Introduction to Traditional Chinese Medicine
To most people, Western Medicine is scientific, more widely accepted and belongs to the main stream tools toward health and wellness. Hence, it is the defacto choice for them.
While I have utmost respect for the advancement Western Medicine have made until today, I have come across enough cases that makes me convinced that TCM is the superior choice to Western Medicine when it comes to achieving good health. I will say TCM is more effective at keeping people in the pink of health while Western Medicine is better in treating sick people. When people are severely ill, Western Medicine is the better choice of treatment as it works faster on the symptoms.
What is my basis for concluding so? Western medicine treats symptoms but do not get to the root of the problem. For someone suffering from headache they usually prescribe pain killers but falls short of addressing the real cause of the headaches. When a patient has high fever, sometimes they ask the patient to dip in cold water or stay in cold air-conditioned rooms to combat the rising temperature. I will be the first to lend my experience that the type of fever I suffers always get worse if I treat myself with cold water or cold air. Proponents of Western Medicine may challenge me to say why make a fuss when the illness is “cured”. I will say the symptoms may be cured but the root cause of the illness is merely subdued. The result of which is a weaker health constitution in the long term.
TCM is very different as it seeks to identify the underlying health deficiencies. TCM acknowledge that the body consists of organs that are all interlinked and their yin & yang composition determines how the energy flows within the organs of the body.
TCM thus goes right to the root of the health problem instead of just treating the symptoms. Rome is not built in a day, and neither should we expect our health problems to be fully cured by a TCM practitioner within a short period of time. For those that have developed to a critically late stage of illnesses, I still advocate they rely on Western Medicine but use TCM as the longer term fallback solution.
3 Responses to “Introduction to Traditional Chinese Medicine”
June 13th, 2008 at 12:53 am
very true though you might want to check for grammer before you post
June 13th, 2008 at 1:29 am
Thanks for viewing the post. Thank you also for your kind feedback
June 17th, 2008 at 3:13 am
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