Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) is the oldest, professional, continually practiced, literate medicine in the world. Its texts stretch back 2,500 yrs. Modern Western medicine and TCM are the two dominant medical systems in the world today. TCM is based on a history, philosophy, and sociology very different from that of the West, and has developed a unique understanding of how the body works It can be the main modality of treatment or can compliment other medicine.

Treatments can benefit a wide range of conditions, including problems that have not been helped by other therapies. In TCM disease is the disruption of the flow of the vital energy or qi circulating through various pathways in the body. The focus of treatment is on the whole person by evaluating the harmony or disharmony between the physical and emotional aspects. TCM can recognize disharmony before a disease occurs, making it also a preventative medicine.