What is chinese medicine?

Question

and how does it work?

and what can it be used to treat ?

Answer 1

It is an ancient practice of herbs and acupuncture and chee yin and yang

It is used to treat Back and Spinal issues, Headaches, Infertility, Hair Loss, Over Weight, Vision Problems, Anxiety Issues It is an alternative to traditional prescribed medications

Answer 2

medicine practiced in china...

I believe you are talking more about acupuncture, herbal medicines.  Aside from acupunture herbal and natural medicine is not restricted to being just chinese.

Answer 3

chinese medicine is medicine from china...

Answer 4

don't know

Answer 5

Medicine that cures everything with 1 dose

Answer 6

Presumably, you are referring to what is called Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM).  This is a form of medicine that includes acupuncture, herbal remedies, and manipulative therapies (tui na).  Although most practitioners in this country (USA) use only acupuncture (a few use more).

In VERY simple terms, illness is defined as an imbalance in your body's energies and/or an invasion of "bad" energy, depending on the disorder.  Pain, of course, can come from one of these imbalances or from injury.  The practitioner of TCM attempts to bring these energies back in balance, or expel the invading energy, in order to return the health of the patient.  It is a bit more complex than that, of course, but time and space are limited.

TCM, in theory, can treat nearly anything.  But remember that to TREAT is not necessarily to CURE.  For instance, there are herbal remedies to treat tuberculosis (symptoms, mostly), but no TCM practitioner in his/her right mind is going to suggest that you forgo antibiotics for herbs in that case.  Most patients come for pain control or chronic problems (e.g. irritable bowel syndrome) for which there is no effective conventional treatment.

Also try here:

http://www.qi-journal.com/tcm.asp

Answer 7

not sure about your question, but in china acupuncture is commonly practiced, it's when you stick needles on people's body to release certain points.