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As a model of healthcare, Traditional East Asian Medicine views and treats a person and their condition as a united whole. It acknowledges the relationship between the body, mind, emotions and external environments. The human body is considered a small universe with a set of complete and complex interconnected systems, which each have a role in ensuring the healthy dynamics of the body. TEAM aims to support the body in the prevention of disease and is also very effective at re-establishing the flow and balance of your body for recovery of health and well-being. It does this by using an elegant and effective diagnostic framework that ensures individualised diagnosis and treatment prescriptions.

Individualised Diagnosis is used prior to every treatment and involves gentle, unique methods to determine the pattern of disharmony affecting your body. These methods include: observation and palpation, feeling the pulse, inspecting the tongue and questioning. The TEAM model of medicine is concerned with relationships of function. Each internal organ has a corresponding meridian or channel which runs through specific tissues within the body, connecting the surface of the body with the internal. A trained acupuncturist is able to regulate this system using safe, effective and practical therapies such as: Acupuncture, Acupressure, Auricular therapy, Chinese Herbal medicine, Cupping, Guasha and Moxa therapy, Nutritional and Lifestyle advice. (more)