Traditional Chinese medicine view each patient in a highly individual way, paying close attention to unique physical, psychological, emotional,and intellectual characteristics. Only with this comprehensive information are they able to make a diagnosis, and the treatment that follows is just as unique as the patient is.
Diagnosis
The method of investigation involves a diagnostic system called the four examinations. During your first visit, your practitioner will use these specific examinations to establish a complete picture of your whole system. This process reveals your inherent energy pattern and how your symptoms express them. The eight principles further define specific conditions and symptoms in term of Yin and Yang, internal and external, cold and hot, and deficiency and excess.
Treatment
TCM views human body holistic one and treats the whole body system. The results of such treatment often reflect those same biases which means through address the underlying dysfunction that allowed the condition to emerge.
According diagnosis, your treatment plan will be establish. The treatment principles of acupuncture and moxibustion are generally divided into four main aspects, reinforcing deficiency and reducing excess,clearing away heat and warming cold,treating the incidentals and the fundamentals, treat the same disease with different methods and treating different disease with the same methods.
In clinical treatment, make a careful differentiate at first and then determine the methods and prescription. following those steps, a good experience practitioner can bring you better result.