“What do you do for work?”
I stumbled almost every time someone asked me this question.
They are asking about my occupation and maybe even my credentials.
“Licensed Acupuncturist”, “Certified Personal Trainer” are my standard answers.
At this point, people usually form some ideas in their heads based on their understanding and experience with people who have these titles.
However, these ideas might or might not be true.
For example, most people think Acupuncture is only effective for pain and musculoskeletal injuries.
In reality, you can use acupuncture for the common cold, allergies, food poisoning, autoimmune disease, infertility, and more.
I want to write a series of posts to give you more clarity and understanding, and I hope to demystify Chinese Medicine as well.
Acupuncture treatment and herbal medicine have been around for about 5300 years, which were confirmed by Archeologists. They found a tattooed mummified body named Ötzi The Iceman during that period, who seemed to have degenerative joint issues, gastrointestinal issues and arterial calcifications. They also found medical tattoos on different acupuncture points and herbal medicine used in his equipment and intestines.
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Fascinating news, isn’t it?
As you see from the picture, the human body has a map of an energetic network, known as Jin Luo “meridians”/ “channels” and “collaterals”.
This energetic system represents the physical manifestation of the body form.
“Dis-eases” arise when the energetic network is out of balance.
The oldest Chinese Medicine texts were a little over 2000 years old and part of the Chinese Medicine school curriculums are based on some of these texts.
The five most common modalities of Chinese Medicine are Acupuncture & Moxibustion, Herbal Medicine & Food Therapy, Manual Bodywork (Tui Na), Tai Ji/Tai Chi, and Qi Gong (Ki Gong).
*Cosmology, Divination, and Feng Shui were the other branches of Chinese Medicine in the past.
Do they sound familiar to you?
How about Chinese Medicine theories? You probably have not heard of any of them before.
Yin Yang Theory and Five Phrases Theory. Say what!?
If I say Yin is femininity, darkness, the moon, and winter; Yang is masculinity, light, the sun, and summer.
Now that sounds more like common sense.
Chinese Medicine theories are simple and sophisticated, yet practical.
One of the three principles in Yin Yang Theory states that Yin and Yang are mutually convertible;
Yang converts to Yin, and Yin converts to Yang.
Example 1: day > night; sunrise > noon > sunset > midnight
Example 2: Acute Injury (hot and painful) can turn into chronic injury (dull and achy).
This is an example of Yang converting to Yin.
You see, the theory can be applied in nature, or a medical condition.
If one has a good grasp of these two theories and the five modalities, one can guide another to restore balance and resolve “dis-ease”.
Now, to answer the first question of this post, I can say that I am a Chinese Medicine Practitioner.
It doesn’t mean much, when one does not know what Chinese Medicine entails.
It is much more than two theories and five modalities.
The medicine is based on the laws of nature.
Therefore, I am a practitioner of nature; I practice medicine in accordance with nature, working with nature, and human nature.
Because human beings are nature.
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