TCM (Traditional Chinese Medicine) is an ancient healing system dating back thousands of years. A truly holistic system that sees the body-mind processes as an integrated whole. TCM views the environment, a person's mental-emotional state, diet, and lifestyle as equally important factors in a person's well being, and, when balanced, lead to harmony.   

All organs and vital functions are seen as one constant continuum, influencing, controlling, and restraining one another. The same way that water feeds and nourishes the wood in trees to survive and flourish,  the kidneys nourish the liver, and so on. While western allopathic medicine sees the body and mind as separate entities, treats specific diseases, and searches for certain micro-organisms to be treated with strong drugs, TCM uses natural approaches to seek and achieve harmony, never separating the person, the mind, the spirit, and the environment. TCM treats the person, not the disease. 

With the health care crisis, TCM can offer a very sensible approach to dealing with health care concerns with its low cost and highly effective treatments. The focus of TCM is on prevention. A TCM assessment can detect subtle changes in the body's homeostatic balance before it reaches the disease stage and before Western medical tests can detect any abnormalities.

Choosing TCM as a career path is more than just a commitment to studying its approach. It is a way of seeing the world and a practice in wise lifestyle changes, always seeking to restore balance and harmony with one's own self and the environment, and preventing disease. TCM should be studied and practiced with the intent of helping people heal their suffering, and we believe that practicing TCM with compassion and healing intent will always bring stability in all areas of a person's life.

 "Heaven was created by an accumulation of Yang; the Earth was created by accumulation of Yin. Water and Fire are the symbols of Yin and Yang; Yin and Yang are the source of power and the beginning of everything in creation. Yang ascends to Heaven; Yin descends to Earth. Hence the universe represents motion and rest, controlled by the wisdom of nature. Nature grants the power to beget and to grow, to harvest and to store, to finish and to begin anew."

-Ilza Veith, Nei Ching