CHINESE MEDICINE

The most important thing to realize about Asian medicine is that it is not so much about treating disease per se, but rather to adjust the body toward health. I have often heard/seen it stated that we do not treat symptoms, but that is not exactly true - "symptoms and signs" are signals about the state/status of the person and there are symptoms of health as well as illness, to that extent we read the signals in order to understand them, interpret them, and with proper treatment/adjustment, hopefully change them for the better.