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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. When a person comes to us for help, usually
things have gotten so out of balance at that point that obviously the person's seeking
help. Creating imbalances within the body happens slowly and almost imperceptibly over
a long period of time. Quite often, things starting from childhood that don't really
manifest till maybe we're in our 40's or 50's or 60's. And there, again, what's important
to know is that, yes, we can go in there and so to speak, help reprogram the body's energy,
like we're reprogramming a computer almost, only just the human body is the most complex
computer that has ever been created. So, it's going to take some time to really change some
things, and it may take two or three visits. Occasionally, we have someone that's much
better after one visit. Some people may take 10 or 20 visits because, again, these are
imbalances that have developed over a lifetime. SARAH HAUER: Some of the variables or influences
that can affect the rate at which some people recover. Some people recover very quickly.
Some people take quite a long period of time. Some people have chronic problems that never
quite resolve. There are a lot of factors but two that we talked about quite often in
Chinese medicine are prenatal and postnatal qi. To talk about postnatal qi, this is the
qi that we can really affect through right living. We can increase the quality of our
qi by our self-care, by how we eat, how we rest, how we play in our activities, our daily
activities, and this is not having too much or little. This is really the moderate. The
moderation is the key here. The middle path is what we're talking about. So, this postnatal
qi is something that we have a lot of influence over, and this is something that we work on
in your treatment time by trying to help you identify which areas are areas that you can
work on, and part of it is nutrition. And Chinese nutrition, it's a very personal thing;
there isn't one nutrition plan that we have for each individual. We are going to look
at your constitution. We're going to look at whether you have more of a deficient constitution
or an excess constitution. And examples of this are if someone is deficient, then they
tend to be a little bit more pale, their voice tends to be a little more soft, they tend
to not have as much energy when they walk into the room. You can very easily see which
people tend to be a little more deficient. Excess people are very easy to identify as
well. They're very loud. They may have a very red face. They may be very robust or a little
overweight as well.