Western medicine and Chinese medicine offer two distinct attempts at describing the human condition. Both have strengths, and both have their limitations. The first step in joining the two is not to try to understand one another, but to admit the limitations of each so that the door will be opened to respect and trust the strengths of both. Many health problems today are the consequence of the modern lifestyle, and so a gap has developed between high-tech medicine and the state of disease that plagues many people today. "or many of these conditions, high-tech medicine is overkill. It is a strange irony, but modern-day health problems are actually bringing people to better understand the value of ancient medicine. - Dr. Kovida Fisher, Licensed Acupuncturist