Chinese Medicine

Traditional Chinese medicine is a broad range of medicine practices sharing common concepts which are based on the experience passing more than 5，000 years，including various forms of herbal medicine，acupuncture，massage（Tui na），exercise（qigong），and dietary therapy.

The doctrines of Chinese medicine are rooted in books such as the Yellow Emperor’s Inner Canon and the Treatise on Cold Damage，as well as in cosmological notions like yin-yang and the five phases.Starting in the 1950，these precepts were modernized in China so as to integrate many anatomical and pathological notions with modern scientific medicine.Nonetheless，some of its methods，including the model of the body，or concept of disease，are not supported by modern evidence-based medicine.

TCM’s view of the body places little emphasis on anatomical structures，but is mainly concerned with the functional entities（which regulate digestion，breathing etc.）.While health is perceived as harmonious interaction of these entities anc the outside world，disease is interpreted as a disharmony in interaction.TCM diagnosis includes in tracing symptoms to patterns of an underlying disharmony，by measuring the pulse，inspecting the tongue，skin，eyes and by looking at the eating and sleeping habits of the patient as well as many other things.

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