Guest guest Posted December 30, 2002 Report Share Posted December 30, 2002 A few thoughts about eclectism. I have to remind myself that I'm not prescribing with the full range of . Reading about cholostrum for arthritis I realize that I'm not prescibing the patient sit down with a plate of pig bones and cartiledge and eating everything. My knowledge of " folk remedies " is rather small. I'm not big on using TuiNa, sweating, moxa, scraping, bleeding etc... So there are more " eclectic " aspects of the medicine I am most familiar with. Also in the West if we are to follow the Tao, it's a very eclectic world out there in alternative medicine. Many of our patients make a career out of hanging in the morning at the homeopathic pharmacy, getting rolfed at lunch, Yoga after work and acupuncture every week. I have one patient who has been coming for years, she sees me for the neck pain, an other NAET acupuncturist/cranial sacral specialist for " allergies " (who muscle tests the herbs I give her! ;-( and will soon see a third China trained specialist in thyroid conditions. It's wierd but I got to accept it as her way of getting better. Obviously, if I were better at both doctoring and patient management I could convince her I can do it all. But, again, I see her bouncing around as a way of keeping her ailments in order for herself. Also about the IBS study where standard formulas work best at first, it also fits into the general pattern of giving patients patent medicines for the first couple of visits until they get better and get used to the herbs and then starting to do raw and powdered custom formulas. Hey! I hope you all had and are having a good holiday season! doug Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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