This is an opportune time for you to consider a career in traditional Chinese medicine and acupuncture.
Patients are looking for alternatives and complementary treatments including acupuncture and traditional Chinese medicine for health promotion and disease prevention.
If you wish to become a TCM practitioner in Canada or the United States, TSTCM provides you with the knowledge and skills you need to reach your goal.

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Like all branches of Chinese Medicine, traditional gynaecology has a long history.
The main difference between Western and Chinese gynaecology is that western gynaecology deals in general with problems of structural diseases detectable by visual or microscopic examination of the tissues and organs involved.
Rather more than 150 different herbs are used, usually given in a complex formula of 15 herbs or more.
'Having already had one child successfully through IVF treatment, I had been trying for 4 years to conceive again through IVF unsuccessfully.

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It is impossible to know exactly when the Chinese started to use herbal medicine.
After using and accumulating information about herbal medicine for thousands of years, the first book of Chinese herbal medicine, Shen Nong Ben Cao Jing (Ben means root and Cao means shoot) was written about 2500 years after the death of Shen Nong.
For disorders with a hot nature (Yang diseases) the formula will be cold (Yin medicines).

Some foods to avoid, limit or remove from your diet during the fall season are: 1) allergens/food intolerances, especially milk and milk products; 2) grains, especially wheat; stimulating foods, spicy foods, alcohol, caffeine and cold drinks; 3) white bread, refined foods, processed foods, sugar and sweets, catarrh-forming foods: oranges, tofu, tomatoes; 4) meat, ice cream, shellfish; 5) cooling foods and eggs are contraindicated for some conditions, while garlic, fresh ginger, pork, mustard green, sweet rice, sugar and walnuts should not be used for others.; 6) for excess phlegm in the lungs avoid dairy, soy products, coconut, sugar, sweet rice, persimmon, pork, almond, honey and peanuts.
Asthma is defined as hypersensitivity reaction causing brochospasm, mucosal edema and increased bronchial mucous secretion leading to respiratory distress. asthma, sweet rice.
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Compared with the enormous efforts devoted to research on the history of Western medicine in a number of European countries as well as in the United States, research on the history of medicine and health care in China is a rather neglected subject.
Just as we Europeans focus our research on the history of Western medicine, the Chinese should focus their research on the history of Chinese medicine.
That is, an itinerant healer carries with him a banner or poster with, for instance, illustrations of the body's organs.

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To provide educational opportunities that Bridge the Gap Between Eastern and Western Medicine.
The International Institute of Oriental Medicine (IIOM) was established in 1999 to meet the growing demand for quality Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine Education in the Western Medicine community.
IIOM's primary focus is to Bridge the Gap Between Eastern and Western Medicine Practitioners by providing quality and timely education for the medical practitioner interested in understanding and/or applying the principles and theories of Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine to their medical practice.

http://www.iiom.net/documents/IIOM INTRO CATALOGUE-1-04.pdf

and Bonnie L Walker, DC If you are already familiar with Chinese medicine as it is currently practiced then you may not be very comfortable with much of what you are about to read.
Chinese medicine is the oldest known health care system still in practice, having been practiced continuously in China for 5000 years on one quarter of the world's population.
Nutritive energy, or Ying Qi, is an alimentary or digestive energy which is produced from the foods we eat and the air we breathe.

Medical ideas that underlie the practice of Chinese medicine, have been received with increasing attention and acceptance in Europe and the United States in the last decades.
My own involvement with Chinese medicine began in the sixties when only a discrete minority of physicians had ever even heard of acupuncture or applied the technique clinically.
The pharmaceutical tradition of Chinese medicine over the centuries developed into the dominant The traditional Chinese pharmaceutical method of treating illness.
Every diagnosis ideally leads to a therapy.

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Many people with hepatitis C virus (HCV) are turning to Chinese traditional medicine for treatment.
The Chinese are working to eliminate sources of hepatitis, and to develop treatments for chronic viral hepatitis using both Chinese traditional medicine and western medicine.
In the United States, Chinese traditional medicine is a popular complementary and alterna tive medicine (CAM) therapy among patients with chronic liver disease.
According to Chinese traditional medicine literature, people in China have experienced the various syndromes associated with HCV infection for over 2000 years.
This is because Chinese traditional medicine diagnoses are based on symptoms, not on detection of antibod ies to a specific virus.

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Influenza is an acute viral respiratory illness.
Chinese medicine recognizes several patterns responsible for influenza.
Improper diagnosis and treatment may result in exacerbation of your symptoms.
Nutritionally, the recommended eating principles should be: 1) eat as little as possible, 2) increase foods rich in Vitamin C, 3) fast for a short period, 4) eat foods that are easy to digest, 5) drink plenty of liquids: water, water and honey, 6) support the spleen & stomach, nourish immune system (Wei Qi).

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For others, the onset of menopause can be much more challenging and may include symptoms like hot flashes, night sweats, thirst, and insomnia.
While Western Medicine ascribes these changes to a shift in ovarian function and decreasing levels of hormones, Chinese Medicine looks at this process a bit differently.
In Chinese Medicine, the kidneys are largely responsible for the development and decline of female fertility.
Hot flashes are usually caused by a weakness in the kidneys known as yin deficiency.
The Yang aspect of the kidneys (the masculine) is more energetic in nature.

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