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Eastern Modalities of Medicine

Diagnosis
Diagnostic methods in traditional Chinese medicine include four basic methods: inspection, auscultation and olfaction, inquiry and palpation. The case history, symptoms, and signs gained through those four diagnostic methods are analyzed and generalized to find the causes, nature, and interrelations of the disease, and to provide evidence for the further differentiation of syndromes. The four diagnostic methods are therefore indispensable and important steps in the differentiation and treatment of syndromes.

Acupuncture
Acupuncture:  is the insertion and removal of filiform needles to stimulate acupuncture points in specific areas of the body. Needles may be inserted, manipulated and retained for a period of time. Acupuncture treatment is based on individual patient needs and treatment may include a combination of procedures to enhance treatment effect.

Herbs
Herbs:  Chinese practitioners use herbs (the foundation of Western Medicine) in natural forms or sintetized by well recognized companies such as Evergreen in CA. The herbs are utilized for conditions that needs extra support, beside acupuncture.

Cupping and Guasha
Cupping: use of glass cups in areas of the body to move energy, expel wind condition and create balance

Guasha: specific technique usually for invasion of pathological factors utilized in the back of the body (usually)

Moxabustion
Moxabustion:is a  traditional Chinese medicine therapy using moxa, or  mugwort herb. Suppliers usually age the mugwort and grind it up to a fluff; practitioners burn the fluff or process it further into a stick that resembles a (non-smokable) cigar. They can use it indirectly, with acupuncture needles, or sometimes burn it on a patient's skin small cones or  stick moxa stimulating  points in the body to support the immune system in conditions like , HIV, HBV, HAV, MS, and in areas of the body where COLD is the cause of the problem.

Reiki
Reiki is a Japanese technique for stress reduction and relaxation that also promotes healing. It is administered by "laying on hands" and is based on the idea that an unseen "life force energy" flows through us and is what causes us to be alive. If one's "life force energy" is low, then we are more likely to get sick or feel stress, and if it is high, we are more capable of being happy and healthy.