Comments on: Does Traditional Chinese Medicine work

By: David Bradley

David Bradley — Thu, 10 Mar 2011 08:35:33 +0000

@Josh You’re right, it’s 99% quackery and 1% luck.

By: josh

josh — Wed, 09 Mar 2011 22:06:19 +0000

i’m sorry but i know little on the topic of medicene, not due to ignorance but to lack of time to attain sufficent knowledge to have any degree of understanding…BUT surely if TCMs did cure the different illnesses they claim to, then why aren’t they widley renowned throughout the MEDCs of the world, where modern medicene is leading, and only in a developing country, China, which although does have a large developed “hub” it is still largely a rural aimed country. This brings me onto the point that most of China’s population is still living in a more similar way of life to than that of what we lived say 300 years ago, so consequently due to lack of development in areas, they no no better/alternative, and that most of the TCM is down to mythology.
A point mentioned earlier in this discussion is, i believe a very important one, that there is no data on success rates for the types of methods that TCM uses and there are no rich TCM practitioners, surely if these cures worked they would be wide spread, just like other things that helped the human race advance such as cancer treatment or internet

By: David Bradley

David Bradley — Wed, 09 Feb 2011 07:30:31 +0000

@Peter The vaccination you tell me your daughter had in hospital is not TCM. More to the point, this is a poorly described anecdote, not evidence.

By: peter

peter — Wed, 09 Feb 2011 00:26:49 +0000

i come from China, my wife and father-in- law are all TCM doctor, according to my own experience , tcm really works .take my daughter for example , 3 years since her birth,except she come to the world and take vaccine injection in hospital , all her illness is cured by my father-in- law using TCM. in terms of medical cost ,my baby spend around 1 10th that of her own age children employing western medicine .what i take most pride in is the truth that my daughter does not take any antibiotics, she stay away from side effect of antibiotics .

By: David Bradley

David Bradley — Fri, 03 Dec 2010 17:25:53 +0000

Pills and drugs?

By: Dr Risk

Dr Risk — Fri, 03 Dec 2010 16:43:46 +0000

Definitely I’m a firm believer that traditional Chinese medicine works, most pills and drugs usually are sedatives that don’t cure but only sedate the affected area and their abuse can damage the entire body.

By: David Bradley

David Bradley — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 08:04:42 +0000

Nope, just because it’s old doesn’t mean it works. I suspect there are an awful lot of people who never did get well…do you know any rich TCM practitioners? Just a thought.

By: alternative chinese medicine

alternative chinese medicine — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 06:47:41 +0000

Traditional Chinese Medicine was in use from ancient days itself. It’s the ancient holistic medical system and was in practice for thousands of years. It’s also interesting to know that TCM doctors were paid if & only their patients remained well enough. Therefore we can definitely trust upon Chinese Medicines for certain treatments.

By: David Bradley

David Bradley — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 16:51:20 +0000

I'm a firm believer in evidence-based medicine. There is no evidence for the notion of detox. If anything adding herbal remedies, TCM, Ayurveda or otherwise) to your diet will increase toxins in your live, bloodstream etc because these will simply add to the weight of biochemical processing that your liver and kidneys need to do. Moreover, there is evidence that certain so-called "natural remedies" contain toxic heavy metals and other poisons.

By: GABRIELA

GABRIELA — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 16:32:28 +0000

my husband is planing to start to use chinese medicine, he just went to a chinese center where he saw a ‘doctor’ and told him that his back pain, and he is tired, becouse he hasa liver or kidney problem, aparently the muscles are fine, and the doctor said that he could start a detox progam for 4 months and try herbal, and natural medicine, my husband take very seriusly but i want to research firts what do the peple say, i mean, does it have a cosecuenses or does it works.??