Medical Conferences

The Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) as a holistic medicine attempts to bring people back into balance. In a patient who feels ill, is from the perspective of Chinese medicine is no harmony between body, mind and soul.

Chinese doctors took the view that the so-called “Qi” is an energetic life force that flows throughout the human body. Qi used this so-called meridians that run through like a river runs with many Nebenärmchen and ramifications of the body. There are low-lying or shallow running acupuncture meridians. If there are blockages in the meridians, then people feel sick.

During the acupuncture to be set at specific meridian points needles into the body surface. The term acupuncture comes from the Latin language and is composed of the words “acus” and to needle “pungere for stinging. The original name of the Chinese medicine is “Zhen” and also stands for the pins and needles.

The special acupuncture needles may be used differently and deeply to compensate by selectively stimulating one or more meridian points energetic disturbances. The goal is to encourage individual organ systems, either or dampen.

The acupuncture meridians or energy channels that are assigned to different organ systems.
One speaks here of 12 symmetrically extending at both sides of the body meridians, which in turn 6 Yin and 6 Yang organs are allocated.

The Yin organs are storage organs and to them belong the lungs, the heart that Perikardsystem, the spleen with the pancreas, kidney and liver. The Yang organs are hollow organs. These include the stomach, bladder, gall bladder, colon and small intestine, and the Triple Burner.

It will thus cause a malfunction in these organ circles, it is trying to influence with acupuncture meridians, and therefore the positive energy flowing through the body. A regulation is to be achieved. The body will come back into balance. In simple terms this is called e.g. by the liver meridian, or from the stomach meridian.

The earliest description of the acupuncture meridians, dates back to around the year 200 BC. There are on the acupuncture meridians approximately 700 different acupuncture points.