Traditional Chinese medicine as anchor and drive force in the psychosomatic medicine

Psychosomatic is composed of the combination from the ancient Greek words psyche (`soul, psyche’) and soma (`body’) and refers to the fact that illness and health are to be understood in the relationship between psyche and body. That fact is an important part of the traditional baseline knowledge in Chinese medicine, which has its seeds in the source of Taoism classics and in the bock of changes. The essence of traditional Chinese medicine is not the technical detail, it is the symbolistic alchemy of holistic relationship to the cosmic, earth, and physical level