Pinto Joseph

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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. 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 involves balancing the basic needs of a human being:

food, breath, movement

To this end, the TCM therapist has a variety of methods at his or her disposal:

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

Moxibustion: The moxa is a cigar composed 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 the corresponding acupuncture points that can be used for acupuncture therapies.

Phytotherapy: All forces, all elements, are 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 acting gently, but constantly, on the transformation of energies.

Dietetics: "Let food be your medicine" Hippocrates already 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 balance.