis is considered to be due to invasion of pathogenic wind which incubates in the yin and blood, or accumulation and stagnation of qi and blood caused by emotional upset.

http://www.fengliacupuncture.com/Psoriasis.pdf

Issued on Chinese Herbal Academy Listservice, August 1, 2002 There is one essential requirement for successfully transmitting a complex body of knowledge from one language community to another: There must be a target-language terminology that exactly mirrors the source-language terminology and that is precisely pegged to the source-language terminology so that it can be consistently applied by all translators and universally understood by all readers.

The contemporary Jungian psychologist Robert Moore has developed a map of the fundamental structure of the psyche, based on four primary energies.5 In his descriptions of the King, the Warrior, the Lover, and the Magician, we have a picture of the innermost regions of the collective unconscious.
The archetype of the Warrior is found around the world, symbolizing the virtues of commitment, focus, and sacrifice.

http://www.jademountain.net/PDF/ArchetypesOfUnconscious.pdf

Harriet Beinfield and Efrem Korngold, Traditional Acupuncture is a healing art and science which teaches how to see the entire human being in bodymindspirit, how to recognize the process of health and illness, and how to go about the restoration of lost health in an individual.
Each has its own sophisticated approach to the concept of treatment, but the basic principles of classical Chinese medicine are shared by all.
3In Discover (September, 1998, pages 58-62) Catherine Dold reviewed the work of physicist Zang-Hee Cho toward radio-imaging the workings of acupuncture.

Peter Holmes is a creative voice in the development of East Asian botanical medicine in the west.
His new book, Jade Remedies, will be an essential resource for health practitioners in every branch of the healing arts.
Little did I realize that I was taking the first step of a journey that was to continue to the present day---my exploration of Oriental medicine.
Preparing his Shang Han Lun formulas---the mainstay of Japanese Kampo---acquainted me first-hand with the most widely used Chinese botanicals.
conditions and in establishing modern hygiene, Chinese medicine finally found itself in a historical crisis.

http://www.snowlotus.org/pdf/JadeRemedies.pdf

The Newsletter of Acupuncture & Chinese Medicine by Dennis Barrow L.Ac.Dipl.Ac.
As women today begin the normal physiological change in life called menopause, they are greeted with confusion and controversy in the medical community and popular press.
Instead of the standard HRT offered by most Western gynecologists, Chinese medical practitioners offer treatment which may include herbal medicine, acupuncture, dietary suggestions, and/or lifestyle recommendations.
In a small study, researchers from the Walter Reed Medical Center have confirmed that acupuncture is an effective treatment for plantar fasciatis, one of the most common causes of heel pain.

3.20 -- 3.35 155 Ika Puspita Sari (Indonesia): Antiangiogenic activity of Indonesian plant (Gynura Procumbens (Lour.) Merr.) ethanolic extract
10.00 -- 10.15 183 Chris Zaslawski (Australia): Sham acupuncture - A feasible possibility or just a sham?
David Eisenberg (USA): US-China-Japan research consortium on herbal Ping-Chung Leung (HK, China): Difficulties of the clinical trials using Chinese Kenji Watanabe (Japan): Bridge between the western medicine and the Kampo Felix Wong (Australia): Should evidence based research apply to TCM? Australia, Taiwan.
tcmcrisis

This article1 is based on the conviction that the traditional art of Oriental medicine is dying - both in mainland China, home of the mother trunk of the field, and, consequently overseas where branches of the tree are trying to grow.

http://www.jcm.co.uk/SampleArticles/tcmcrisis.pdf