Understanding Chinese Medicine Diagnostics- For Patients

It’s your first ever meeting with your acupuncturist.
You’re sitting there wondering why your acupuncturist is going over your present and past medical history when you came in for a skin condition. Let me EXPLAIN.

In Asian medicine your body is viewed as a system that is all correlated from head to toe, inside and out.

We treat your body as a whole and more often than not you leave that first session FINALLY having an understanding of what is actually going on with YOUR BODY. You finally found someone that understands you and your physical and mental health issues.

It might to be weird to think that your IBS is related to your depression or to think your insomnia could be related to your back pain. But more often than not, your conditions fall into a common diagnostic pattern that your Chinese Medicine practitioner has seen before!

You can help your acupuncturist to get the best understanding of your body by reviewing the medical history and complaint questionnaire before your appointment. This way you can be prepared for our questions and have some time to think about the details before you arrive!