Sommer Stéphane (Martigny)

I'd like to help you understand and feel what makes Chinese medicine so special, by briefly presenting the worldview that underpins it, and how it is able to satisfy the legitimate desire, expressed more and more often, for a therapy that addresses the person rather than just the body.

As far as I'm concerned, I came to Chinese medicine in a roundabout way, through a curiosity for Chinese landscape painting; over the years, this curiosity has developed into an admiration for Chinese medicine, and I've made it my profession. I report on this itinerary in the Practitioner tab.

It is, however, through its effectiveness that Chinese medicine exerts most of its appeal. It is not my intention to draw up an exhaustive list of the pathologies for which it can be used. To do so would be to distort the original approach of Chinese medicine, which uses anamnesis to identify a syndrome, i.e. to interpret a list of symptoms to reveal the imbalance that gives rise to them, and then to act on this imbalance. Let's compare it to a tree: the branches are the symptoms, the roots the syndrome; while the practitioner of Chinese medicine will also treat the branches, his therapeutic effort will focus primarily on the roots.

Moreover, Chinese medicine aims to address all types of imbalance, and there are few pathologies on which it cannot intervene:

By completely restoring an imbalance; Reducing certain symptoms; relieving pain; Accompanying, in order to optimize, a Western medicine treatment, the side-effects of which can also be attenuated.