Your first consultation of a TCM-doctor takes approximately 1 ½ hours.
During this time, we talk about your actual problems as well as about your circumstances of life. Towards the end, I take a look at your tongue and feel your pulse. All these information is transformed into a Chinese diagnosis. At this point, we think together and discuss what should be done first and what you yourself could do to make you fell better soon.
Part of this "small-step-strategy" is food, lifestyle-medicine, Chinese herbal remedies or acupuncture.
As you can see, we both play active roles in curing you with Chinese medicine. "No physician can witch you healthy". Your physician is like a policeman, whom you ask for the way. He will show you different possibilities and he might walk along with you for a while.