LISHUITANG TCM  CLINIC

CHALLENGING THE INCURABLES

Congratulations. Finally, you are at the right place to get your body back in balance. With you, I shall prove the power of humble herbs. Before that, I wish you get some basic information about Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM). I will try to address it briefly. 

However, BY LAW, YES, ONLY BY LAW, according to the FDA regulations,we can't say the Chinese medicine can cure or treat any diseases, we, the TCM practitioners, have observed over thousands of years in our clinics just the opposite though. TCM master said there is no illness that can't be cured. When you say it can't be cured only becuase you don't know how.

挑战不治之症

歡迎您來到麗水堂，一個可以幫助您恢復健康的中醫診所。跟您一道，我會證明中医的力量。在此之前，下面的一些關於中医的基本知識也許對您有用。

请注意，依法，根据美国食品和药物管理局的相关法规，我们不可以说中医能够治疗、治愈任何疾病，尽管中医人在几千年的实践中，看到是完全相反的事实。中医大师说过，言不可治者 未得其术也。

• Why does Chinese Medicine work? 
• This is a big topic. The simplified explanation is the Law of Chinese Medicine is the Law of Nature. According to CM (Chinese Medicine), in short, when you are sick, you lose the internal balance of Yin and Yang, that failed to keep you healthy. CM, through acupuncture, herbal therapy and many other methods,  help your body back to balance. As to how to identify Yin and Yang in your illness and how to bring them back to balance, it's a big challenge, probably needs life-long efforts only to get closer to the truth. Because the nature is a cycle maintained by constructive and destructive between organisms and that is the way TCM employs to cure illness, that is why our ancestors said there is no incurable illness, only symptoms that you don't know why.
  

• Acupuncture or herbs

Generally speaking, acupuncture can open the blocked or inactive channels on your body, thus improve the internal nutrion supply while herbs can utilize external nutrition to nourish your body. Chemicals are good at killing aliens to your body, like bacteria and viruses. Therefore, if you feel ill, forgetting the names of the illness, suitable acupuncture and herbal therapies can help nourish the insufficiency and expel the excess.

• One herb or herbal formula

CM believes any herb contains a special character in term of its specialty. We call it Qi. Qi is a biased but strong character that can work on you. For instance, if you are insufficient in Qi, Ginseng can help you. If you have more excess to heat then the cold, certain herbs with cooling nature can eliminate it. In both cases, your body will be back to normal balance. However one or two herbs sometimes are not enough for your problem, we then use a formula which can act on more targets.

• How about herbal toxicity?

CM has different opinion on so called herbal toxicity. We believe any herb might be of toxicity, even water. Four cups of water may be necessary keeping your body health. How about four pails of water a day? You will get devastated. We call it water intoxication. Is the nature of water changed? No! The way it is used changed, only in a wrong way. Oxygen toxicity is about the same case. Many years ago because of the misuse of some herbs, some people in Europe suffered from so called herbal renal toxicity. It turned out most of the complaints used the pills for too long time without supervision under CM doctor. Is it fair to say drinking water or oxygen is poisonous?

The most important is TCM believes to some herbals which include minerals, its toxicity is its very property, which we employ to kill bacteria or viruses. Over 2000 years ago, TCM used Arsenic to cure Leukemia and the effectiveness is assured. We called it a tit-for-tat treatment. Our ancestors realized the conquering capability among existing species in nature. Nowadays the western medicine doctors begin to do the same thing. As a consumer, one is supposed to have some basic knowledge of the commodity you use, like electric devices. The principle applies to the use of herbs too.

• When is the time for you to see a CM doctor?

When you have a car accident and suffering fracture and heavy bleeding, you are not advised to see a CM doctor. But when you suffer chronicle diseases, it’s high time you go to a CM clinic. The only thing you have to do is to check carefully whether the CM doctor has qualified experience. Remember the danger of misuse of herbs? That’s to say even you go to a CM clinic, if it’s a wrong one, you probably will not get symptom relief.

 Could a CM doctor a multi- illness healer? Is it a know-it-all brag?

