The traditional Chinese medicine distinguishes five cosmic energies. Wind, warmth, humidity, dryness, and cold. These Energies are assigned to the seasons spring, high summer, late summer, autumn, and winter as well as to the five elements wood, fire, earth, metal and water.
Acupressure and Meridian massage are an integral component of traditional Chinese medicine. The goal is the reconstitution of the bodies energy flow through meridian massage respectively through activation of certain energy points.
Acupuncture probably is the best known of all therapies of the traditional Chinese medicine. In needle acupuncture, needles of steel are inserted at certain well-defined points. In the past golden and silver needles have been used.
The basics of traditional Chinese medicine were already written down 200 years B.C.. In the nineteenth century acupuncture nearly vanishing in China. Since 1950 the acupuncture was increasingly practiced again and was even develop further.
Since the 1970s the scientific interest on acupuncture had risen sharply, as it offered many advantages to an exclusive western medicament therapy for many sicknesses.
