Purpose of  Licensing Oriental Medicine

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	•	"to eliminate the fundamental causes of illness, not simply to remove symptoms"

	•	"to treat the whole person . . . a holistic approach to health"

	•	"effective provision of health care services"

	•	"to promote, maintain, and restore health"

Oriental Medicine is a comprehensive system of medical theory and practice developed over the past five millennia from Chinese origins. It is a holistic, and individualized science and art of health care with an established history of effective outcomes. The rationale of Oriental Medicine is to harmonize Yin and Yang, and to use other theoretical and practical constructs and patterns of differentiation, ancient and modern, to identify disharmony and to restore physiologic, structural, and functional health. Oriental Medicine utilizes appropriate steps of prophylaxis, diagnosis, intervention, and maintenance; however, it is best identified by its most common forms of therapy, which include acupuncture, herbal and dietary medicine, manual therapy (e.g. TuiNa, Shiatsu), exercise and breathing techniques (e.g. Taiji Quan and QiGong).

Oriental Medicine is those diagnostic and treatment methods that are derived from, or adjunctive to, healing arts historically practiced in traditional and modern Chinese medicine.