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Tel: 0870 7576 587 Fax: 0870 1344 762 Email: Office@herbalclinic.net Web:
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How Does A Chinese Doctor Being Trained? |
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As in Western
medicine, admission to an university of traditional Chinese medicine is
highly competitive in China. It takes five to six years to get an university
degree in traditional Chinese medicine. Continuing hospital training is also
rigorous. An house officer has to go through senior house officer and
registrar positions before is eligible for a consultant job. |
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What Are The Strength Of Traditional Chinese Medicine? |
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The strength of
traditional Chinese medicine comes from its humanistic and holistic approach
to health care. It integrates the body, mind and spirit into its diagnostic
and treatment systems. The unique ways of collecting information and
establishing a diagnosis, make a Chinese doctor could quickly come to a
diagnosis and is more independent of the assistance of modern diagnostic
techniques. The therapeutic tools used in traditional Chinese medicine are
purely natural. Thousands years history in practice implys that any single
technique or herb of traditional Chinese medicine has already been safely
used for hundreds thoudsands people. Traditional Chinese medicine can not
only cure your current diseases, but also has much more to offer in
preventive medicine than Western medicine. |
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How Does A
Chinese Doctor Make A Diagnosis? |
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Similar as
Western medical doctor, a Chinese doctor gathers diagnostic information using
four important techniques: looking, listening, asking and touching. The
doctor will pay particular attention to your tongue and wrist pulses as
different tongue status and pulse patterns will tell the doctor the state of
your internal organs. |
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Do I Need An Appointment? |
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An appointment may save both you and your doctor’s time. However, if
you come in to see a doctor without
an appointment, that is not a problem we will try our best to fit you in. |
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How Do I Receive Treatment? |
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Following the diagnosis, a course of treatment, either herbal therapy or acupuncture or both, will be recommended to suit your needs and conditions. |
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How Are the Herbs
Used in Chinese Herbal Therapy? |
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Chinese herbs can
be used in variety of ways. According to individual patient’s conditions or
preferences, they can be taken as “tea” of tailor-made herbal mixture, as
herbal tablets or capsules. The treatment can be internal or external. It may
take you times to prepare the “tea” of tailor-made herbal mixture, but it is
often rewarding as it has been specifically prescribed for your conditions. |
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What Are Acupuncture Needles Like? |
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Acupuncture
needles are very thin, solid and are made from stainless steel. The needles
vary in length to suit the area of the boby to be treated. Only sterile,
single-use, disposable needles are used in our clinics. |
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Dose Acupuncture
Hurt? |
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People experience
acupuncture needling differently. Most patients feel no pain at all or only
minimal discomfort as the needles penetrate the skin. The patient, however,
should have a slight sensation as the needle goes further and gets contacted
with the Qi, which is known as “deQi”. It is not unpleasant and the sensation
can either be a dull ache, a numbness, a tingling or a sensation of heat. In
some cases, the sensation travels along the corresponding meridian,
indicating the Qi is activated. |
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How to Prepare
Your Herbal Tea? |
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The herbal
treatment will normally start with few packs of mixed herbs, which are
prescribed specifically according to your conditions. Each pack is commonly
used twice in a 12-hour interval and prepared as follows. Step 1. Put one pack of herbs into a pot and boil
it with a pint of cold water. After
the water has reached
boiling point, keep simmering for 15-20 minutes. Step 2. Drain the herbal liquid (herbal drink)
into a mug and drink it while still
warm. Step 3. Repeat the last two steps with the herbs
left in the pot by adding two thirds of a pint of cold water later in the evening or
the following morning. Step 4. Take a new pack of herbs and repeat step
1-3 when the first pack has consumed. * When you have
finished all the packs, please feel free to come back and check your response
with our doctors. * The herbal drink may taste bitter, but it’s, in some case,
therapeutic and good for you. Try to put up with the taste (many people
actually like it). |
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