Q Even tests can't pinpoint a clear cause—so how exactly does Korean medicine approach these after-effects?
A Rather than searching for a specific disease name, Korean medicine looks at what has been depleted and what remains in the body after infection, and where the balance has broken down. That's why it can offer an approach tailored to your condition even for after-effects that tests can't clearly identify.
Detailed Answer
Modern medical tests are strong at finding disease in a specific organ, but they often can't detect functional after-effects that remain without a clear lesion. Much of long COVID's fatigue, brain fog, and autonomic symptoms fall into this category, so "normal test results" and "real symptoms" can coexist.
Our Korean Medicine Clinic's Perspective
Korean medicine takes the body's state of balance, not a disease name, as the unit of diagnosis. Through pulse diagnosis and consultation, we identify depleted qi and blood, remaining heat and waste, and blocked circulation, then approach by correcting that imbalance. This is why there's still room to help even with after-effects whose cause isn't clearly identified by testing.
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