With its focus on health maintenance and disease prevention, demand for greater knowledge and use of Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) throughout the world continues to increase.

Patient Education

Although you may not have observable physical symptoms, this does not necessarily translate into the absence of dis-ease. In Chinese Medicine, inappropriate diet, lifestyle and emotional states represent key contributors to illness. In today's society, unhealthy diets, inappropriate lifestyles, chronic states of unhappiness, boredom, depression, stress, tension, and anxiety are often the forerunners of approaching physical disease.

Optimal health is not a static state, and it requires that you understand and give the appropriate care to both your physical and emotional wellness. Many of us have lifestyles, diets, habits or situations that we know are destructive, yet we may feel powerless to change them. How you address these issues, and the answers you choose, are often at the foundation of this iceberg. Ultimately, this determines whether the tip of the iceberg, representing your state of health, is one of sickness or health.

(Fletcher RH,Fairfield KM: Vitamins for chronic disease prevention in adults: clinical applications. JAMA. 2002 Jun 19; 287: 3127 - 3129)