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SARAH HAUER: Hi. I'm Sarah Hauer. SIG HAUER: And I'm Sig Hauer, and we're professional
practitioners of traditional Chinese medicine. SARAH HAUER: We're here on behalf of Expert
Village. SIG HAUER: And welcome to our video. So, when we have you in our office and we're
talking about the different sign and symptoms that you are showing and what your main complaint
is, we're going to come up with a diagnosis from a traditional Chinese point of view.
And again, it's very, very different from Western medicine. We use totally different
terminology. We talk about things like qi, blood, blood stagnation, blood deficiency,
qi stagnation and qi deficiency, yin and yang. Is the yin deficient? Is the yang deficient?
For example, when someone has a cold that's what we referred to as a wind-cold invasion
or a wind-heat invasion, and that to us is considered as an external pathogenic influence.
Internal things from a Western definition could include things like digestive difficulties,
other respiratory difficulties, pain conditions are--we consider more an internal. And what
we're going to do in those treatments is trying to get your qi flowing the way it should.
Typically what happens when the qi isn't flowing properly is when this imbalances start. And
it's our job to determine what points we're going to need to help your qi flow properly.
And as we love to tell our patients, "You didn't get sick overnight and you're probably
not going to get well overnight." So, it is probably going to take a series of treatments
with most conditions.