Category: Traditional Chinese Medicine

Traditional Chinese Medicine is one of the oldest continuously practised medical systems in the world. In the UK it’s most familiar through acupuncture, but Chinese herbal medicine — bespoke formulas built around the patient’s pattern of imbalance — is the bigger half of the tradition and the one our TCM practitioners spend most of their time on.The articles below are written by PAEAN’s UK-registered Chinese herbalists and acupuncturists. They cover the TCM framework (qi, yin/yang, the organ systems), how a TCM diagnosis differs from a Western one, the conditions Chinese herbal formulas are most often used for in the UK — gut, hormonal, fertility, chronic pain — and how TCM dovetails with conventional care when patients are seeing both.To talk to a TCM practitioner, see the booking page or take the 60-second quiz.