Posted by bleauberry on December 1, 2010, at 19:44:56
In reply to Re: Adrenal gland damage from Meds, posted by Hombre on December 1, 2010, at 0:00:45
Cool. I am happy to see there is someone here that knows about Chinese medicine. My Dad, a surgeon, was fascinated when he toured China and saw pharmacies that had drawers full of all kinds of plants and herbs. They've been at it for thousands of years. They know what these plants do. Many of them have literally hundreds of scientific and clinical studies on them as well.
American medicine is focused on HOW things work. They like to be able to explain things in scientific terms. The Chinese don't care much how something works. They care what works for what symptoms. And thus maybe the strange non-scientific explanations of how they work. Regardless, they've been doing for thousands of years while American medicine has only been doing it for about 70 years.
It is so foreign to Americans though. The concept of heat versus cool, ying versus yang, and such, sounds so bizarre to the statistical compartmentalized scientific minds of Americans. But it's all basically the same, just viewed differently and worded differently.
I was first introduced to the concept of Eastern medicine when I read a book by Dr Zhang of New York, who blends Eastern and Western medicine in the fight against Lyme disease, liver disease, and hepatitis. He claims the blend of plants and medicines is better than either alone.
Thanks for the ideas. I'm going to take a look at the ones you mentioned. I wish there was a good Chinese med doctor in my area. Thanks to technology and the web though, we can get answers to questions we have, which wasn't possible 20 years ago.
American medicine....good. Chinese medicine...good. A blend of the two....best. IMO.
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