Debate: western medicine VS. Eastern medicine |
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Debate: western medicine VS. Eastern medicine |
 Sep 5 2006, 09:54 AM
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AF Supreme  Group: Members Posts: 17,884 Joined: 12-June 04 From: Hawai'i  |
QUOTE(tinman01 @ Sep 5 2006, 09:46 AM) [snapback]2261647[/snapback] You must go to visit her flip man, Get some of that milk and carry it into battle. Or use it yourself on your aching ballics from dealing with whiners all day long. Please share with me the results after a 6 month test.  oh my oh my. i'd buy one of those wooden dildos and slap a b!tch who complains. but honeslty jim, i'd rather bring her assistant with me. |
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Sep 5 2006, 10:52 AM
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AF Guru  Group: Members Posts: 4,239 Joined: 11-February 06 From: ETERNAL NOVAH ;) |
QUOTE(flipcombatmedic @ Sep 5 2006, 10:54 AM) [snapback]2261797[/snapback] oh my oh my. i'd buy one of those wooden dildos and slap a b!tch who complains. but honeslty jim, i'd rather bring her assistant with me. LOL fair enough, you can have her magic dildo |
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Sep 6 2006, 08:16 AM
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AF Geek  Group: Members Posts: 119 Joined: 1-February 06 |
Medicine shouldn't be a competition as to "which is superior" but rather, which treatment would provide the best means to treating an individual dealing with an ailment.
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Sep 9 2006, 05:17 PM
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AF Fiend  Group: Members Posts: 305 Joined: 21-July 06 |
Both are helpful.
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Sep 15 2006, 04:13 AM
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AF Fan  Group: Members Posts: 33 Joined: 15-September 06 |
Discussing whether western medicine or eastern medicine is better...
Western medicine is very reductionist; that is, they identify the problems as location-specific and try to cure from there. For example, "My stomach hurts" --> stomach examination --> Ulcer! --> medicine for stomach ulcer. Eastern medicine is very holistic; that is, they tend to think that the diseases and pains are an unbalance to the body's equilibrium. For example, "My stomach hurts" --> pulse/pressure examination --> Too much stress = unbalanced body!--> medicine/treatment to relieve stress and restore the balance. It's like the old debates between the Cnidians and Hippocratics back in the good old Greece. Though, interestingly enough, it was the Cnidians who were the reductionist while Hippocratics who were holistic. So, which is better? In emergency medicine and surgical technology, Western medicine is by far superior to eastern medicine. Understandably so, since the reductionist attitude fits well with such fields. If you just got into a car crash and your arm is 6 feet in front of you, you're going to want to go to an M.D. In everything else, Eastern medicine dominates the field. Western medicine's response to things like migrane, nausea, arthritis, or even stomach ulcer is shockingly remedial. All the "new" and "exciting" advances in pharmaceutical industries are laughable; they're just recreating the same old, same old (kinda like Hollywood  ). And of course, this is coming from an aspiring pre-med student who's going to become a M.D. (or at least hopefully). I believe, like many doctors, med students, and pre-med students, that eventually (within this century if anything else) the two fields will merge into one practice. |
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Sep 15 2006, 03:37 PM
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AF Guru Group: Members Posts: 4,604 Joined: 23-April 06 |
QUOTE(Darth Lin @ Aug 31 2006, 06:10 PM) [snapback]2242263[/snapback] I bump into this guy who told me that western medicine is superior than eastern medicine (as in terms of Chinese herbal stuff) True or false? Debate and discuss Let me clarify something. Are you comparing western herbalism to eastern herbalism? Or are you comparing MODERN western medicine to tradtional eastern medicine???? |
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Sep 16 2006, 12:09 AM
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AF Addict  Group: Members Posts: 791 Joined: 31-August 06 |
i normally go for the first one
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Sep 18 2006, 02:05 PM
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AF Pro  Group: Members Posts: 2,628 Joined: 4-October 05 |
QUOTE(Suijen @ Aug 31 2006, 08:40 PM) [snapback]2242689[/snapback] A lot of Eastern medicine does work. But a hell lot of it doesn't. We Chinese don't have anything that could cure cancer, but modern medicine does. what? they have a cure for cancer now? when did this happen?
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Sep 21 2006, 10:30 AM
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AF Elite  Group: Members Posts: 8,186 Joined: 22-October 05 From: Britannian Empire |
QUOTE(Henry123 @ Sep 15 2006, 09:37 PM) [snapback]2297192[/snapback] Let me clarify something. Are you comparing western herbalism to eastern herbalism? Or are you comparing MODERN western medicine to tradtional eastern medicine???? That's what I was thinking. Traditional Eastern medicine was more advanced than traditional Western medicine but over the last several centuries, Western medicine has overtook Eastern medicine. Eastern medicine hasn't really advanced for centuries, so I don't see how it can be compared to modern Western medicine. |
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Oct 6 2006, 05:30 PM
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AF Pro Group: Members Posts: 2,999 Joined: 5-April 06 From: North Pole |
QUOTE(Suijen @ Aug 31 2006, 08:40 PM) [snapback]2242689[/snapback] A lot of Eastern medicine does work. But a hell lot of it doesn't. We Chinese don't have anything that could cure cancer, but modern medicine does. Chinese Herbal Medicine can cure cancer but you have find the right doctor. |
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Feb 7 2012, 07:33 PM
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