Yao Ming Traditional Chinese Medicine Cure
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Ah, so Yao Ming broke his foot and is now seeking some help from his motherland after western medicine failed. I can see it now: The sacred arts of TCM then miraculously heals Yao, giving him perfect health during the Olympic games during which he leads the Chinese National Team to the Gold Medal.
There was this article back during the Cultural Revolution about how Mao Zedong Thought cures a deaf-mute when western medicine failed, but all joking aside, I actually do believe in TCM.
I grew up using TCM, mostly in the form of herbal teas and things to balance the hot and cold ‘air’ inside my body. This is how I overcame sore throats, colds, and the chicken pox when I was sick as a kid, thus enabling me to spend more time at school learning how to speak Spanish and throw rocks at cars.
However, there was this time when I broke my finger and my parents tried to use traditional Chinese medicine to cure it. They rubbed all these ointments on there, plastered this black paste on me, and wrapped it up hoping it would get better. However, it didn’t and I ended up going to a western doctor and had a neon yellow cast on my right hand for a few months. I guess my parents aren’t exactly professionals, but there’s more. I pulled some tendon behind my right knee while running across Hong Kong island with my uncle and despite going to this old TCM master who has been practicing medicine in his local community for over forty years, I have had almost no improvement even after several treatments.
This is what my gut tells me. TCM works when you believe in it. Like I believe TCM will cure my cold, so because my belief is so damn strong, all these white blood cells multiply really bloody fast and goes off to kill all the things that cause my sickness. However, belief can’t bring someone back from death unless you’re Jesus (the original one from way back in the day, not the modern Mexican kid who happens to have that name). I mean if a finger is broken, it’s broken. It needs to be set and stuff before it gets better. Maybe after its set and stuff, TCM can help it get better faster, but until all the real stuff is done, TCM is useless. Belief can only go so far I guess, though it can be extremely powerful in certain situations, especially when the belief has over 5000 years history.
Ok, so I have no idea. I’ve never really studied biology (I fulfilled my life-science requirement by taking a Paleontology class) and I know nothing about how my body really works. But I’m listening to my gut, and as Cobert once said, the gut has more truthiness than logic or facts.
Belief is powerful. But facts are facts. A broken bone is not going to get healed (correctly) unless it is set.
God put doctors on the earth for a reason…
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“The Masked Millionaire” is some kind of bot. He doesn’t add any new insights… no wit, no nothing… If CTM is a “belief” then it’s no more valid than “God” putting doctors on Earth.
By the way you get a “Masters of Science” in CTD in many schools.
I do not believe this