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Why Choose Oriental Medicine / Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM)?
Oriental Medicine / Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) is effective for a wide range of disorders and works preventatively as well. People choose to use Oriental Medicine / Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) for many reasons, such as:
- pain cessation or management
- improved healing of damaged tissue
- psycho-emotional issues of stress, anxiety, depression, and panic attacks
- addictions and detoxifying
- fibromyalgia and chronic fatigue
- headaches and migraines
- allergies and immune disorders
- gynecological disorders
- gastrointestinal dysfunction
- cardiopulmonary dysfunction
- alleviating discomfort during cancer treatments
- restoring neurological functions after strokes and accidents
- and many other chronic problems.
Oriental Medicine / Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) is used as an adjunct to other treatments or as stand-alone therapy. Many people use Oriental Medicine / Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) to help maintain harmony and balance for general health and well-being.
The World Health Organization (WHO)
WHO recognizes over 100 disorders and conditions effectively treated by Oriental Medicine / Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM). The long list includes acute and chronic pain; immune system disorders; neurological problems resulting from trauma or strokes; abdominal problems of the gastrointestinal, urinary, or reproductive systems. Oriental Medicine / TCM is beneficial in a variety of syndromes such as chronic fatigue, fibromyalgia, and psycho-social problems such as stress, anxiety, depression, and addiction. It commonly applied to sports injuries, side effects of cancer treatments, pre- and postoperative symptoms and to enhance the body's natural healing process. Although acupuncture and Oriental Medicine is renown for pain and nausea cessation and management, the scope of its effectiveness far exceeds these areas.
The National Institute of Health (NIH) Consensus Statement on Acupuncture (excerpt)
"Acupuncture as a therapeutic intervention is widely practiced in the United States. While there have been many studies of its potential usefulness, many of these studies provide equivocal results because of design, sample size, and other factors. The issue is further complicated by inherent difficulties in the use of appropriate controls, such as placebos and sham acupuncture groups. However, promising results have emerged, for example, showing efficacy of acupuncture in adult postoperative and chemotherapy nausea and vomiting and in postoperative dental pain. There are other situations such as addiction, stroke rehabilitation, headache, menstrual cramps, tennis elbow, fibromyalgia, myofascial pain, osteoarthritis, low back pain, carpal tunnel syndrome, and asthma, in which acupuncture may be useful as an adjunct treatment or an acceptable alternative or be included in a comprehensive management program. Further research is likely to uncover additional areas where acupuncture interventions will be useful.
"Increasingly, acupuncture is complementing conventional therapies. For example, doctors may combine acupuncture and drugs to control surgery-related pain in their patients. By providing both acupuncture and certain conventional anesthetic drugs, some doctors have found it possible to achieve a state of complete pain relief for some patients. They also have found that using acupuncture lowers the need for conventional painkilling drugs and thus reduces the risk of side effects for patients who take the drugs. Currently, one of the main reasons Americans seek acupuncture treatment is to relieve chronic pain, especially from conditions such as arthritis or lower back disorders."