holistic

February 25, 2020

Although its main methods of treatment are addressed to the physical body            (massage, acupuncture, dietetics, pharmacopoeia) and that            reasons for consultation are most often physical discomfort and somatizations (musculoskeletal pain, withdrawal, fatigue, depression,            respiratory, digestive, uro-genital disorders, etc.), Medicine            Traditional Chinese (TCM) does not envisage separation between plans            physical, emotional and spiritual. Nor can it conceive of the functioning            of the individual out of his social, geographic and even cosmological context …            We are far from a vision that compares the body to a sophisticated machine            made of separate, interchangeable and repairable parts. TCM            has always favored a global approach, it bases its diagnosis            and his treatment plan on a conception of life where any component            sees itself in a network of relationships and interdependencies. 

For example, Heaven and Earth, considered as the two forces            macrocosm major,            provide the microcosm            human both his original spirit and his material web (the body)            which, indivisible, allow it to exist. The organism, throughout its life,            receives from the Sky-Earth Air couple            and Food            necessary for its survival. Other aspects of the environment are            also determining for the human being, and are considered            as full-fledged elements of his physiology;            we can think of the climate, the day-night light cycle or seasonal variations            of temperature and humidity which influence the life cycles of            microorganisms, plants and animals. All of this has a major impact on            food chains and the ecosystems we depend on,            as well as on the development of pathogenic factors such as viruses            and bacteria, which TCM equates in its language to Perverse energies.

The chemical and dynamic components of Food, which TCM represents by the concept of Flavors, support            the activity of the Organs            and fabrics. Air assimilation            and Food constantly renews the Energies that maintain our            primary vitality and our body shape, allowing us to use,            to preserve and develop the gifts and capacities that            our parents passed on to us to design and that represent            the heritage of our lineage.

TCM explains that health and balance come from relationships            between three important aspects of our being: 

  • The Substances                that circulate in our body – constantly renewed.

  • The quality of the physical and mental characteristics received                from our parents.

  • The subtle levels that inhabit us: emotions and psychic functions.

All these constituents are interdependent:

  • The state of Substances and Organs influences our perceptions and our state                emotional (if you have a stomach ache, you can become more intolerant …).

  • The dynamism of the emotions affects the activity of the mind,                of consciousness and psyche, as well as on the possibility of developing                our spiritual dimension (if we live in perpetual insecurity,                self-realization is our last concern).

  • Mental activity, consciousness and spirituality influence                in turn our perceptions and emotions, just as they determine                our way of life (the way we breathe, eat and use resources                of Heaven and Earth).

  • This way of life in turn influences the renewal and maintenance of                substances                organs…

Thus, the circle is closed in a spiral which maintains our health            and develops our know-how, or on the contrary which drives us            towards illness and physical and mental suffering; and this set – organic            and inextricable – depends on our daily choices, constantly repeated.

TCM intervenes in small doses, case by case, step by step … by            breathing exercises and body movements a thousand times repeated            and corrected for Qi Gong, through daily meditation, diet            regular, firm and repetitive massage movements            Tui Na, acupuncture treatments that awaken the memory of a state            of balance lost or which gradually draw the map of a new order,            and decoctions or herbal teas, drunk and rejected with the same grimaces,            but the same patient determination. All of these efforts are gradually being used            to correct general condition, to stimulate functions            immune and to drive out pathogens like a slow fight            which is sometimes won in a dazzling (and easy) way, but more often            inch by inch with courage and persistence!

The curative approach to TCM is certainly not the easiest way            – she does not offer to take two pills and wait! His holistic vision            however allows the patient to be an active element in the heart            of the healing process. It offers the opportunity to appropriate            responsibility for one's own health, considering the multiples            dimensions of his being as much to assess his problem as            to choose from the countless possible healing avenues.