If a CM doctor say he or she can improve not only your Cataract, he can also improve your hearing problems, back pains, nodules in breasts, hemorrhoid, and loose stools, kidney or heart failure, you name it. Is it a brag?  To me that couldn’t be more normal. Why? That is Holistic treatment all about. Because from the very beginning, CM focus not only on your diseases, but on your symptoms which we think give us important information of your internal organs and the connections among them that can guide a qualified CM doctor to understand your problem in a holistic way. Our TCM masters saw the relations between human organs, including their reflection on the skin. That is why acupuncture works. Inserting a needle on the points on your skin that is related to internal certain organs. Believe or not, herbs can do much more.

     為什麽中醫有效

这是一个十分复杂的议题。最简单的解释就是因为中医的法则就是自然的法则。根據中醫理論，簡而言之，一旦你的內裏的陰陽失去平衡，你就病了。中醫通過針灸、中藥及其他方法，幫助你的體內的陰陽恢復平衡。但陰陽平衡的概念多有誤會，平衡是指和諧狀態，不是各占50%。因此內徑素問說：陰平陽秘，精神乃治；陰陽離決，精氣乃絕。至于诊断中，如何辨认阴阳和如何治疗，恐怕是一生也难以穷极的奥秘。因为自然界是万物相互克生的关系，中医就是利用它来治疗疾病。 所以，中医先人说：没有不治之症，只有不识之证。



    針灸還是中藥

總的來說，針灸可以幫助打通堵塞的或者靜息的經絡，改善自身的營養供給，而中藥可以用外來營養濡養身體。化學藥物只能殺死身體外來異物，比如細菌和病毒。但不能生成新的身體所需之氣血。因此一旦有病，不管什麽具體病名，適當的针灸和中藥處方可以幫助你的身體補充不足或祛除多余。



    單味藥還是多味藥

中醫認為任何中藥都具有偏性。我們稱之為氣。氣有偏性可以作用於你的身體。比如，你氣不足，人參可以幫助你。如果你 有實熱，具有寒性的藥物可以祛除。以上兩種方法都是幫助你的身體回復平衡。但有時一兩種藥物可能不能解決你的問題。多味中藥的方劑可以作用於較多的靶點， 並且比較安全。



    關於中藥的毒性

中醫對於中藥的毒性有自己的認識。首先，任何中藥都可能有毒，包括飲用水。一天四杯水可能是你保持健康的必須，但一天 四桶水呢？你就被毀了。我們稱之為水中毒。是水的性質發生變化了嗎？沒有！是水的飲用發生了錯誤的變化。氧氣的使用也是同理。能說明水和氧氣有毒嗎？許多 年前，在歐洲，許多人服了減肥中藥導致腎毒性疾病。後來查明，這些消費者都是自行長期服用某種中藥，而沒有在中醫正確地指導下造成的。

最重 要的是中醫認為，某些藥（包括石類藥）的毒性正是它們 藥性。所謂老祖宗說的“以毒攻毒”。兩千年前，中醫用砒霜治療虛勞，即今天的白血病，療效確定。現今，西醫也開始做同樣的治療。作為消費者，人們對使用的 商品，比如電器，要有適當的基礎知識，以策安全。這對使用中藥同樣適用。



    什麽病該看中醫

如果發生車禍，造成骨折和大出血，當然不會建議你去中醫診所。但如果你長期受慢性病困擾，就該去在看中醫。你要做的只是認真考察你所求助的中醫是否有相應的經驗。記得上面濫用中藥的例子嗎？也就是說，即使去看中醫，如果進錯了門，你的癥狀也未必能得到改善。



     一個中醫從頭到腳都能治嗎

如果一個中醫說他或她不僅能改善你的婦科疾病，還能改善白內障、聽力下降甚至耳聾、腰痛、乳房結節、痔 瘡、大便糖稀、心衰、腎衰、等多種癥狀，他是在吹牛嗎？在我看來，這簡直再正常不過了。這正是所謂整體療法的優勢所在。因為從一開始，中醫就不僅註重病 名，更註重它所反映出的癥狀，這些癥狀可以告訴我們內裏臟器及其他們之間聯系的信息，一個有經驗的中醫可以據此全面了解你的病情。中醫從這些聯系中了解病 情，包括他們在皮膚上的反應。這就是針灸的道理。在特定穴位針刺，可以聯絡內裏的臟腑，起到改善癥狀的作用。而中藥所能做的就更多了。