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The big resurgence in Eastern medicine over the preceding few years has focused on acupuncture and shiatsu, but these are just 2 of the disciplines related to Chinese medicine. It appears that there is a public reaction to modern medicine, in that chemicals (drugs) are overly prescribed, and there can be unwelcome consequences of the treatment. Eastern medicine and modern practices vary in various ways, but the most basic is the manner in which these two approaches view the human organism. The Eastern adherents, including those in India, China and Japan, operate on the concept of mind-body, which is to say that our human organism can’t be separated into mental, physical, spiritual and emotional sections, but must be thought of in it’s entirety, and treated accordingly. On this side of the world, the Western concept sees these facets of life as though they exist separately from the others. This split view of the human body can lead to damage in the long term.

Another large divergence between the two perspectives is that, even though this is gradually changing, Western medicine is mostly reactive while Eastern therapists focus on treatment before sickness. Loosely speaking, in the West we tend to go to the doctor when there is something wrong, and want rapid treatment to put us straight. In the East, it was the traditional role of a medical man to keep the body balanced and well, so that sickness didn’t occur. In ancient times, a doctor in China was paid for regular treatments, and the money was withheld if the patient became sick!

The major concept behind Chinese medicine concerns the life energy ‘chi’, which is the universal energy that passes through our bodies and everything thing else that exists in our universe. Equilibrium of this energy, or Yin-Yang, is crucial to our health, and when it becomes unbalanced, we get sick. All of the disciplines within the Chinese medicine concept are concerned with affecting this energy in assorted ways, including aromatherapy, homeopathy, reflexology, acupuncture and zen shiatsu, the latter 3 being very closely related.

Zen-shiatsu is developing well in most European countries, and variations in approach and application are springing up in France, such as the Shiatsu Toulouse branch. Reflexology could be named ‘shiatsu for the feet’, as it is a type of treatment applied with the fingers in the same manner as shiatsu. Acupuncture employs very fine needles to penetrate the skin at really precise places,which correspond to the channels of energy flow in the body, thereby regulating the flow. Shiatsu acts on exactly the same energy channels, or meridians, but employs pressure brought to bear by thumb, fingers, elbows, hands, feet and knees for re-distributing energy. The Shiatsu Toulouse style has a very gentle approach physically, but promotes deep reactions on the energetic level.