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Medicine is one of the things that I like and hate at the same time, because it means I am ill and it helps me recover.
It must be a very interesting experience to see a doctor who examines you in the ancient Chinese way. He’ll put his fingers on your wrist lightly to study your pulse and ask you some irrelevant questions such as “do you like the photo I put on the wall?” after that he’ll give you the diagnosis and you can go to the pharmacy to get the medicine. Isn’t it very mysterious? He can know well how’s your health condition only by touching your wrist without asking you “where don’t you feel well?”
Western way of diagnosing a patient is quite different. The doctor may wear a stethoscope and put the other end on your chest to listen to your heartbeat or look into your mouth while you utter “ah…” or ask you to take a test of blood. After a complicated examination, you’ll get the diagnosis. This process seems more believable than Chinese way because the diagnosis has been given based on a very complex examination.
Chinese medicine may be a nightmare to you. Because it will take a very long time to put the various herb medicines together in a pot and boil it. After several hours of boiling, it comes the most difficult time. The bitterness of it is something you can hardly bear. What is more unacceptable is that in order to cure you, you have to take the medicine for a long time, so it means you have to taste the bitterness for more than once! How terrible!
Taking western medicine is much easier. Prepare a bottle of water and swallow the pill with mouthful water, that’s it. And usually if you only get a cold or stomachache, you only need to take the medicine for about 3 days and you’ll get well. It works very fast.
From the above, you maybe conclude that western medicine is much better than Chinese one. It is really better to some extent such as it works much faster, and it can be taken much easier. However, Chinese medicine has a dominant advantage over western one. If a traditional Chinese doctor saw acne on your face, he may ask you to take the medicine whose function is to solve the problem of your kidney which is the basic cause of the illness. But the western medicine you get will only focus on the problem of your skin. Chinese medicine concentrates on the basic cause of the symptom while western medicine solves the problem on the skin only, that’s why Chinese medicine works very slowly, it solves the problem so slowly that you can hardly feel it.
It is not responsible to say which is good and which is bad, because both Chinese and western medicine help people become healthy. And if we can mix their advantages together, it must be the best result. Make Chinese medicine work faster, and make western medicine focus more on the basic cause.
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Posted by nina880224 on 2008-07-10 23:18:57 | Rating: | Views: 45
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So True!
I really wish that western medicine would address a patients health more holistically like Chinese medicine...also a lot of the time the "fast, easy" medicine is almost as harmful as the sickness itself!
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Posted by Shannon
on 2008-07-11 02:04:36
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thanks for the info. great really. i am getting used to Chinese trad med and hope tyo learn more as I remain here. You did a great job on writing.
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Posted by norm4u2
on 2008-07-14 09:31:44
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