Treatment

Any measure serving or designed to eliminate or alleviate sickness. Treatment in Chinese medicine is largely based on fundamental principles common to any treatment modality. Acumoxatherapy and medicinal therapy have their own specific methods (which also broadly apply to the related therapies listed below), while dietary therapy is an extension of medicinal therapy that takes account of the medicinal value of foodstuffs.

Elements of Treatment

• Principle of treatment (applying broadly to most modalities)
• Acumoxatherapy
  • See Acupoints Database
  • Acupoint selection and combination
  • Acupuncture
  • Moxibustion

    Related therapies

  • Acupressure (指压 zhǐ yā, aka shiatsu)
  • Cupping (拔火罐 bá huǒ guàn)
  • Ear acupuncture (耳针 ěr zhen)
  • Electroacupuncture (电针 diàn zhēn)
  • Guā-shā (刮痧)
  • Scalp acupuncture (头针 tóu zhen)
  • Tuī-ná (推拿)
• Medicinal therapy
• Dietary therapy