Complementary/Alternative Medicine: Traditional Chinese

Blaise

I have turned to acupunture to help alleivate and cure the symptoms of axillary hyperhidrosis (excessive sweating). After 3 sessions, I am already beginning to notice a difference after 10+ years of angst and frustration due to excessive sweat. @ thumbs up for acu.

Demetrius

I know, take it ur british like me?

Jarrett

erbs? lol

Layne

@harly30 Traditional medicine no side effects where have you been planet zarg!

Janelle

Big pharma LOVES alternative medicine.

Big pharma can sell merely water at a huge price,and forget about costly research on safety and efficacy and the damned FDA restrictions.

And the most important aspect: it can easily sell such medicine to healthy people, because the target now is not to cure a real specific condition but to achieve the more vague ‘wellness’ goal.And guess what: Everyone can and ought to get some more ‘wellness’(i.e. is a potential customer).

It’s a dream for big pharma.

Ari

excellent worker!

Emmanuel

Actually the placebo effect is proven to have a true physical effect.
A recent study is published in Newscientist.

Google:
Placebo effect caught in the act in spinal nerves

Tony

amen TOAFN, preach it!

Carlie

acupuncture works if you take a pill your waiting & hoping it works (placebo effect) if your getting acupuncture you can feel it working during your consultation. the body is a pressurized vessel, by applying pressure in certain areas you release tension. go try it & you’ll know….

Saniyah

Google:

Associated Press declares war on alternative medicine

Big Pharma doesn’t care about your health.
They care about your deseases.

Vitamines are bad for you!!!

Cedric

You forget that idiots exist.

Camryn

Placebo - people think it’ll work so it works.
TCM - works on SOME things, including things that western medicine ***** at.
Western Medicine - works on SOME things, including things that tcm ***** at.

Paulina

hmmm how can what you say be true? oh yes you are right, but western medicine is only three years ahead of chinese, Life Expectancy for Americans 76, Life Expectancy of Chinese 73. But of course Traditional medicine is cheaper, less invasive and with no side effects. I guess its a matter of choosing the pill or the herb. I know where the herb comes from, don’t know the pill.

Alfonso

May I suggest that you should refrain from throwing out comments without specifying your claims, “the great detail” that you mention is put into this is not from “people” it is, in fact, from 5000 years of trial and error as opposed to western medicine. Of course if this is making people feel better and western medicine is not, i’m fine with that as well. Take care of your logic, the placebo effect should be left inside the water pills becouse it is certainly far from something as deep as this.

Ashanti

This doesn’t imply that ridicule is a path to truth, some things are simply ridiculous.

Lyric

So far it’s all inconclusive study, indistinguishable from a Placebo. yeahyeahyeah I know there have been some studies that show a greater effectiveness of acupuncture but considering the level of detail people put into this scam it’s not surprising that patients might be very convinced of it. You might say that the prevalence of this “TCM” is explained by its very strong placebo effect.
But hey if it makes people feel better and they’re willing to spend that much money on it I’m fine with that.

Lexi

Interesting video and chat here. I see many patients in Denver Colorado for acupuncture and accept insurance, so not sure why people think acupuncture treatment isn’t covered by health insurance.

It’s also important to hear what other people who have tried acupuncture have to say about if it worked for their problem.

Debra Arko Novotny
Accent On Health

Devan

It’s like the say - what I don’t understand I despise, what I despise I reject….
“All truth passes through three stages: first it is ridiculed, second it is violently opposed, third it is accepted as being self-evident.” Arthur Schopenhauer, German philosopher, (1788-1860)

Jorge

Yes, politics. Another story.
But I doubt medical scientists and doctors who lead are “majorly in favor of TCM”.

Some doctors just think, if that patient is becalmed by using placebo tricks, so be it.

I never said placebo is not real.
I said people who pretend to heal everything, even severe traumas, as they say, by tapping themselves for instance, are umh… wrong, so wrong.
Evil liars, in my eyes.

Diamond

you should know, The medical scientist and doctors who lead world medicine are majorly in favor of TraditionallChinese Medicine (TCM) and the effectives and safety of the theory and applied technique. The science is in to an extent, go do your research in journals. However the medical acupuncturist association (the board for M.D. acupuncturist in the us) doubts that a gold standard will do the medicine justice. The WHO is a strong proponent, and the ICD-10 will have codes for TCM.

Pablo

cool story hansel, maybe you could try bloodletting to balance your sanguine humour

Neveah

According to all my friends and science, there are no meridians. I trust science, and I love empirism and its direction. Of course western medicine,as you call it,has not everything figured out.But I trust this kind of medicine only.Look up science and empirism,if you don’t know what they mean.Lot more trustful approach than simplistic hokum.
Believe me, “western medicine” has found out a 1000 times more things than eso-world.

Douglas

Maybe the reason why you couldn’t feel anything is because you can’t even feel YOUR OWN CHI. How sad….Try some qigong, yoga or taichi and try a acupuncture treatment again. Also, all because you “don’t feel anything” doesn’t mean nothing is happening. You are probably lacking “body-awareness”. You need to sit down and meditate, maybe then you would not be so ignorant.

Peace Be With You

Vivian

How do you know there are no meridians? There are plenty of things in your body you cannot “see” or have any awareness of. Don’t assume that so-called “western medicine” has everything figured out either!

Maxim

The best anti-aging product I’ve ever seen is actually Alex Chiu’s Magnetic
Discovery. The other people are just nonsense.