Traditional Chinese Medicine, or TCM, is becoming more familiar, and acceptable, to the Western Medicine culture of evidence-based and research-based treatment.
Integrative/Alternative Medicine: Understanding Medical Beliefs
Integrative Medicine/Complementary and Alternative Medicine offers doctors and patients the best of both worlds for optimum health.
Charles Darwin and The Galapagos Islands: Birthplace of Evolutionary Theory
The Galapagos Islands are the birthplace of Charles Darwin’s theory of natural selection. How do anthropologists study the ‘survival of the fittest?’
Aristolochic Acid – History and use in Chinese Herbal Medicines
Yin and Yang: Basic Concepts in Traditional Chinese Medicine
Traditional Chinese Medicine and Pain Relief: The TCM Approach
Xiao-Ke: “Wasting and Thirsting” Disease and The TCM Treatment of Diabetes
For thousands of years, practitioners of Traditional Chinese Medicine, or TCM, have recognized a disease which they call “wasting and thirsting” disease (xiao-ke, in Chinese). This condition corresponds to one of the subtypes of the disease known as diabetes in Western medicine. Subtypes of Xiao-Ke “Wasting and thirsting” disease is divided into three categories in TCM, […]
TCM: Treatment and Diagnostic Methods in Traditional Chinese Medicine
What distinguishes TCM, or Traditional Chinese Medicine, from other medical systems such as the Western medical establishment? Diagnosis in TCM is done by the careful measurement of the patient’s various pulses, observation of his or her general demeanor, observation of the tongue, and asking questions. This process is called “pattern recognition” or “pattern discrimination,” and […]