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Why bother with Chinese medicinals when Anerican equivalents are much

more controlled? Simply ask for an independent assay.

 

Inquiring further, has anyone else read _Rackateering In Medicine_,

by James B. Carter ?

 

The discussion about frequency was fruitful to me. We U.S.

practitioners, within the current socio-economic paradigm, i.e.,

insurance and the prevalent thought that acupuncture is not worthy of

reimbursement..., find ourselves in a position forcefully stuck

between being forced to subside our ways to ICD-9 codes and

recommended procedures or to go beside these, and then we face

oblivion....

 

There are no codes for Rising-Liver-Yang, or Jing- deficiency, etc.

 

 

So until we can prescend our way of of practicing medicine as

legitamate, let alone efficacious, we will face an unwinnable battle.

 

Once again, my point is that unless we become familiar with our

current Western jargon and paradigm, we face ridicule [like it or

not....]

 

 

 

let's move beyond our petty battles.

 

 

let's focus.

 

later,

 

luke