Cathay Natural, LLC

A Holistic View of Human Health and Illness

 In traditional Chinese medicine (TCM), human body is viewed as a holistic system, which is comprised of functionally specified organs and systems, controlled by constantly flowing of energy, or Qi (pronounced "chee"). The functional properties of each organ and system as well as the whole body can be classified into two categories: Yin and Yang. Balance of Yin-Yang is essential for performing proper functions by an organ or a system, and the Yin-Yang balance of a whole body (between different organs and systems) determines the health status of an individual. Imbalance of Yin-Yang in an organ, a system or the whole body determines the patterns of Qi flowing through a specific region, and therefore determines the specificity of an illness.

TCM uses a number of different approaches, such as Chinese herbs, acupuncture, moxibustion, cupping, acupressure, Tui-Na (oriental massage) and Gua-Sha, etc. to strengthen and/or adjust the flow of Qi in an unhealthy or diseased body back to the way it supposes to be. Therefore, by re-balancing Yin-Yang, it maximally reverses dysfunction and regains health.

Your Health – Our Mission

 Human body is given as a complete and automatic bio-complex that possesses the nature not only to automatically balance each other internally between different organs and systems, but also integrate as a whole to externally sense, defense or properly reflect to environment.  Western medical sciences are excellent in experimentally studying each tiny part of the human body in separate but are poor in understanding how the body function as a whole in physiological and pathological conditions. In contrast, TCM is developed on the basis of observation, analysis and summary of trillions of different cases of direct medical trials (like modern human study) over several thousand years. It is an experiential science that views human body as a whole with constantly flowing Qi (energy) in a defaulted way and considers that all illness is the result of an imbalance of energy and/or dysregulated energy flows. Using a variety of treatment methods, TCM emphasizes to stimulate and enhance the intrinsic self-balancing mechanisms to first achieve internal health and become strong to defense and fight external insults automatically. Therefore, both Western medicine and TCM contribute to maintaining human health but in different aspects with different focuses. TCM, in particular, has its unique advantage in treating diseases with internal causes.

If you are sick or suffering from an illness that Western Medicine has failed to provide you effective treatments, it is the mission of our Clinic to alleviate your suffering, not only simply relieve symptoms, but also maximally correct the internal causes of the illness.

Even if you are not “ill” or do not have a “disease” in the sense of Western Medicine (for example, you may simply feel unwell or less healthy than you used to be), our clinic is more than happy to help you to re-balance your Yin-Yang and strengthen your energy (Qi) so as to improve your health and prevent a disease from happening.

We wish to work with you and your Western medicine doctors together to provide you a holistic health service, to make a better, healthier world, and to have people make informed decisions about their health.  To this means, we promote a complete and open policy of freedom of choice for health care, not only to choose acupuncture or TCM, but whatever care is best suited for each individual problem.