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Acupuncture
Acupuncture is the most famous Chinese medicine modality in the West. It is particularly known for treatment of pain, but is effective for a wide range of disorders in various departments of medicine. It involves the insertion of very fine needles into places on the body conventionally known as acupuncture “points”. These areas are on pathways, known as channels, or sometimes meridians.
An NYC analogy I often use is this: think of the channels as the various subway lines, and the places where the needles are inserted like the subway stops, where you can descend underground (usually) and access those lines. To continue that analogy, New Yorkers have all experienced what happens when there is a train delay on the subway, or being stuck in a stalled train car. Think of the myriad of effects that spread out from that one delay: not only all the trains that are backed up, all the people that are late, both on that train and others, but all the other effects that ensue. All the needless stress, frustration, headaches (sometimes figurative, sometimes literal), fatigue from standing in a crowd, and all the further consequences of being made late. Imagine if there was a way to quickly remove that blockage and get the train moving again. That is essentially what acupuncture is and what it does; it quickly releases areas of tension and blockage in your body and allows things to move again.
Just as that one stalled train car can cause problems throughout the subway system, affecting other trains behind it, people at the stations in front of it, and sometimes even effecting other train lines, perhaps even in other boroughs, so one area of tension, stress, or blockage in your body can spread out to affect various other areas of your body, in many ways beyond the obvious, and releasing that one area (or areas) can produce tremendous improvement in several other ways, in many other areas of the body, beyond just where the tension may be.
Moxibustion
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Corrective exercise
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Dietary therapy
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Cupping, Gua Sha, and other adjunctive modalities
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Herbal Medicine
Although acupuncture is the most famous modality in the West, for most of the history of Chinese Medicine herbal medicine has been a t the forefront, especially for internal medicine disorders. More so than any other modality, herbal medicine exemplifies the principle that is at the heart of Chinese Medicine: individualized treatment for each and every patient based upon differential diagnosis of the illness they are seeking treatment for. In the Chinese Medicine tradition herbs are almost never used by themselves, but rather in formulas which are combinations of various herbs that complement, enhance, and balance out each others functions. These can be based on extant established formulas, the oldest of which were written approximately 1,800 years ago, and some of which have been written in the present day, which are then modified to meet the individualized needs of the specific patient. In addition, sometimes new formulas are written spontaneously to match the presentation of that particular patient, if no particular established formula is a perfect fit. Herbal medicine in the Chinese tradition draws on a repertoire of thousands of different substances which are categorized by their therapeutic actions in the body, fundamental properties, optimal pairings/groupings, and the formulas they are used in.
QIGONG
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Meditation
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Tui Na
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