Oriental Medicine is a holistic system that sees disease and illness as the result of a disharmony in the body/mind/spirit.  Symptoms are like road maps that point a practitioner to the imbalance.  Unlike western medicine that seeks to get rid of the symptom, we dig deeper to the root cause of the disharmony and seek to re-balance.  Once the patient's system is back in balance, the symptom disappears. 

 

We do this by following the four steps of diagnostics: 

                       "Looking"  In Chinese Medicine I observe your face, skin, gait, eyes, and tongue, among other symptoms to gather clues to what ails you.

                       "Asking" - You and I will do a lot of discussing.  I'll take an extensive background in the first appointment and ask you questions that you perhaps have never been asked before.  It all helps me read the map of your symptoms.

                       "Hearing" - I'll listen to how you speak, breathe, even the sounds your abdomen makes can give me clues.

                       "Palpation" - this means that I'll feel your 12 Chinese pulses all located on your inner wrist, certain locations of your abdomen are storehouses of information, as well as any acu-point.  The skin holds so many clues!

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Once I have an idea of the different clues your bodies is giving me, I'll evaluate the "map" of symptoms and a treatment plan is developed.  

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