Traditional Chinese Medicine in Adelaide

While health is perceived as harmonious interaction of these entities and the outside world, disease is interpreted as a disharmony in interaction. TCM diagnosis aims to trace symptoms to patterns of an underlying disharmony, by measuring the pulse, inspecting the tongue, skin, and eyes, and looking at the eating and sleeping habits of the person as well as many other things. Dr Liu offers a range of Traditional Chinese medicine to her patients in Adelaide, including

Cupping

There is reason to believe the practice dates from as early as 3000 B.C.; the earliest record of cupping is in the Ebers Papyrus, one of the oldest medical textbooks in the world.

Inside the cup is first heated, then the rim is applied to the skin forming an air-tight seal. As the air inside the cup cools it contracts forming a partial vacuum, enabling the cup to suck the skin, pulling in soft tissue, and drawing blood to that area. Alternately the suction is created by a hand-pump and blood is allowed to collect.

In traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) cupping is a method of applying acupressure by creating a vacuum on the patient's skin to dispel stagnation—stagnant blood and lymph, thereby improving qi flow—to help managing symptoms related to respiratory diseases such as the common cold, pneumonia and bronchitis. Cupping also is used on back, neck, shoulder and other musculoskeletal conditions, blood disorders (anaemia, haemophilia), rheumatic diseases (arthritic joint and muscular conditions), fertility and gynaecological disorders, skin problems (eczema, acne).

Chinese Herbal Medicine in Adelaide

Herbology is one of the most important modalities utilized in traditional Chinese medicine (TCM). Each herbal medicine prescription is a cocktail of many herbs tailored to the individual patient. The practitioner usually designs a remedy using one or two main ingredients that target the illness. Then the practitioner adds many other ingredients to adjust the formula to the patient's yin/yang conditions. Unlike western medications, the balance and interaction of all the ingredients are considered more important than the effect of individual ingredients. A key to success in TCM is to treat each patient as an individual.

Chinese herbology often incorporates ingredients from all parts of plants, such as the leaf, stem, flower, root.

Herbal medicine is commonly used in clinics in China to treat the symptoms of endometriosis. And recently clinical research in Australia has indicated that acupuncture may have a role in reducing associated pain. Studies have also been carried out on IVF patients with endometriosis.

(The efficacy and safety of acupuncture in women with primary dysmenorrhea

Woo, Hye Lin KMD et al, Med: 2018 Volume 97 Issue 23 – p e11007 Medicine)

Gua Sha

In classical Chinese practice, the gua sha technique is most commonly used to help managing symptoms such as:

• fever (the technique was used to treat cholera)
• fatigue caused by exposure to heat (often used to treat heat-stroke) or cold
• cough and dyspnea: bronchitis, asthma, emphysema
• muscle and tendon injuries, fibromyalgia
• sluggish circulation
• headache
• sunstrokes / heat syncope and nausea
• stiffness, pain, immobility
• digestive disorders
• urinary, gynecological disorders
• food poisoning

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