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Pastimes : SARS - what next? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Maurice Winn who wrote (336)	4/30/2003 7:34:08 AM
From: Ilaine	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1070

You're right that without knowing the basis for Chinese traditional medicines, Western doctors should be reluctant to prescribe them. But it's also true that Chinese traditional medicines - some of them, at least - work very well. Acupuncture, for example, makes no sense in Western medicine but it DOES work. I watched a film shot by Harvard Medicine School in the early 70's, which included a sequence of open-heart surgery using only acupuncture as anesthesia. The patient was awake during the procedure, sipping tea. She was lying on her side, and you could see her ribs separated and look at her innards being manipulated, and she had no pain. The US National Institute of Health is testing a Chinese herb (Thunder God Vine) for rheumatoid arthritis which appears to work. I don't intend to try it for myself because it can be toxic in too high a dose, and I don't think they've got all that worked out yet. There are so many herbal "cures" for rheumatoid arthritis! I read somewhere that when there are a lot of "cures" none of them are really cures. This is true of many cancers, and probably true of SARS. I wonder if boosting the immune system for SARS is a good idea? What if death is caused by an immune reaction? Maybe not boosting the immune system is better.