Guest guest Posted August 3, 2005 Report Share Posted August 3, 2005 It looks like Cancer is a TCM disease after all?? Recently I have been studying a lot on Cancer and and interestingly in the introduction of this Cancer book, which BTW is exclusively , starts off by saying. " TCM has been developed for over 2000 years. The huangdineijing is the earliest medical treatise which compiled many tumor-related terms, such as shi liu (chronic tumor)… Subsequent doctors of various dynasties described goiters (ying liu), wart, abdominal mass (ji ju)… and Cancer (ai). They are all classified as tumors… The doctors and treatment of these diseases in their books. " This author IMO considers Cancer part of CM. Either way Chinese doctors use disease names like Cancer & endometriosis. Call it integrative, call is Western, or call is whatever – This is IMO just splitting hairs… CM IS integrative, it is expanding… and it is clear that using such terms, which the Chinese as a whole are doing, only gives us more information on the disease process… I would like to see anyone out there try to treat Cancer with just addressing some Zang-Fu pattern, or just fatigue and nausea. - Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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