ok, I'm going to brek my own rule here and reply to this because I want to use it as an object lesson on how people who have poor reading comprehension skills ought not to post on a written forum:
here's a summary:
1) IM said he thought he needed a TKR (total knee replacement) and that GM DW had "cured" his knee, rendering the allegedly needed surgery unecessary (hence, substantiating GM DW's skils as a "great" healer)
2) I asked him why he thought this was the case, and if an ORTHOPEDIST had told him this or not; he never answered
3) I illustrated the conditions under which a TKR was typically necessary: major degenerative changes of the knee joint (which is NOT the same thing as "arthritis")
4) I pointed out that when a knee joint is that far gone, no amount of external linemant/in ernal herbs are going to reverse it, especially not in 4 months
I never doubted that at all - I just doubted the reportedly extreme condition in which IM claimed his knee was, and I pointed out why; I also called into doubt the ability of the methods used by Doo Wai to effect that change (nothing about him personally); and if you read my posts carefully, I said that probably IM was suffereing from a chronic local inflammatory process of the knee - last time I checked "doctor," arthritis qualified under this type of definition - so if he had "arthritis" then i have no problem with dit da jow and the like being an effective cure: it's basicaly a "natural" form of anti-inflmmatory medicine; I too have seen "arthristis" be improved very rapidly by TCM, as well as by other things, like manual therapy, all of which are supposedly impossible according to allopathic medical standards
but that is NOT what I am talking about: what I have a problem with is someone claiming that his knee was so degenerated that he was in need of a TKR, and that it was "cured" as the result of linements and herbal remedies - that's BS and misleading - or if it were the truth, then there would be some very interesting x-ray evidence before and after to substantiate it, not to mention an orthopedist scratching his head somewhere...
since I wasn't actually offended (he assumed that I was offended, I don't know why; for me to be offended I would have had to have given a crap about what he thinks about me, which I really don't), there was no need to apologise - and I still think he's unable to carry on a logical discussion; same goes for you