Traditional Chinese Medicine
Traditional Chinese Medicine
The Department of Traditional Chinese Medicine at Shanghai United Family Hospital is committed to helping patients achieve a high quality of health. The department’s holistic health assessments place particular emphasis on appropriate dietary therapy and disease-prevention methods.
Our doctors can treat and prevent a wide range of health problems, from common conditions such as colds, influenza, asthma, indigestion, and constipation to complex conditions such as hypertension, cardiovascular disease, early-stage dementia, early-stage cancer, depression, and insomnia. The Department of Traditional Chinese Medicine can also manage traumatic injuries, relieve pain, and accelerate the recovery process.
For obstetric patients, acupuncture treatment may also help with malpresentation, infertility, endometriosis, and other symptoms related to yin-yang imbalance. Our medical staff have received professional and specialized training and can provide services to patients in English and Chinese.
Traditional Chinese Medicine Services
Traditional Chinese medicine concepts are based on yin and yang, qi, the five elements, and the zang-fu organs, and include various treatment methods such as dietary therapy, acupuncture, herbal medicine, tuina, qigong, and tai chi. Traditional Chinese medicine holds that internal factors such as emotions, mood, stress, and worries in daily life, and external factors such as seasons, weather, and geographic location, all affect the body, while the human body needs to achieve balance in order to realize the goal of health maintenance.
Tongue diagnosis is one of the most commonly used diagnostic methods in traditional Chinese medicine. Since different parts of the tongue correspond to the kidneys, spleen (stomach), liver and gallbladder, heart (lungs), and other zang-fu organs, doctors can analyze your health by examining your tongue. The wood, fire, earth, metal, and water of the “five elements” also correspond to the five zang organs, respectively. Based on the theory of the mutual generation and overcoming of the five elements, the “TCM five-element health-preservation therapy” was developed, giving rise to different health-preservation guidelines for spring, summer, autumn, and winter.
As the seasons change, we need to adjust our daily routines, diet, and ways of exercising; respond appropriately to various emotional changes and adverse symptoms such as dizziness and insomnia; and maintain a calm and pleasant mood, so as to regulate and nourish the body and emotions and fulfill our long-held wish for health and longevity.