Our bodies are constantly giving us feedback on the root cause of illness and the state of health and vitality of all our inner systems. When one of the body’s ten major systems(1) is out of balance, we receive feedback on the root cause of illness in the form of a set of symptoms.
Many energy medicine disciplines see illness as a disruption, an imbalance in or a blockage of the body’s natural energetic flow. They believe and have proven that restoring our internal energetic balance is key to healing the root cause of illness.
Root cause of illness or imbalance is the focus of a traditional Chinese medicine treatment.
While traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) examines the symptoms feedback being provided, it very much focuses on the quality of the patient’s vital energy moving along pathways called acupuncture meridians. It also focuses on the function of the system and how to improve it.
TCM might prescribe herbs and other natural ingredients that have balancing energy properties. Treating the root cause of illness may demand changing a pattern or diet.
TCM often offers treatment at the level of skin where energy flow can be accessed, in particular, when acupuncture is involved. The relatively painless practice of placing small needles into strategically prescribed points on the skin helps balance vital energy flow and put healing into motion.
An imbalance often shows up as a number of symptoms simultaneously. The root cause of illness showing up as surface symptoms is systemic. This means more than one organ or component of the system is affected.
Traditional Chinese medicine understands the symbiotic relationship of all organs with each other, perhaps more than any other medical discipline. Armed with this very holistic and comprehensive understanding, it approaches the root cause of illness usually with a very deliberate multi-pronged approach involving every aspect of the cause.
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This example points to how TCM addresses the root cause of illness.
For example, traditional Chinese medicine understands gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD) as a condition involving the pivot mechanism of the digestive system. This mechanism involves stomach, intestines, liver and spleen.
TCM acknowledges the symptoms of heartburn, reflux, bloating, gas and more. But TCM always goes straight to the cause of the condition in order to achieve not just relief but healing for the patient.
In the case of GERD, we can usually trace its causes to the pivot mechanism’s organs. By addressing what causes the root cause of illness in digestive imbalance, symptom alleviation, relief and even a complete non-invasive turnaround can occur.
Even esthetic skin conditions result from either an internal balance or imbalance.
The five elements of TCM classify all possible skin conditions into five groups. Your skin condition as well as your body shape can also point to an energetic lack or excess proceeding from any of the five elemental energies.
Skin manifestations often indicate it’s important to start looking for the root cause of that condition. They’re telling you that certain energies aren’t balanced.
Sometimes conditions stubbornly reoccur after symptoms were first temporarily diminished. This points to a chronic systemic energetic imbalance.
Wellness is a sustained state of well-being—feeling good—consciously experienced. It demonstrates an absence of symptoms of physical, emotional, and mental disease. All of these contribute to a state of peace and contentment.
True wellness can be achieved after experiencing a sickness or a chronic condition only when we get to the root cause of illness having pinpointed them through the lens of symptoms. They provide valuable feedback about our state of health and balance and then utilize that feedback constructively by treating the cause.
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Endnotes:
(1) The ten major systems include the skeletal, muscular, nervous, endocrine, cardiovascular, lymphatic, respiratory, digestive, urinary, and the reproductive system.
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