Ache Ache causes from sensory receptor in the body that signals that the harm happens inside and outside the body or protests that the body is overused. Persons who never get pain seem to have short life because there is no mechanism to prevent themselves from infection, injury, or malfunction of organs. Elderly persons need to take some medicines and the most used is painkiller. This is because they encounter the body ache such as neck pain, shoulder pain, waist pain, leg and knee pain. Some of them have a pain while walking in which will be better after taking some rest. Some may get worse after the rest but will recover after taking another walk. With these reasons, the elderly need to take medicine to relieve the pain though they recognize the effect of taking medicine in long term and learn that it is only the relief, not the accurate treatment. There are many causes of body ache 1. Entering the golden ages – take hormone prescribed by the doctor 2. Overuse of muscle or energy or too much exercise – take enough rest 3. Cumulative stress may cause ache and pain, particularly at the back, neck, shoulder, and arm and leg muscles – adjust the mood after accepting that having some stress 4. Deficiency of vitamin and minerals, antioxidant, or nutrition deficiency 5. Being detoxifying from having tonic or taking some food for detoxification 6. Less exercise, drinking water sometimes cause ache and pain Treatment from the root cause of Chinese Medicine Organs and meridians that are related consists of kidney, bladder, liver, spleen, gallbladder 1. Kidney According to Chinese medicine, it controls bones, bone-marrow, brain-marrow (is brain and spinal cord and all nerves) 2. Bladder is the organ related to the kidney so have effect on each other 3. Liver controls tendons 4. Gallbladder is the organ related to the liver so have effect on each other 5. Spleen controls all muscles It can be seen that modern treatment and Chinese treatment are different; only treats the specific pain or treats the whole body, as well as solves at the root problem or the cause of pain. Acupuncture or taking herb is able to treat ache and pain efficiently. This is because the body keeps warning us. If we neglect something, it will send a signal when we are getting older since everything has its lifetime, depends on how the person takes care oneself.