Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) is a system of health care, which originated in China more than 3,000 years ago and has been offered in the United States for more than 150 years. TCM is a comprehensive system for the assessment and treatment of acute and chronic disorders, as well as preventative health care and maintenance. The benefit of acupuncture treatment is now clearly recognized and well documented in western medical journals and in medical institutions across the United States.
Because of its relatively low cost and its noninvasive nature, acupuncture has become a highly popular form of complementary health care. In this gentle form of medicine, each treatment is designed uniquely to address imbalance as it is specifically experienced by each individual. Symptoms are viewed in relationship to the totality of a person in order to explore the underlying cause of an illness or disease.
