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traditional medicine

1 Any system of health care that has ancient roots, cultural bonds, trained healers, and a theoretical construct; traditional systems include ayurvedic medicine, ethnomedicine, shamanism, traditional Chinese medicine 2 Mainstream medicine, see there

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Patient discussion about traditional medicine.

Q. How effective are the traditional medicines?

A. I agree, chinese medicine is more about preventing- having the person totaly healthy at all times and not only curing the disease.

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