TRADITIONAL CHINESE MEDICINE (TCM) IN GENEVA
To regain good long-term health, Chinese medicine has a range of treatments that complement Western medicine.
Dr Yuxia Bian
Dr Phuong Dang
Dr Ning Li
Our acupuncturists have many years of experience in Switzerland and internationally in the practice of Traditional Chinese Medicine.
During each consultation, they take the time to understand your needs and design a personalized treatment, which may include acupuncture, Tui Na massage, cupping therapy, moxibustion, or Chinese herbal medicine.
All our therapists are ASCA and/or RME certified, which means your treatments may be reimbursed by complementary health insurance. Find out more.
WHAT IS ACUPUNCTURE ?
Acupuncture is a specialty of traditional Chinese medicine that has been practiced for over 2,500 years.
It restores the body's balance without chemicals or side effects, making it an ideal therapeutic treatment for relieving chronic or acute pain and illness. In Chinese medicine, no distinction is made between body and mind because they correspond to each other: the mind affects the body and vice versa.
Acupuncture is therefore indicated for both physical and psychological pain. Since 2003, the World Health Organization has recognized the effectiveness of acupuncture in the treatment of more than 100 pathologies. Read the article.
PATHOLOGIES TREATED BY ACUPUNCTURE
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FIRST CONSULTATION
During your first consultation, the therapist makes a diagnosis in Chinese medicine in order to adapt his therapeutic method to your profile and thus create a personalized treatment.
This allows him to direct you towards acupuncture, moxibustion, auriculotherapy, cupping therapy, a prescription for herbal medicine, Tuina massage, or even advice on how to adjust your life style.
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FIRST CONSULTATION
ACUPUNCTURE
Different points of the body are stimulated with very fine (sterile) needles along your meridians, thus to free the energy channels. There are around 1000 acupuncture points, each with a specific function and related to different organs.
MOXIBUSTION
Mixture of dried herbs that are burnt to warm the meridians or meridian points. This technique is used, for example, to warm the uterus to treat certain types of infertility.
SUCTION CUPS
This vacuum sucking technique gently pulls the muscles and fascia upwards. By attracting toxins to the skin's surface, the immune system is getting better and greatly improved. Cupping therapy is particularly suitable for treating sore muscles and back pain. It also improves lymphatic circulation.
TUINA
Tui Na massage requires precise Chinese diagnosis for optimal treatment. We work with different massage techniques specific to tuina (pressure, kneading, friction…) to release physical and energetic blockages in the body, correct tendino-muscular and musculo-articular disorders.
It can also help fight, among other things, insomnia, constipation, headaches and migraines as well as tensions related to stress. It can be an alternative or complementary to acupuncture.
PEDIATRIC TUINA
One of the little-known branches of Chinese medicine is the Xiao Er Tui Na or pediatric tuina. It is a specific massage that can treat small children (0 to 10 years old) instead of using acupuncture.
Based on the principles of Chinese medicine, the therapist makes a diagnosis to determine the cause of the problem and treat it at its root. Soft and simple, the pediatric tuina does not involve any manipulation.
Points or areas are massaged using specific techniques. These massages aim to strengthen the weakened ground or the system in imbalance. Complementary to Western medicine which treats Acute (asthma attack, constipation), pediatric tuina also treats the root. As the sessions progress, the problem is less and less frequent and less and less severe.
The child is less and less dependent on medication until it is no longer so: asthma, constipation, diarrhea, stomach ache, headaches, convulsions, pyretic syndrome, cough, rhinitis ...
It is also a solution for problems such as bedwetting, crying at night, anxiety, hyperactivity, listlessness, stunted growth, or when the child shakes his head to fall asleep. Finally, any problem arises from an imbalance and necessarily has a solution.
Course of a session
Depending on the problem encountered, I use the appropriate massage. Soft and simple, it does not involve any manipulation. The parent is invited to participate and take notes so that they can continue the care at home every 1 or 2 days until recovery. Then 1 to 2 follow-up sessions may be necessary to readjust the massage according to the progress.
Asthma example
The xiao er tui na massage aims to strengthen the weakened ground or the system in imbalance (different from the respiratory physiotherapy which makes up the mucus mechanically). As the sessions progress, the seizures are less and less frequent and less and less severe.
Patrick 9 months: in the emergency room every week. Notorious effects after 10 days, complete disappearance after 1.5 months.
Arthur 6 years old: chronic asthma for 4 years. Complete disappearance of symptoms after 2 weeks.
CHINESE PHARMACOPOEIA
The Chinese pharmacopoeia is one of the 5 branches of traditional Chinese medicine, it includes mainly plant but also animal, mineral and fungal substances. There are over 8,000 ingredients listed, of which 800 are in common use, and some are banned these days.
Used for centuries in China and it is the preferred approach for many acute and chronic conditions. Depending on your pathology and the resulting imbalance, the herbalist will prescribe a mixture of ingredients from the Chinese pharmacopoeia adapted to your terrain and your pathology.
More specifically, pharmacopoeia will be used to strengthen acupuncture treatment for the elderly, long-term sick people where energy is deficient.
Epidemic or contagious diseases, which is topical with covid, can be treated with pharmacopoeia. This is taken as a decoction of whole or ground plants, concentrated powder or capsules. You can also make external preparations that can be made into a poultice. Ex: wart, ulceration in diabetes...
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