Singapore TCM and Acupuncture

TCM Paediatric Massage Therapy (小儿推拿), also known as infantile or child therapeutic massage, is one of the oldest specialties within Chinese medicine and dates from the early first millennium. Since that time, there has been continuous development in the diagnosis and treatment of children's diseases. It influences a child’s energy flow by using gentle massage to activate the various points instead of needles.

Soaking the feet at night in a hot water bath is a respected method of health care among the Chinese. Traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) recommends daily foot baths that promote blood circulation and thus minimizing chances of a cold progressing beyond its initial stage. Foot bath therapy achieve a series of health care efficacies through the heating action, mechanical action and chemical action of water as well as healing effect of medical steam and medicine fumigation.

Tuina (Tui Na, 推拿) uses the Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) theory of the flow of Qi through the meridians as its basic therapeutic orientation. The name Tuina comes from “Tui” meaning “push” and “Na” meaning “Grasp”. Tuina works on the same basic theory as other TCM techniques : “Injury or disease causes blockages in the channels of the body.

Gua Sha(刮痧) is a healing technique used in Asia by practitioners of Traditional Chinese Medicine(TCM), in both the clinical setting and in homes. It is also one of the treatment techniques used in Asia TCM clinic in Singapore.