Perspective of TCM on Treatment of Diseases

TCM is traditionally based on treating the disharmony patterns rather than the biomedical diagnosis as we have seen earlier. People who are practicing both the modern medicine and traditional acupuncture though have noted and commented on the relationship between the two.

A pattern of TCM disharmony may be described in a certain range in biomedical diagnosis. For example the TCM deficiency called the Spleen Qi deficiency can be referred to in the biomedical diagnosis as persistent fatigue, diarrhoea or uterine prolapse.

Similarly, a group of patients with a similar biomedical diagnosis may have varying patterns in TCM. The TCM aphorism states – “One disease, many patterns; one pattern, many diseases”.

This clearly shows that treatment of acupuncture is individualized. It is based more on intuitive impressions and definitely not on a set pattern or controlled scientific research.