- How do you feel about Western approaches to HIV/AIDS?
- Can TCM strengthen our Immune systems?
- What do you think of 'the deal that saved the whales'?
1.
Well, I am not really sure how to approach such a controversial and seemingly misunderstood illness. I am inclined to think that western medical and scientific approaches are trying to attack the virus (which, supposedly has never been isolated in a lab), and/or mechanically-chemically shut off the function of the infection/virus.
Whatever works. If something is working, then great. If something is not working or works just as well as a person changing their lifestyle, the relationship to themselves and their world, and the overall strength of their bodies, then why use it? Alternatives to chemical medicine appear to be cheaper than and just as effective in limiting the extent of the virus.
2.
I asked some questions on someone else's blog:
- Can the phagocytic rate really indicate an accurate measure of immune function? does a certain number of phagocytes equal a certain level of health?
- How is this determined? Through continued observation and correlation called 'science'? Haven't peoples all over the world been making careful observations for hundreds of thousands of years? What is wrong with their observations? They seem to have success with maintaining healthy immune systems...
- Is 'immune function' limited to the parts of the body we call the lymphatic and blood systems? what is the immune system and how do we measure it?
I think that TCM, in it's root form, as an intuitive and direct-observational medicine/art is capable of assisting people in experiencing their ideal state of wellness.
I am becoming less certain of what 'health' is and less interested in specific details that allopathic medicine focuses so much on. I want to feel good and I want others to feel good too. I don't need to know what levels of phagocyte are in the blood to know how I feel.
Keep the qi flowing and eat well and eat happily... that is all that is required for me to continue.
Think about this: illness is not the cause of death; simply because you have illness at the time of death does not mean that the illness caused the death. Birth causes death more than illness does...
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Save everything from capitalistic globalized greed. Save ourselves... save the whales, the fish, the sand, the waters, the trees.... all of it. I love seeing that people are realizing their true relationship to one another and the space and place we live in, on and from. Greed only begets more greed, anger, resentment, isolation, and illness. Who wants any of that?
1 comment:
I don't understand the idea of attacking our bodies to make them better. Those with HIV and AIDS suffer so much from the cocktail that seeks to destroy a virus that is so little understood. Bodies need healing not war.
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