Bo Ai (Sion)

Center for Traditional Chinese Medicine

How does Chinese medicine view illness, its prevention and treatment?

Chinese medicine considers man to be a part of nature, in harmony and at one with it. When human behavior infringes natural laws, we suffer the consequences. The same applies to the human body. If your lifestyle and way of working infringe the body's natural laws, illness will come and torment you.

Chinese medicine has numerous methods of treatment, such as phytotherapy, acupuncture and moxibustion, therapeutic massages and so on. Once the causes of illness have been determined, these methods serve to free and activate circulation in the meridians, organs and tissues, thus restoring their functions. As a result, the body is better able to assimilate nutritious foods, its energy levels increase and its ability to resist and overcome illness, as well as to regain health, improves. The function of all Chinese medicine treatment methods is to regulate and activate the body's ability to resist disease.

In the process of treating illness, Chinese medicine instructs the patient on how to be preventive, on the primacy of prevention over the treatment of illness, and on its easy, inexpensive and unrestrictive application. Acquiring a healthy lifestyle and taking preventive measures will help us to distance ourselves from illness and its suffering.