Chinese Herbal Medicine is a system of assessing and diagnosing the underlying causes of illnesses that has been refined over thousands of years. Taking a holistic approach, Chinese herbal medicine focuses on the whole person and emphasises preventing illnesses by maintaining a physical, mental, and spiritual balance.
Rainbow Medicine prescribes herbal formula based on pulse diagnosis. Rainbow Medicine follows classical formula only in Han dynasty written by Zhang Zhong Jing (Master teacher of Chinese Medicine) dated back 200 AD. In ancient Chinese Medicine, Chinese Herbalist were considered as main stream medical doctor to treat majority of internal diseases such as Malaria, Chronic Cough, Blood clotting, digestive issues like bloating and diarrhoea, constipation, emotional issues and postpartum health issues.
Chinese Herbal Medicine can harmonise Yin and Yang: Cold and Hot, Dry and wet and restore the body balances into its natural healing power.
Chinese herbs like our food have five different flavours: sour, sweet, bitter, salty and pungent.
These five flavours go to different organ: Sour goes to liver, sweet goes to spleen, bitter goes to heart, slaty goes to kidney and pungent goes to lung.
Too much of the intake of each flavours damage the organ it is related to. for example, an 80 years old male patient with a complaint of frequent urination will not be recommended to take too much salty as the kidney is already deficient.
Food as a medicine plays an important part in our daily life.
The Lane Cove rooms are at 2 Austin Street, directly opposite the Lane Cove Library and a few metres from Longueville Road. If you are coming from the village it is a walk of two or three minutes, and the parking behind the library is the easiest option in the middle of the day.
Lane Cove sends a particular mix of problems through the door. There are the desk-and-commute necks and low backs from St Leonards and the city, the shoulders and elbows of a suburb that plays a lot of tennis, and the knees and Achilles tendons that come with living on a hillside — the stairs down to Tambourine Bay and the streets off Burns Bay Road are their own kind of training load. Lane Cove also has a lot of people in their thirties and forties carrying small children, which is its own demand on a back.
A first appointment is mostly questions and movement testing: where the pain is, what makes it worse, what it stops you doing, and how it has behaved over weeks rather than days. From there you should leave knowing what is proposed, roughly how long it is expected to take, and what would mean changing the plan.
Worth bringing: any imaging or specialist letters you already have, a list of medications, and the shoes you actually walk or train in. If the pain is new and severe, follows a significant fall, or comes with numbness, weakness, fever or any change in bladder or bowel control, see a doctor first — that is a medical assessment, not a treatment question.
The nearest alternative if Lane Cove does not suit you is the Freshwater side, about 14 kilometres away across the Spit.
