Principles of Traditional Chinese Medicine

Tree of Healing's diagnostic and treatment methods are based on Traditional Chinese Medicine, which has developed over a period of 2000 years.

Chinese medicine regards the body and soul as one. A condition of disharmony among the body's various organs, between the body and the soul, and between the body and soul and their surroundings, may generate various types of difficulties, including, for example, attention deficit disorders, hyperactivity, etc.
This imbalance is a product of numerous factors - both external and internal - which affect the human being as a whole. According to the principles of Chinese medicine, there are a number of variables that produce this imbalance:

External factors: wind, warmth, fire, humidity, dryness and cold.
Seven emotional factors: anger (affecting the liver), joy (affecting the heart), grief and melancholy (affecting the lungs), over-thinking (affecting the spleen), shock and fear (affecting the kidneys).
Sources of disease that originate outside the body: including factors such as climate and weather conditions (particularly, extreme conditions), and more.

In order to understand how the body, as a whole, can be brought to a balanced, harmonized state and its functions and medical condition improved, one must first diagnose the source of the problem causing the imbalance.

In an individual diagnosis process, which includes checking the pulse and the tongue, and collecting information by way of an interview, TCM practitioners identify the source of the disharmony, and the type of difficulty it causes, through the implementation of various TCM methods, which include, for example, the 8 principles:

Yin - Yang

Heat - Coldness

Internal - External

Deficiency - Excess

and the 5 elements, which represent both character traits and different body organs:

In addition to the above factors, body fluids, phlegm, blood and Qi (energy, the force of life) are also taken into account.

The need to scrutinize such a large variety of components affecting the energetic state of the individual, and consequently his/her state of health, explains the great complexity in diagnosing on the basis of Chinese medicine. Notwithstanding, a precise diagnosis is crucial, as it comprises the basis for a decision on how to bring the individual from a state of imbalance to a state of energetic balance between the body, the soul and their environment. This balance will strengthen the body and soul's ability to withstand harmful effects. The practical significance of the above is that in the case of different individuals suffering from the same malady, the medicinal plant formula they require in order to attain an energetic balance will be different, if the source of the malady is different.

It is important to note that according to the principles of Traditional Chinese Medicine, treatment will only be effective for a prolonged period of time and ensure genuine healing when the source of the problem is dealt with. Superficial treatment, which does not address the underlying cause of the problem and fails to produce an energetic balance of the body and soul is not only ineffective, but may even exacerbate the malady from which the patient suffers.

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