Baumann Karin (Winterthur)

Karin Baumann

Dipl. Naturopath

Dipl. TCM Therapist

Dipl. Craniosacral Therapist

Dipl. Hypnocoach

Trance Surgery

Cranial acupuncture according to Yamamoto, body acupuncture, ear acupuncture, moxa

Chinese and western herbal medicine

Chinese and western nutrition

life coach

vitality therapy cupping, massage, Tao Yoga

Qi Gong, spiral stabilization training, fascia training, spiral stabilization

Acupuncture Traditional Acupuncture originated in China about 5000 years ago. Traditional Acupuncture is a healing art and a science that teaches us how to understand the human being as a body-mind-soul, how to recognize the occurrence of health and disease, and how to approach the restoration of lost health in individual cases.

The essential difference between Western medicine and Eastern medicine is the basic Chinese concept of the life force, the Qi energy, which flows harmoniously and in balance within us. This harmony, this balance, is health. When this life force does not flow in the right way, there is disharmony and imbalance. That is illness.

We usually learn that we are sick through a symptom that functions like a distress signal. This signal tells us that something is wrong. We may feel this disorder as a migraine, a stomach ulcer, intermittent depression, arthritis, insomnia, or some other ailment.

From the Chinese perspective, these symptoms indicate a disturbance somewhere in the flow of qi energy. We might think that the symptom is the disturbance itself and so try to remove it - which, however, from the perspective of Traditional Acupuncture, would be no different than simply covering up a light that comes on in a car, even though it merely indicates a disturbance. One does not get rid of the problem by simply concealing the symptom.

In Traditional Acupuncture, a complete examination is performed using the diagnostic tools of Chinese medicine, for example, tongue diagnosis, pulse diagnosis, etc. to assess the state of Qi energy and determine the cause of the disease.

In our body, Qi flows along certain pathways, the meridians. The individual organs are directly or indirectly connected by the meridians. In addition, the meridians run on the surface of the body, so that an exchange of energy between the body and nature can take place.

On the meridians there are hundreds of points where the energy exchange is very intense. In Chinese medicine, one of the ways to achieve energetic balance is by acupuncture of these points.