Hi!

I did not respond well to accupuncture, but was always curious to know more about the diagnosis of TCM and the lifestyle treatments.

I found this helpful site online where you can easily and anonymously answer the questions to get a diagnosis.


http://www.eastmountain.ca/assessment.html

Has anyone gone to an official TCM practitioner and what has their diagnosis been? Thank you!

Interesting. I took the survey. The analysis does not work well with Firefox/Vista. I found an overlap with western nutritional concepts just not for the same reasons. What TCM bases on energy, western medicine and nutrition bases on science and logic.

Hope it does not cause trouble with your computer like it did mine.

Thank you, postconcussion, for this link.

From the questionnaire, I got results for 4 areas,
The primary one being "Heart Yin Deficiency"
= stress reduction, body-mind-movement, e.g. tai chi, qi qong, yoga, a disciplined meditation practice, etc.
And of course, that is certainly in order for me, what I am on-course to be doing, now that I am ready & able to 'take action' in this month.

I have no experience with acupuncture since my accident.
It's not really practiced DownHere where I am living.

However I do have some extensive experience with acupuncture in my previous decades living in a leading-edge health & wellness city elsewhere.

In my 30s, I worked with/for a Rehabilitative Physical Medicine MD in Denver, who was among the first American MDs to go to China, and trained, became licensed as a traditional Chinese medicine practitioner.

I also lived in China, teaching in university for a year, and gladly received TCM, i.e. acupuncture, traditional medicinal herbs, food-as-medicine, all of it, for the 'ills' incurred in the adaptation to such different climate, culture-stress, etc --- in lieu of Western medicine, which was also offered at the university --- which I utilized very little.

This was an interesting questionnaire to take and the results I will be reading again and again, I'm sure. Thanks again for this!

Theta

P.S. I had no difficulties with the questionnaire & analysis using mac/safari.