Big Yn & Yang (was: Help!)

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Chinese Traditional Medicine , " victoria_dragon "

<victoria_dragon@h...> wrote:

> > I think maybe there are modern diseases which require

modern

> solutions?

>

> I agree. Many modern people face things that the ancient

Chinese

> simply did not face.

 

Hi Victoria! I just wanted to chime in with my support for what

you've said. I'm an " enthuseast " of alternative and Chinese

medicine, not a practitioner, but I'm often surprised that some

alternative practitioners & enthuseasts seem to be as inflexible

as the closed-minded western advocates that they decry. My

understanding is that the basis of chinese medicine is balance,

but some practitioners that I've met really fail to apply it to the

world around them.

Western medicine, IMHO, is very Yang--strong medicine, quick

results, while Eastern med is Yin by nature--receptive & subtle,

so that they compliment each other pretty well. Even the way they

percieve symptoms are complimentary (to a point) rather than

competitive: Chinese med has no easy answers for some " big

problems " and Western med doesn't even percieve some of the

things that are simple to treat in the chinese scheme of things.

 

And stretching a bit: Western med seems to have developed in

an environment of " excess " and addresses such things, while

Chinese med has extensive tools for dealing with " deficiency. "

In fact, i see the whole feed & food additive problem as a

condition of " excess. "

 

Looking at the bigger picture, I can't help but feel that one of the

reasons that there are more people, especially kids, diagnosed

with more things is simply that more kids are surviving than ever

before. That is, some are surviving childhood diseases, and

some are surviving with debilities that would have killed 'em in

years past. Also, I think that Western diagnosis has gotten more

detailed & discriminating (whether for good or bad).

 

Extending that idea to diseases of all sorts around the world,

people tend to forget that the Earth is a sort of organism that

needs to maintain it's internal balance, just like and individual.

Things like pollution & over-population will provoke a defense

response just the way an imbalance in one's body can trigger a

fever or an immune reaction.

 

Anyway, those are just my opinions,

Cheers,

J.

[Guest guest]

> Western medicine, IMHO, is very Yang--strong medicine, quick

> results, while Eastern med is Yin by nature--receptive & subtle,

> so that they compliment each other pretty well. Even the way they

> percieve symptoms are complimentary (to a point) rather than

> competitive: Chinese med has no easy answers for some " big

> problems " and Western med doesn't even percieve some of the

> things that are simple to treat in the chinese scheme of things.

>

> And stretching a bit: Western med seems to have developed in

> an environment of " excess " and addresses such things, while

> Chinese med has extensive tools for dealing with " deficiency. "

 

 

Yes, I think on the whole that is very much so! The deficiency pattern my

horse has, which has been visible since he was born, is not even recognised

in western medicine until, after years of imbalance, a tumour forms and

'excess' becomes pernamently locked on.

 

Jackie