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Work with your TCM doctor for better healing effects
Traditional Chinese Medicine needs cooperation between the
patient and the doctor. We do not treat you as a car. We need
our clients to tell us their exact feeling about their disease,
and taking our suggestion. We also believe that a trust feeling,
and a strong hope to recover with the help of the doctor is also
a strong healing power.
Many people now take vitamins, minerals, or other healthcare
products by themselves for months or years without any apparent
improvement feeling about their symptoms. If we ask them why
they continue to take something for so long time if they could
not find any good feeling or finding, subjectively or
objectively, the answer usually is, " I wish something good
happen", or "I have no other choice to improve my condition".
Now, you are trying traditional Chinese medicine, and we
recommend you stop taking any other vitamins, minerals, or other
healthcare products, especially if they are not recommended by
your conventional doctor. You are going to take Chinese herbs
and/or acupuncture to solve your problem. You do not need to
make the therapy complex, interfere with each other, or waste
you money and time on something you have stick to it for a long
time. If your TCM doctor thinks that you do need it, they will
tell you.
This is true, if the herb influences your sweat, bowel movement,
or urinate. We recommend you also not sit long time in front of
fire, or sleep in an electric mattress to warm your body, when
you have the cold. Your symptoms may become worse if you do not
pay attention to it.
We frequently found that some people want their TCM doctors to
focus on their most suffering, such as pain, while not want to
talk more about their other physical conditions.
Don't do it that way!
We should know that the diagnosis of a disease by a TCM doctor
is very different from a western medicine doctor. They are two
different medical systems needing different clinic information
to make their own diagnosis. What a diagnosis in the western
medicine may cover several TCM disease, and on the other hands,
TCM diagnosis may cover several disease defined by the Western
Medicine. For example, a gastritis defined in Western Medicine
may be Qi deficiency, blood stagnation, Liver congestion, or
phlegm accumulation, or food congestion in TCM. A condition of
Liver stagnation in TCM may refer to stomach pain, diarrhea,
emotional disturbance, poor sleeping, bitter taste in mouth, dry
throat, or disturbance in women period.... Though the clinic
picture is so scattered, the formula used in the TCM for the
treatment is simple. This is why a single TCM herbal formula may
correct many apparently not related clinic conditions.
To match the need of your TCM doctor for their diagnosis, you
simply answer his questions truly. Do not exaggerate or try to
hide your feelings in your body. Some times, the meaning of a
dry mouth could be different from feeling thirsty. Pain that
becomes worse in the afternoon could bear different meaning as
pain in the morning. Many other things as such like: feeling hot
versus feeling cold; with sweat versus no sweat; sweat in
the whole body versus only in the head; want to eat only before
each meal versus feel hungry all the time; feel hungry and eat
lots versus can not eat lot; poor sleep meaning difficult to
fall into sleep versus easy to wake up;......
For Western Medicine, the diagnosis largely depends on the
objective findings with the use of chemical analysis of blood,
urine, or other body fluids; the X-ray, the Can Scan; the MRI,
or DNA detection in recent year. For TCM, the doctor will see
your tongue, feel your pulse, and again, need to know your
subjective feelings as well. This is why many times a Western
Medicine doctor feels hard to treat a clinic condition without
clear chemical and/or physical abnormal findings in your body,
but the TCM can. To TCM doctor, if we have already found
something wrong physically (from X-ray or MRI or Can Scan), it
means too late. Any diseased condition will affect the function
of our body first, then the structure. A good doctor should
solve the disorder early before it affects the body structure.
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