Re:acupuncturists can't prescribe herbs

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has anyone seen this

Integrated medicine in the East may differ from that in the West

Jongbae Park

BMJ 2001;322 1126

http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/322/7294/1126

 

Admittedly it was 1984 when I was in China, but then acupuncturists

certainly presribed herbs , naturally not all of them. Has anyone been

to China recently and like to correct the British JM.

 

Heiko

[Guest guest]

Heiko Lade wrote:

>

> has anyone seen this

> Integrated medicine in the East may differ from that in the West

> Jongbae Park

> BMJ 2001;322 1126

> http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/322/7294/1126

>

> Admittedly it was 1984 when I was in China, but then acupuncturists

> certainly presribed herbs , naturally not all of them. Has anyone been

> to China recently and like to correct the British JM.

 

I was there in 1997 and there were acupuncturists writing prescriptions,

though usually for special patients with whom they had developed a repore.

 

Never saw any of the herbalists/internal medicine people doing

acupuncture, though.

 

Everybody used western medicine and tests as appropriate, either to rule

something out or to provide additional help for associated pathologies

that were suspected.

 

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Al Stone L.Ac.

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