Drugs
Just recently had an interesting conversation with a friend who says he believes that TCM is mostly placebos, he brought up powdered deer d0ng as a point in fact. Yes, he got that sh!te from The Glimmer Man (lame). Now I don't necessarily disagree with him on the above, if for nothing but the strangeness of such a thing, but the more I read and think about it, it seems to me that Eastern/Western medicines are just two different approaches. I do not believe in most of how we in the West apply our medicines to afflictions, because the drugs our wonderful FDA approves only deal with the major symptoms of sicknesses, not the source, which I believe TCM does.
Can anyone elaborate on the general format of TCM?
Of course, I am nowhere near understanding everything there is about either form of health care, so that's why I'm asking.
Thoughts?
(also, there have not been any posts in the last 5 days, so it was convenient that I had a question. )
Last edited by tug; 02-16-2006 at 02:49 PM.
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