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Frequent Asked Questions (FAQs)
1. What type of service does your clinic provide?
As an alternative healthcare provider, we provide preventive and primary healthcare services using
comprehensive traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) approaches, including acupuncture, Chinese herbs,
Tai-Chi, and Qi-Gong.
2. Why different approaches are used in your practice?
We believe that acupuncture, herbs, Tui-Na, Qi-Gong, and Tai-chi benefit people in different ways and
they are complementary in nature. Since many diseases are the consequences of dysregulated multiple
systems of the body, using multiple approaches will speed up the healing process.
3. What is acupuncture?
Acupuncture is one of major TCM techniques used by TCM practitioners for disease prevention and
treatment. It involves inserting and manipulating fine filiform needles into specific points on the body to
help clean up the physical or mental mess. In addition, it also refers to heating acupoints with burning
moxa, called moxibustion, with the intention of stimulating circulation through the points and inducing a
smoother flow of blood and qi.
4. What are Chinese herbs?
Chinese herbs are another major TCM technique for health maintenance and disease management.
They are in forms of crude materials, prepared little pieces, patent pills/tablets and extracted powders.
They are generally taken orally.
5. What is Tui-Na?
Tui-Na is an adjunctive TCM technique mainly for both acute and chronic musculoskeletal conditions. It
is a hands-on-body therapy using acupressure. It involves brushing, kneading, rolling, pressing and
rubing the affected areas and relevant acupoints of the body.
6. What is Qi-Gong?
Qi-Gong is another adjunctive TCM technique for health maintenance and improvement. It is a breathing
exercise guided by Qi-focused meditation.
7. What is Qi then?
Qi is the core of TCM. It refers to systematic functionalities and energy.
8. What is Tai-Chi?
Tai-Chi is one of adjunctive TCM techniques for health maintenance and improvement. It is a set of slow
motion routines practiced for relieving stress.
9. Don't you think these old-fashion TCM approaches are outdated?
No. Facts speak for themselves. Many people have found that they can do even better than standard
therapies in the management of various types of disorders.
10. Why TCM techniques are considered nonscientific by mainstream scientific community?
Science is the effort to discover and increase human understanding of how reality works. So science per
se is not the reality. Although modern science can explain some basic physical and chemical
phenomena, it can hardly explain the complexity of biological phenomena. The failure to understand why
people develop a given disease using current experimental science does not mean the disease is not
scientific. As a matter of fact, the science methods per se are to blame. That is why increasingly number
of scientists are starting to change their research strategies from traditional analytic methods to holistic
systems approaches, which are applied by TCM. Therefore, we anticipate that the new emerging
systems biology will eventually provide supporting scientific evidence to validate the efficacy of TCM
remedies.
1. What type of service does your clinic provide?
As an alternative healthcare provider, we provide preventive and primary healthcare services using
comprehensive traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) approaches, including acupuncture, Chinese herbs,
Tai-Chi, and Qi-Gong.
2. Why different approaches are used in your practice?
We believe that acupuncture, herbs, Tui-Na, Qi-Gong, and Tai-chi benefit people in different ways and
they are complementary in nature. Since many diseases are the consequences of dysregulated multiple
systems of the body, using multiple approaches will speed up the healing process.
3. What is acupuncture?
Acupuncture is one of major TCM techniques used by TCM practitioners for disease prevention and
treatment. It involves inserting and manipulating fine filiform needles into specific points on the body to
help clean up the physical or mental mess. In addition, it also refers to heating acupoints with burning
moxa, called moxibustion, with the intention of stimulating circulation through the points and inducing a
smoother flow of blood and qi.
4. What are Chinese herbs?
Chinese herbs are another major TCM technique for health maintenance and disease management.
They are in forms of crude materials, prepared little pieces, patent pills/tablets and extracted powders.
They are generally taken orally.
5. What is Tui-Na?
Tui-Na is an adjunctive TCM technique mainly for both acute and chronic musculoskeletal conditions. It
is a hands-on-body therapy using acupressure. It involves brushing, kneading, rolling, pressing and
rubing the affected areas and relevant acupoints of the body.
6. What is Qi-Gong?
Qi-Gong is another adjunctive TCM technique for health maintenance and improvement. It is a breathing
exercise guided by Qi-focused meditation.
7. What is Qi then?
Qi is the core of TCM. It refers to systematic functionalities and energy.
8. What is Tai-Chi?
Tai-Chi is one of adjunctive TCM techniques for health maintenance and improvement. It is a set of slow
motion routines practiced for relieving stress.
9. Don't you think these old-fashion TCM approaches are outdated?
No. Facts speak for themselves. Many people have found that they can do even better than standard
therapies in the management of various types of disorders.
10. Why TCM techniques are considered nonscientific by mainstream scientific community?
Science is the effort to discover and increase human understanding of how reality works. So science per
se is not the reality. Although modern science can explain some basic physical and chemical
phenomena, it can hardly explain the complexity of biological phenomena. The failure to understand why
people develop a given disease using current experimental science does not mean the disease is not
scientific. As a matter of fact, the science methods per se are to blame. That is why increasingly number
of scientists are starting to change their research strategies from traditional analytic methods to holistic
systems approaches, which are applied by TCM. Therefore, we anticipate that the new emerging
systems biology will eventually provide supporting scientific evidence to validate the efficacy of TCM
remedies.
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