Traditional Chinese medicine has a "macro" or holistic view of disease. For example, one modern interpretation is that well-balanced human bodies can resist most everyday bacteria and viruses, which are ubiquitous and quickly changing. Infection, while having a proximal cause of a microorganism, would have an underlying cause of an imbalance of some kind. The traditional treatment would target the imbalance, not the infectious organism.There is a popular saying in China as follows: Chinese medicine treats humans while western medicine treats diseases.

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A practitioner might give very different herbal prescriptions to patients affected by the same type of infection, because the different symptoms reported by the patients would indicate a different type of imbalance. A traditional  session might comprise of one or more of the following.

  1. Chinese herbal medicine(中藥)
  2. Acupuncture and Moxibustion (針灸)
  3. Die-da or Tieh Ta (跌打)
  4. Chinese food therapy (食療)
  5. Tui na (推拿) - massage therapy
  6. Qigong (氣功) and related breathing and meditation exercise
  7. Physical exercise such as T'ai Chi Ch'uan (太極拳) and other Chinese martial arts
  8. Mental health therapy such as Feng shui (風水)  
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