Share your experiences with Chinese Medicine: Where can I learn ABOUT Chinese Medicine?

5 Comments

1. Clara M says:

   August 29, 2010 at 2:41 am

   i’m not sure about websites, but there’s plenty of schools that train people up – try looking up ‘south west school chinese medicine’ – it’s in the UK. they should have links or book lists.

   acupuncture and acupressure are definitely real, there are massages (i’ve tried to learn them, but i found that only martial artists teach some of them, and not usually in a healing capacity – they just do the ‘knock people unconcious’ versions, and they won’t teach you that anyway unless you go to classes for like years) that work on those principals.
   eg – using the right points in the body can work the same way as an anaesthetic, and it’s been used to operate on people without them feeling what is going on.

   there’s also herbal medicine. herbal medicine is basically the same for any country or area it comes from, but the plants used would be plants found in that area. pharmacy meds are nearly always based on plant and mineral extracts anyway – the difference is that they will tend to isolate what the active molecules in the plants are, and then make synthetic versions or use extracts. then they add other stuff in, which is often not the kind of thing that should be in meds at all.

   if you’re interested look up aryuvedic (i probably spelled that wrong) too – it’s the Indian medicine system, and diet-nutritional system.
2. Love is all says:

   August 29, 2010 at 2:41 am

   I have acupuncture twice a month and take orally the natural herb medicine the Chinese doctor gives me ( bai he gu jin wan medicine). I believe in it and trust them.
   I have been going there for a year and half on and off, because its expensive. He also made me up bath herbs to get the toxins out of my skin (i had bad allergic and skin problems at the time).
   He is very good and his father owns another one. He looks at my tongue, eyes, feels body heat and my pulse – and anything else he does that i don’t know about!

   He has also given me ;
   Dang gui ku shen wan (for my blood) , and pifubing xuedu wan, in the past when i was bad. (those made me feel much better and helped me)

   I still go to my GP if i have any concerns and for checkups.
3. Tamim says:

   August 29, 2010 at 2:41 am

   I am using Foot Reflexology regularly. Not sure if that is Chinese or not but it is great
4. Nitram says:

   August 29, 2010 at 2:41 am

   It’s outdated. There is very little evidence for its efficacy and the real danger with it is that it delays the victim getting real treatment for serious diseases. How would you feel if you were a bear and kept getting big needles shoved into you to extract bile? Horrible and cruel.
5. dave says:

   August 29, 2010 at 2:41 am

   Disadvantages:

   It doesn’t work.
   Chinese ‘doctors’ have a far greater incidence of urological cancer: http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=AhhelBHGPQUcJAkee4nEOvXty6IX;_ylv=3?qid=20100216151826AAITANk
   Some herbal mixtures lead to kidney failure http://www.onpointnews.com/NEWS/chinese-medicine-doctor-sued-over-dangerous-herbs.html
   With no safety measures, herbal substances could be contaminated with anything
   The ‘education’ that those who practice this sort of thing receive, is truely shocking: http://www.dcscience.net/?p=2043

   Advantages:

   Anyone with half a brain cell can do it (not an advantage for the patient obviously!)
   It sounds "New-Agey"
   You get to wear a white coat and sell dessicated herbs at astronomical mark-ups

   Edit: Excellent post Clara, please stick around you’re priceless!