Posted on March 27, 2008 by Yael
The success of the first post we made on Chinese Medicine links encouraged us to write another post on more links we find worth mentioning for various reasons.
Please note that the numbers are just to make it easier to count to 10. This isn’t a rating of any sort.
1. The Journal of Chinese Medicine- this is one of the best journals I read about CM. Peter Deadman is doing a wonderfully important job with this journal and publication. You will find that the website has a lot to do with selling different products, but there are also interesting articles you can download for free, and the website itself is beautifully designed. Note it.
Posted on March 16, 2008 by Yael
Well, it was just a matter of time until I wrote something about Facebook.
What a webiste, eh? Seems like the whole world is on it!
I decided to see if there’s anything good for the CM community. There are many people who practice or study CM that are on FB, but what I’m going to write about are the groups. Many groups to write about so let’s get started:
Chinese Medicine & Acupuncture: counting 138 members from around the world, mainly with updates and an interesting video of Peter Deadman. Note it.
Posted on March 13, 2008 by Yael
Chinese Medicine Notes aims to bring you information of all kinds- links, research, personal thoughts, book reviews (coming soon), and now we are happy to bring you a job board with offers that just might help you start or go on with your career.
If you are looking for people to work for you, post a job offer. If you are looking for a job- just start looking, hopefully you will find what you are looking for.
I was looking for the best platform and could only find the one that you see, so apologies if you are outside the USA looking for a job, these jobs are for the US only.
Posted on March 6, 2008 by Yael
Defending Chinese Medicine- part 1 was posted at the end of December 2007.
Yeah, took me a while to get part 2 going, I know, but better late than never, you know?
The best way to go is to read part 1 and then go on to part 2, this way you will know what on earth I’m on about…
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Dr. Barrett goes on to write about a study that was healed in Germany, where they used “a fake needle”, and they concluded there’s no difference between the effects of inserting a regular acupuncture needle and a fake one.
This study has a funny smell to it, if you know what I mean, even if just because Dr. Barrett tells us so little about it.
Maybe this will be a good point in time to say that research in general, when it comes to CM, pose a bit of a problem.
Being very scientific, I always feel that they miss on testing things that are vital in CM and in the interaction between doctor-patient (practitioners included). CM is not scientific, at least in the way that Western Medicine is, and right there and then, CM has the disadvantage. Granted, there are many studies that show CM works, but do they serve us as good as we think? What about the beautiful philosophy that CM is based on, how are we going to prove that?
Under the sub-category of “Risks Exist”, we found risks that Dr. Barrett mentioned as possible in CM, but he also forgot to mention they exist in Western Medicine too- whether in a simple test or a surgery. He mentions Chinese herbs were not effective, were not approved and are not safe to use- all lies. Not only are there many studies about different Chinese herbs (an easier aspect of CM to research than acupuncture for example), but all the Chinese herbs prescribed today are legal and approved by the FDA itself (let alone TCM!). He goes on to write about all the mistakes in diagnosis and treatment that are being done by different practitioners, but fails to mention that it is another part of the learning process- just as it is in Western Medicine.
