Trust Vs Like, West Vs East

[Guest guest]

" People ( in general ) trust western medicine but do

not like it.... People ( in general )like natural

medicine but do not trust it. "

 

I am looking for a dissolution of the publics

ignorance towards the merits of Traditional Chinese

Medicine and natural therapies, wishing to replace

ignorance with trust.

 

In response to these perplexing attitudes I am asking

for your points of view, or personal stories on why

you think people may prefer western over eastern

medicine, or eastern over western medicine.

 

Being brought up in western culture and now practicing

it has become poignant for me to

discover the reticence that most westerners have

towards and its root

cause....considering that natural remedies is one of

the fastest growing industries in the world,

regardless of the public's preconcieved ideas.

 

I had an intersting conversation with a Chinese taxi

driver from the Mainland, who had been in a western

country for most of his adult life. When I asked which

medicine he preffered he abruptly answered " western

of course " when I asked why he commented that western

medicine was like a bomb and blew all of the diseases

out of the water, and that chinese medicine was too

slow in general. I then asked him on what occasions

would the use of chinese medicine would be beneficial

he responded with more vigour that his first answer "

Oh when western medicine has failed! for things it

cannot cure, really serious stuff... that is when

chinese medicine is the best! "

 

" Why is it that TCM practicioners are regarded more

as magicians than doctors ? "

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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[Guest guest]

Scott,

 

I think that is a great description of how modern pharmaceutical

medicine works.

 

When you drop a bomb on a lake, you kill not only the pathogens, but

all of the life with it. All the fish and plants may die as well.

 

Pharmaceutical drugs kill the germs, but damage the host.. .the blood,

qi, fluids, viscera and bowels, or if you want, the terrain.

 

However, do they really 'kill' the germs, kill the diseases?

 

Many diseases are becoming more and more resistant to, for example,

antibiotics.

 

Most cancer cells cannot be completely 'killed' by chemotherapy drugs.

The patient will die before the cells do in many cases.

 

The HIV virus cannot be killed completely without killing the host.

 

Chinese medicine can work very quickly, if the diagnosis is correct,

the prescription on the mark, and the quality of the medicine good.

 

But there are more variables than in biomedicine.

 

One will definitely see changes if one drops a bomb ( a strong drug) on

the lake (the terrain of the body and mind).

 

However, is this curing the disease?

 

Today, I gave one dose of chai ge jie ji tang to a patient, and the

symptoms of a respiratory infection with fatigue, slight sore throat,

loss of voice, thin yellow coat and a floating slippery pulse almost

immediately resolved. The symptoms vanished within a half hour.

 

Is Chinese medicine slow?

 

 

On Friday, October 17, 2003, at 08:00 PM, SCOTT MARTIN wrote:

 

> I had an intersting conversation with a Chinese taxi

> driver from the Mainland, who had been in a western

> country for most of his adult life. When I asked which

> medicine he preffered he abruptly answered " western

> of course " when I asked why he commented that western

> medicine was like a bomb and blew all of the diseases

> out of the water, and that chinese medicine was too

> slow in general. I then asked him on what occasions

> would the use of chinese medicine would be beneficial

> he responded with more vigour that his first answer "

> Oh when western medicine has failed! for things it

> cannot cure, really serious stuff... that is when

> chinese medicine is the best! "