Re: Chinese vs. Western treatment? (was: Injuries)

"Greendistantstar" <pde63539removethis@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote
Sure, but let's not suggest or imply that there is any real comparison
between traditional Chinese medicine and western medicine.

Can't do that-
because CM is a 'whole' system, we can't ignore the herbal pharmacoepia-
it's certainly being studied by Westerners, thus the sudden 'outlawing' of
Ephedra, for example.
Can't ignore the therapeutic massage- formulated from acupuncture points.
It's probably the widest practice of a CM treatment.
Can't ignore the vast literature in the Chinese language. They're
demonstrably not foolish people- and *very* literate. If we care enough to
find out, there's a huge library of information available.
There are presently trials going on in the Western-culture practitioner
group. I don't know if it's possible to build a clinical protocol that
reliably measures much of anything. I don't see the hardware available, nor
the double-blind situation, nor a measure of different
practitioners/modalities.
There is a vast amount of anecdotal evidence- the only kind generated by the
practice.

No studies available on the IQs of ancient Chinese.

Except for the huge incidence of their sophisticated product- everything
from ceramics to a standardized language for scholars.

In any case, they have the longest history of consistant practice-
preceded us by the odd millennia or so.
Yes, and much of it is baloney.

They came to the idea of experimentation far earlier than we- earlier
dissection, earlier drug trials, earlier 'whole-body' therapies,.....
Earlier.

Yes, they identified certain plant and animal extracts as being
beneficial, and that's about it.

To include sea-life, volcanic pure minerals, insects; compounded.

Quite true, and the understanding of how these things work was left to
western medicine, as the Chinese had no means by which to do it.

Sure they did, and they did it. And they did it in a writing that was
standardized a thousand years ago- and movable type to make the material
available broadly.

The list of advances that put western medicine far, far beyond anything
ever conceived of by traditional Asian 'medicine', and one is hard put to
even begin a comprehensive list.

It's not a contest, buddy-
that's another very Chinese concept, by the way.

Just off the top of my head, genetics, anaesthesia, organ transplants, the
discovery and worldwide distribution of penicillin, treatment/cure of
cataracts and, well, the list goes on and on.....

How happy and proud you must be.

Chas


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