Summary

• The guiding TCM treatment principle is to facilitate harmony between yin and yang in the easiest and least invasive way possible without creating further disharmony. TCM practitioners seek to remove what is excessive and to replenish what is deficient.
• The focus is always on the patient, not the disease, and the treatment strategy must take into account not only the patient's condition, diet and lifestyle, but also the patient's family and community, as well as the environment in which the patient lives.
• Some of the TCM treatment modalities most commonly used in the United States today include: acupuncture; moxibustion; dermal friction (gua sha); cupping; therapeutic massage (tui na); dietary therapies; herbal therapies; and Qi gong.

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