Complementary/Alternative Medicine: Traditional Chinese

acupuncture works if you take a pill your waiting & hoping it works (placebo effect) if your getting acupuncture you can feel it working during your consultation. the body is a pressurized vessel, by applying pressure in certain areas you release tension. go try it & you'll know....

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Big Pharma doesn't care about your health.
They care about your deseases.

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You forget that idiots exist.

hmmm how can what you say be true? oh yes you are right, but western medicine is only three years ahead of chinese, Life Expectancy for Americans 76, Life Expectancy of Chinese 73. But of course Traditional medicine is cheaper, less invasive and with no side effects. I guess its a matter of choosing the pill or the herb. I know where the herb comes from, don't know the pill.

So far it's all inconclusive study, indistinguishable from a Placebo. yeahyeahyeah I know there have been some studies that show a greater effectiveness of acupuncture but considering the level of detail people put into this scam it's not surprising that patients might be very convinced of it. You might say that the prevalence of this "TCM" is explained by its very strong placebo effect.
But hey if it makes people feel better and they're willing to spend that much money on it I'm fine with that.

May I suggest that you should refrain from throwing out comments without specifying your claims, "the great detail" that you mention is put into this is not from "people" it is, in fact, from 5000 years of trial and error as opposed to western medicine. Of course if this is making people feel better and western medicine is not, i'm fine with that as well. Take care of your logic, the placebo effect should be left inside the water pills becouse it is certainly far from something as deep as this.

Placebo - people think it'll work so it works.
TCM - works on SOME things, including things that western medicine sucks at.
Western Medicine - works on SOME things, including things that tcm sucks at.

Interesting video and chat here. I see many patients in Denver Colorado for acupuncture and accept insurance, so not sure why people think acupuncture treatment isn't covered by health insurance.

It's also important to hear what other people who have tried acupuncture have to say about if it worked for their problem.

Debra Arko Novotny
Accent On Health

It's like the say - what I don't understand I despise, what I despise I reject....
"All truth passes through three stages: first it is ridiculed, second it is violently opposed, third it is accepted as being self-evident." Arthur Schopenhauer, German philosopher, (1788-1860)

This doesn't imply that ridicule is a path to truth, some things are simply ridiculous.