Vegetarianism

[zoedragon]

Even regular doctors use feeling instead of seeing when they take your pulse. That was what I was talking about. Except in this case, in addition to feeling your heartbeat, he checks certain "energy pulse points".

The biggest difference I can see between eastern and western medicine is western medicine tends to treat the symptoms while eastern medicine goes after the source. In western medicine we study symptoms. You have hay fever? That's normal for this time of year, try using Benedryl. That makes you sleepy? Here use Claritin instead. An eastern medicine practitioner instead finds the source of your imbalance (this is with the assumption that an imalance is the cause) and prescribes natural items that will bring your body back into balance.

You know the saying, "they make a pill for everything." Pills to help you sleep, to help you stay awake, to make your bowel movements go faster and slower, to help you grow hair, to retard hair growth, the list goes on. So many symptoms to treat, but very little treatment of the underlying causes. I'm seeing more and more doctors embrace both eastern and western medicine, and I think it's with this approach that we can make great strides in keeping people healthy.

[Steven]

Originally Posted by zoedragon

Even regular doctors use feeling instead of seeing when they take your pulse. That was what I was talking about. Except in this case, in addition to feeling your heartbeat, he checks certain "energy pulse points".

I didn't realize that you were talking about feeling in the usual sense. If this is the case, couldn't a device be developed to test the existence of such "energy pulse points"?

Why do they believe that they are right about "imbalances" being the cause of illness?

[zoedragon]

I guess they believe it because their patients get better? I don't know, haven't studied the field myself and don't know the specifics of how it works. I just know the overall ideas behind it.

[Steven]

Originally Posted by zoedragon

I guess they believe it because their patients get better? I don't know, haven't studied the field myself and don't know the specifics of how it works. I just know the overall ideas behind it.

Possibly, but that doesn't show that "imbalances" are the cause of the problem. They seem to be treating symptoms rather than the problem. For example, if someone has a stomachache due to cancer, a placebo can stop them from feeling bad, but it won't stop the growth of the cancer.