Pinto Joseph (Brig)

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According to Chinese philosophy, illness occurs when the Yin and Yang energies of the human body are out of balance. Depending on a person's general state of health, this imbalance manifests itself in different ways. The same origin can therefore generate different symptoms, and conversely, the same symptomatology can have different origins.
For this reason, Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) does not limit itself to treating the manifestation of the disease, but seeks to determine its physical and energetic cause, in order to rebalance the whole.
To do this, Chinese medicine bases its diagnosis on the patient's physical and energetic state, taking into account his or her lifestyle habits. The aim of TCM is to restore the balance of Yin and Yang energies by acting on the direct cause of illness and harmonizing all the organs.
A good physical and energetic balance depends on balancing the basic needs of a human being:

food, breath, movement

TCM therapists use a variety of methods to achieve this:

Acupuncture: using extremely fine, flexible needles, the therapist acts on energy points, dispersing, tonifying or harmonizing forces.

Moxibustion: The moxa is a cigar made of specific medicinal herbs that burns slowly. With this stick, the therapist treats acupuncture points by inducing heat.

Auriculotherapy: The shell of the ear is shaped like an inverted foetus, and is made up of reflex zones reproducing the whole body. By analogy, they contain corresponding acupuncture points that can be used for acupuncture therapies.

Herbal medicine: All forces, all elements, are to be found in nature. Herbal therapy is the basis of any treatment that is intended to be effective in the long term, as it strengthens our immune system by providing the natural elements that are lacking in our diet and by acting gently, but constantly, on the transformation of energies.

Dietetics: "Let food be your medicine", as Hippocrates said. It is from the food we ingest that our organs must dilute good and bad energies. Food is therefore the basis of energy balance. The purer and richer our food is in essential elements, the better our organs can draw from it the energies essential to our equilibrium.