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Complementary or alternative medicine: Traditional Chinese
Nearly half the U.S. population turns to complementary, alternative practices and integration to maintain or improve their health. Beverly Burns of UCSF explores the Osher Center for Integrative Medicine Chinese traditional medicine such as acupuncture, meridians and chi. Series: UCSF Mini Medical School for the public “[[] 12/2007] [Health and Medicine Show ID: 13073]
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#2 written by edthewave 1 year ago
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
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#3 written by AnonymousCowardX 1 year ago
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. -
#5 written by Sivant 1 year ago
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.
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#6 written by SimulacronX 1 year ago
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.
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#7 written by efs72 1 year ago
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#8 written by drdebra 1 year ago
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
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#9 written by kungfuseadog 1 year ago
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. -
#11 written by harly30 1 year ago
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.
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#12 written by harly30 1 year ago
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.
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#16 written by HappyBirthdaySANTA 1 year ago
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#20 written by 11thsockpuppet 1 year ago
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.
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#24 written by reveries119 1 year ago
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#25 written by 11thsockpuppet 1 year ago
Big pharma is extremely desperate to suppress alternative medicine. They’ve had my doctor here in Belgrade, dr Dabic, arrested and you won’t imagine what they charges are.
They are trying him for genocide! Yes, you read correctly! Big pharma is so ludicrous; they’ll go to complete extremes to scare people and protect their profits. They are completely laughable.
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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!