In recent times, there is a movement in the Western medical field toward "functional medicine." This is something that has been known and practiced in Chinese medicine for thousands of years. Western medicine is reaching to understand and emphasize patient care as opposed to disease care. Western doctors are now understanding that there is a dynamic balance of internal and external factors on health. Here at Acupuncture Garden, we understand that the same ideas that were expressed by the Yellow Emperor thousands of years ago are the same as the Western medical model of "functional medicine" for today. You, the patient, are a finely tuned interconnected web and how you function depends not only on the absence of disease, but also on the promotion of health and the quality of life.