Chinese Medicine Traditional medicine of China has a long historical and cultural background dating back about 2500 years. The ancient Chinese people were able to reach a level of social stability that included the ability to treat disease of emotional, physical, and spiritual origins. Although a belief in spirits as the cause of disease has remained in China even to the present day, the view that the body obeyed a natural order struck a chord in …showed first 75 words of 1360 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1360 total…influences that are observed with just the senses. Its sophistication lies in its observation of correspondences between whole phenomena, and its organization of these observations through the holistic systems of yin-yang and five phases.(23) In view of the somewhat barbaric treatments in western medicine - cancer therapy, for example - many people in western society are becoming interested in Chinese medicine as an alternative form of treatment for certain ailments. This is an encouraging trend.