Sunday, June 18, 2006

Modern v.s Ancient medicine: Who's right?



Traditional Chinese Medicine (T.C.M) is based on invisble energy. According to conventional thinking, it is undeniably irrational. The terminology of energy, Qi, sounds "nonmedical". The spirit seems superstitious, and unscientific. Concepts like wind attack or heart fire are unfamiliar to Western medicine and thus illogical.

Are thousands of years of T.C.M practice on a quater of the global population a placebo effect?

Western medicine focuses on the body, as opposed to the mind, believing the two to be seperate. I believe having a scientific approach is vital yet with such a narrow focus one can easily lose sight of the whole picture.

Ah...the differences between western and eastern medicine.

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