"Chinese Medicine is a complete medical system that has diagnosed, treated and prevented illness for over thirty centuries. While it can remedy ailments and alter states of mind, Chinese medicine can also enhance recuperative powers, immunity, and the capacity for pleasure, work and creativity."
--- excerpted from Between Heaven and Earth: A Guide to Chinese Medicine by H. Beinfield and E. Korngold

Oriental medicine is the oldest continuously practiced medical system in the world, and this abundance of knowledge has been transmitted and enriched from generation to generation via the Chinese written tradition which has basically remained unchanged for thousands of years.

Originating in China, TCM has been used in other parts of Asia, Europe, and South America for about 200 years. All told, acupuncture is used by nearly one-third of the world as a primary health care system and many more as an adjunctive therapy. In the U.S., acupuncture has been available since 1972 when an aide of President Nixon was successfully treated in China.

The fundamental principles of TCM are to treat the person as an integrated whole in body, mind and spirit, and to remedy the root cause of illness and disease--not only the symptoms. This is in contrast to allopathic medicine which treats disease only from a biochemical perspective. In fact, the way traditional Chinese medicine and acupuncture treat the various states of imbalance is completely set apart from modern conventional medicine (the term 'medicine' is used here simply to convey the cultural and historical relevance of acupuncture and TCM, and should not be construed as the practice of allopathic medicine).

Today, modern Chinese medicine represents a combination of ideas and methods from earlier times coupled with the findings from modern research methods – chemical analysis, pharmacological testing in laboratory, and clinical trials. In fact, the TCM health care system has been selected by the World Health Organization to meet the health care needs of people worldwide, in the 21st century and beyond. The reason for this distinction is its effectiveness, not only medically but also in terms of cost-control.

The foundation of Oriental medical analysis is a holistic perspective on health & illness, which treats relationships between a symptom and the person as a whole, and includes factors of environment, behavior, emotional state, stage of life, and season. The Chinese Medicine theory of nature, health and disease was set forth in the concepts of two essential forces – Yin and Yang, the three essences, Five Elements (which coordinate organs within categories of Fire, Earth, Metal, Water, and Wood), six climatic influences, seven emotional factors, and the concept of Qi, a vital life energy flowing throughout the body along meridian pathways.

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Mr. Singleton, Dipl.Ac., Dipl.C.H./Dipl.O.M. (pending) is a traditionally trained master practitioner of TCM and employs the five major therapeutic modalities in his balanced approach to healthcare. His approach has emerged from a thorough and unique understanding of the body developed from nearly 30 years of healing practices, allowing him to effectively integrate various therapies as needed by each patient.