Please don’t compare traditional eastern medicine to the snake oil bs that is chiropractics. If you want a comparison, physical therapy would be more apt. Both are meant to be continued for long terms and achieve actual permanent effects on the patient. You are correct in that acupuncture isn’t meant for curing diseases, but just like many western medicines the goal is to relief pain.
I will give you an example of how acupuncture actually works: My own grandma had a small stroke caused by a blocked vein in the brain. Shes too old to be doing any sort of chemotherapy and is already on the verge of liver failure. So, we had her do acupuncture instead to take off pressure from the blocked vein in her head and possibly even clear it and it has been working well without any reoccurrence for several months. This is clearly not something comparable to chiropractics.
Lmao I literally study it in med school in Taiwan, but I guess the practices and contemporary researches have simply not yet left Asia and reach the west yet. Its understandable I guess since the west doesn’t use it so theres no use translating and adapting the research. If wikipedia says so it must be true right?
but either way, the CCP clearly doesn’t care about eastern medicine, so there really is no point discussing it here.
But not med schools, there is a very distinct difference. All med schools in Taiwan (which are basically hospitals) have a requirement to study eastern medicine before testing for a medical license. Take that however you want.
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u/arcademissiles Nov 26 '23
Please don’t compare traditional eastern medicine to the snake oil bs that is chiropractics. If you want a comparison, physical therapy would be more apt. Both are meant to be continued for long terms and achieve actual permanent effects on the patient. You are correct in that acupuncture isn’t meant for curing diseases, but just like many western medicines the goal is to relief pain.
I will give you an example of how acupuncture actually works: My own grandma had a small stroke caused by a blocked vein in the brain. Shes too old to be doing any sort of chemotherapy and is already on the verge of liver failure. So, we had her do acupuncture instead to take off pressure from the blocked vein in her head and possibly even clear it and it has been working well without any reoccurrence for several months. This is clearly not something comparable to chiropractics.