Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) is the name given to a range of medical practices that have developed over the course of thousands of years to treat all manner of internal and external disease. It is the oldest system of medicine in the world, and today it is the fastest growing.

Chinese Medicine was founded in the natural philosophy of China utilizing such theories as yin and yang and the five elements. It is a medicine firmly based in a world view that sees health and life springing from relationships between all things. It seeks not only to treat the symptom for which the patient complains, but to treat the fundamental imbalance that brought it about. 

Utilizing scientific methods, Chinese Medicine has been refined and has evolved through countless generations of doctors into the form we see today. The methods we use now are here only because they have worked and made people better over the course of millennia. The rich history of the union of science and philosophy has made TCM a dynamic art of medicine. TCM, at its best, cannot be grasped through textbooks, nor taught in a classroom. It cannot be applied generically. As every individual is unique, every treatment must be shaped and molded by the patient and their condition. 

As Frank Griffo has been taught by his teachers before him, he seeks to employ the dynamic methods of chinese medicine in order to restore the balance that brings us health.  Frank Griffo has learned that it is not the doctor who tells the patient what take. Through attentiveness and careful listening to the symptoms, the pulse and the tongue, it is the patient who tells Frank what he must do to make them better.

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Chinese Medicine has recently been going through close scrutiny through modern medical research.  Once conceived as an archaic folk remedy, chinese medicine and acupuncture are now accepted by hospitals, insurance companies and many doctors as a safe, non-invasive and effective means of treating a whole host of disorders.

You can find links to a selection of modern studies on the Research page.