Description: Anat Raz M.S., Licensed Acupuncturist serves Mount Kisco, Bedford, Katonah, Yorktown, Somers, Brewster, NY.
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Chinese Medicine is the oldest, continually practiced, medicine in the world. It is over 3000 years old and has proved to work effectively and safely over the millennia. Currently a quarter of the world population is using this form of medicine.
Chinese medicine aims to balance patterns of disharmony in the body. It works to strengthen and awaken the body's natural resources to heal itself. One of the most important foundations of Chinese medicine is the concept which assumes that a part can only be understood in its relation to the whole. The theory of Yin & Yang represents this concept. Yin & Yang portrays opposite but completing qualities. They are symbols which describe how things function in relation to each other and the world around us. Yin
The main function of acupuncture is to regulate the circulation of Qi (vital energy pronounced "chee") and blood along the network of channels sometimes called meridians. These channels connect the interior of the body with the exterior. Therefore, the basis of acupuncture technique is that needling points of the surface of the body will affect internal organs & deeper systems.