Complementary/Alternative Medicine: Traditional Chinese
Nearly half the US populations turns to complementary, alternative and integrative practices to maintain or improve their health. Beverly Burns of UCSF’s Osher Center for Integrative Medicine explores traditional Chinese medicine including acupuncture, meridians and chi. Series: “UCSF Mini Medical School for the Public” [12/2007] [Health and Medicine] [Show ID: 13073]
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It’s like the say – …
It’s like the say – what I don’t understand I despise, what I despise I reject….
“All truth passes through three stages: first it is ridiculed, second it is violently opposed, third it is accepted as being self-evident.” Arthur Schopenhauer, German philosopher, (1788-1860)
Yes, politics. …
Yes, politics. Another story.
But I doubt medical scientists and doctors who lead are “majorly in favor of TCM”.
Some doctors just think, if that patient is becalmed by using placebo tricks, so be it.
I never said placebo is not real.
I said people who pretend to heal everything, even severe traumas, as they say, by tapping themselves for instance, are umh… wrong, so wrong.
Evil liars, in my eyes.
you should know, …
you should know, The medical scientist and doctors who lead world medicine are majorly in favor of TraditionallChinese Medicine (TCM) and the effectives and safety of the theory and applied technique. The science is in to an extent, go do your research in journals. However the medical acupuncturist ociation (the board for M.D. acupuncturist in the us) doubts that a gold standard will do the medicine justice. The WHO is a strong proponent, and the ICD-10 will have codes for TCM.
cool story hansel, …
cool story hansel, maybe you could try bloodletting to balance your sanguine humour
According to all my …
According to all my friends and science, there are no meridians. I trust science, and I love empirism and its direction. Of course western medicine,as you call it,has not everything figured out.But I trust this kind of medicine only.Look up science and empirism,if you don’t know what they mean.Lot more trustful approach than simplistic hokum.
Believe me, “western medicine” has found out a 1000 times more things than eso-world.
Maybe the reason …
Maybe the reason why you couldn’t feel anything is because you can’t even feel YOUR OWN CHI. How sad….Try some qigong, yoga or taichi and try a acupuncture treatment again. Also, all because you “don’t feel anything” doesn’t mean nothing is happening. You are probably lacking “body-awareness”. You need to sit down and meditate, maybe then you would not be so ignorant.
Peace Be With You
How do you know …
How do you know there are no meridians? There are plenty of things in your body you cannot “see” or have any awareness of. Don’t ume that so-called “western medicine” has everything figured out either!
The best anti-aging …
The best anti-aging product I’ve ever seen is actually Alex Chiu’s Magnetic
Discovery. The other people are just nonsense.
The rats are …
The rats are jumping ship.
CHEMRISK – a research company hired by the Corn Refiners ociation has recently taken down it’s YouTube channel.
The removal was in response to negative public perception resulting from the discovery of dangerous levels of MERCURY in HIGH-FRUCTOSE CORN SYRUP. Apparently it has become a liability to defend the sweetener.
See one of the last remaining ChemRisk videos at CornRefinersAssoc on YouTube.
I find it highly …
I find it highly depicable to stick to esoteric non-sense and to exploit naive people who possibly seek real help.
Alternative medicine is based on nothing.
There are no meridians.
Stop the madness.
you’re right, I’m 5 …
you’re right, I’m 5 years old and can’t differentiate between medicine and culture
durrrrrr…
It’s magnificently …
It’s magnificently clear that you are clueless about acupuncture so one can only conclude that your rantings are a feeble racist attempt to minimize another culture’s achievements to make you feel better about your own.
being treated by an …
being treated by an experienced acupuncturist is indistinguishable from a NHS nurse randomly poking you with needles as far as health effects go, hth
Bravo! Bravo! …
Bravo! Bravo! Beverly Burns. You have done the world a service of highest order. Words do not describe my delight with your highly intelligent, clear and accessible presentation. Thank you x 10.
Junosdaughter. Your …
Junosdaughter. Your response to archipankrator is correct but you diction is far too complicated for the idiot you’re talking to.If you want to get your point across, speak to him as you would to a child.
archipanktator. …
archipanktator. It’s the west that coined the phrase,”alternative medicine”. because4 they didn’t understand it. Fact is,Chinese medicine is about 3000 years old and and the western world now recognizes that it is far more advanced then their arrogance lead them to believe. What were your ancestors doing 3000 years ago?Did you ever see the movie,”Braveheart”?They lived like cavemen didn’t they?That was only 700 years ago. So hole.Read a book before you speak.
Ummm….it’s only …
Ummm….it’s only called ‘alternative’ from the perspective from countries dominated by Western Medicine…’alternative’ doesn’t describe TCMs potential for accurate diagnosis and treatment, nor does it ess TCMs scientific merits. It merely positions TCM (among other medical traditions) SOCIALLY – TCM is an alternative to the dominant medical system.
As a Naturopathy student I find TCM valuable as a diagnostic tool which indicates areas in the body requiring treatment.
it helps foreign …
it helps foreign people learn and understand more about traditional chinese medicine and underlying theories.
Very interesting.
Very interesting.
The reason it’s …
The reason it’s called “alternative medicine” is that if it worked, it’d just be called medicine.
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“When the fool …
“When the fool hears the Tao he laughs.
If he didn’t laugh it wouldn’t be the Tao.”
-Lao Tzu
I thought this was …
Thumbs up to “Quackery”!!
I thought this was the best video to explain the basics for TCM! I enjoyed it… I am a first year student of TCM, and have just learned this info in the class room setting. I’m really disturbed to see the number of people posting such negative comments surrounding this subject. This is a practice that is supposed to bring harmony and peace to the individual. I hope one day those negative bloggers will be able to experience “enlightenment”
Well, it’s like in …
Well, it’s like in science there’re lots of theories that can’t be explained. Same with Chinese medicine, it only works, but cannot be explained using our current amount of knowledge of science.
Normally I treat Chinese medicines as models. Like in science there are lots of models to explain some phenomenons.
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Hello Taijicheng
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o Taijicheng
Are the Yin and Yang the north and south of two magnetic fields ?.
Im just reading a book by Michio Kushi called “Your face never lies” written in the seventies. I find this to be a truely interesting field. In the book Michio Kushi tends to use general terms though there is much to be found online, I am only beggining to understand what invaluable practice Oriental Diagnosis is.