Chronic Disease

Chronic disease are complicated in nature.  The mere fact that a disease or imbalance has been around long enough to become chronic often means there a tangle of sub clinical conditions to go along with it.  The way in which Chinese Medicine understands the body holistically can give us insights to see clearly what’s going on.

Many chronic conditions can be traced back to a significant event in one’s life after which you may feel you have never fully returned to health, for example contracting an acute illness such as glandular fever or experiencing a dramatic emotional upheaval. Traditionally this is known as a lingering pathogen, where the body continues to be affected by the energetic imprint of an illness or event.

You may not have had a “I’ve never been right since….” moment, rather you are just feeling the effects of a long-term busy lifestyle filled with late nights, inadequate nutrition and high stress days. The pattern of adrenal fatigue also fits into the category of chronic “dis-ease”.

There is much that can be done to improve how you are feeling emotionally and functioning both mentally and physically.

Chinese Medicine’s treatment of chronic disease is highly restorative, it nourishes the body and soul while allowing for the release of any debris that may impede health. We recognise the long-term effects that sub optimal health has on the mind and spirit and as such will always treat holistically to restore you back to full vitality.

Clinically we have found Chinese Medicine to be helpful in conditions such as:

• Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS)
• Fibromyalgia
• Auto-immune disease (for example rheumatoid arthritis, Hashimoto’s disease)
• Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS)
• Lingering viral infections (for example glandular fever and shingles)
• Malarial diseases and other parasitic infections
• General burn out from our crazy western lifestyle