WHO will adopt this week a new “classification of diseases”. Meanwhile, a bitter dispute rages on, whether the Traditional Chinese medicine should be recognised as a healing method.
It was crazy: I had to prepare myself for an exam, but the 10-year-old daughter of my Japanese host family had a violent cold, and moved non-stop loudly in the nose. “Cleaning out the nose, drinking a hot lemon and don’t run barefoot through the house,” I advised her, as I had learned it, Yes.
The host family looked at me blankly: “What do the feet have to do with your nose? And why lemon? The wet, Wind and cold are penetrated in your body, you must. with heat producing foods combat”, so my host mother And even a hot water with lemon is a “cold food”, which can supply the body more than the cold. In addition, Acid have the effect of a pull-in. Then the disease would be kept even longer trapped in it.
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How does Traditional Chinese medicine?
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How does Traditional Chinese medicine?
We looked at all distressed.
The Little one ate a rice soup with green onions and radish and was very quickly back to health. In the case of a real flu you would have helped by the way a miso soup with Tofu, because it has a cooling effect and because of a flu, the body against the inner heat of fighting. So the view of my host family.
Worlds collide
This experience has reinforced for me at the time, impressive, what are the fundamental differences between Western medicine and in this case, “Traditional Chinese medicine” (TCM) and why the followers of one or the other method of combat so heated. Alternately, you discuss the effectiveness of many treatment methods.
“Traditional Chinese medicine is based not on science, but on mysticism, magic and anecdotes.” This is not a Western physician, but the renowned Chinese researchers catch Zhouzi2008 in the Science magazine wrote, however.
Especially representatives of the Western, “evidence-based medicine” refer to the TCM treatment methods as pseudo-scientific. The basic concepts of TCM are contrary to the scientific principles and empirical evidence were missing. Just because the TCM have a long Tradition, say this nothing about their actual effectiveness.
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Followers of Traditional Chinese medicine, in contrast, criticise, is that the conventional medicine is poorly targeted and evidence-based medicine is often ineffective, or the people as a Whole have. In addition, the holistic approach of TCM could not prove empirically.
Representatives of the Western medicine that the Chinese government is to drive forward the dissemination of TCM in the West, only to open up a new market for Chinese manufacturers. Representatives of traditional medicine, in turn, throwing the school of medicine, to stand in complete dependence on the powerful pharmaceutical industry.
Cupping and acupuncture are also now popular in the West
Different Approaches
While the TCM is traditionally used as a preventive measure for chronic diseases and pain conditions, the school of medicine to find the cause of the disease. You can’t turn them off cause they treated the symptoms.
According to TCM, the life energy of Qi is inherent in all living things and holds the two poles of Yin and Yang in a balanced flow. Yin represents rest, relaxation, and cold. Yang, by contrast, activity, dynamics, and heat.
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Acupressure quick help with everyday complaints
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In the human body, Qi is found mainly in the bodies, it flows in Qi channels of the body. These meridians extend from the head to the feet, i.e., from pole to Pole, similar to the Meridian system of the earth. Controlled, transported, fed, warmed, and everything is protected by the life energy Qi.
As long as Qi can flow freely, one is healthy. The energy is faltering flow, you are sick. This balance applies not only to the human body, but also on the social organism, the whole environment, to the cosmos.
Holistic diagnosis and therapy
For the diagnosis, the Patient is interviewed in detail and considered. However, only the regions of the body are considered to be visible and not clothed. In addition to the attitude, the eyes, the tongue, free of the skin. At different points and in three different Depths of Cun, Guan and Chi pulse is measured and in 28 different grades divided.
To the therapy, the Patient takes several times a day, remedies from plant, animal or mineral ingredients. Support the treatment by acupuncture, heat treatment, massage, or meditative Exercises such as Tai Chi and Qigong.
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Dangerous for animals and humans
Regardless of the question of effectiveness, the popularity of the naturopathic medicine a dramatic impact on some animal species, because drug manufacturers are using these as ingredients. Especially Tiger, snow leopard, Asian black bear, rhinoceros, Saiga antelope, certain pangolin species, saw rays, are affected, some of the seahorse species as well as various species of turtle.
Are at risk but may also many patients, not only because serious diseases are treated and in part ineffective. Although the manufacture and dosing is described in the Chinese Pharmacopoeia, exactly, but there are often considerable problems with respect to purity, mold, infestation, pollution by heavy metals and pesticides.
In 2013, were also found in a study of Chinese medicinal herbs in 17 of 36 samples residues of pesticides classified by the world health organization as extremely hazardous or dangerous. 26 of the 36 samples, residues on meadows above in the EU-approved maximum amounts.
School of medicine and/or TCM?
Beyond the irreconcilable positions, the growing recognition in both Camps that can complement both methods is also useful. Acupuncture, for example, is now well established in Western medicine. And also in today’s China, Western medicine and TCM are applied in parallel.