Chinese traditional medicine

Chinese traditional medicine

an ancient health care system based on the concept of vital energy (Qi) and the opposing forces of yin (negative energy) and yang (positive energy). It incorporates herbal medicine, exercises, meditation and acupuncture.

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Patient discussion about Chinese traditional medicine.

Q. What is the medical sense behind Chinese Medicine? and traditional treatments?

A. it's trial and error of thousands of years. not always true but some times even more effective then western medicine. the best idea is to combine them both. at least that's my opinion.

Q. for what known desease there are effective traditional medicines , and particularly , chinese medicines? if i'll compare between the effectiveness of tradition medicines like chinese and modern med's what would the results teach me ?

A. like in any meds chineses or not,,find out what the active compound in the med is,and then take it from there,to finding out how much of the compound you need in a med to be affective on a certain disease,in general chineses meds take lomger to be affective,because of the low dose of a compound,if you have a major disease,i dont think you would want to use chineses meds,i dont think you would want to use chineses meds if you are having an asthmatic attack,or heart attack,or sever pain,cancer,ect,the disease would kill you before the chinese meds started to work....peace.....mrfoot56

Q. What makes traditional medications effective? are chineses medications different than others medicines?

A. What makes modern medications effective? Many natural substances have effect on the body. In fact, most of our current modern medications are actually derived from natural sources. Chinese medications may have lower concentrations of the active substances, so they may be less potent, although they may be as dangerous as well. Another difference is that Chinese medications weren't studies as thoroughly as modern medications.

You may read more here:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traditional_Chinese_medicine