How does traditional Chinese medicine work?

How do Chinese doctors diagnose patients? How do acupuncture and traditional Chinese medicine work?
Taken from the documentary: "Traditional Chinese Medicine" available at FirstScience.tv

Download in full from: http://firstscience.tv/chinese.htm

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• acupuncture
• chinese-medicine
• traditional
• alternative-medicine
• complimentary-medicine
• herbal-medicine
• Firstscience

[yoshii88]

That's what I thought too before. Western Medicine has a high success rate. I was very hesitant on trying Chinese Traditional Medicine but it turned out that it improved many of my issues that Western Medicine was never able to, nor even a little. Very impressing.

[justaguy230]

Just because something is 1000s of years old doesn't mean it has no use. Take for example the wheel....nothing compares to its simple ingenuity yet it proves to be an extremely effective tool. Western scientists have already proven the effective nature of accupunture, along with many other herbs in common use. That is why in some medical schools they offer a course in accupuncture and herbal medicine to be aware of their effects and of any contraindications with western medication.

[carlingnugent]

I'm trying to figure out how I feel about TCM, but this video didn't help me at all. WTF does it mean to have too much inside underneath darkness FFS?

[hogo1]

@yoshii88

your are only one person, your claims are not proven because they happened to you,

large cohort, double blind test must be conducted to conclude if these medicines do work, which they probably do not 

[lyue1996]

@mmeds11 Hahahaa! Funny one! But actually asian penis sizes are almost the same as Europeans and Americans. (But still asian penis size is a bit smaller). Did you know that when a white persons penis in erection is ling and soft, while asian penis in erection are thick and hard?

Just saying .... xD

[mmeds11]

I give you tiger penis soup. It make your penis verly big! Like 3 inches!

[tkitpoon]

This is good , I'm impress by it. Traditional Chinese Medicine takes time in healing with no side effect, unlike western medication antibiotic it do have side effect.

[xFuJai]

China for the win..!

[xFuJai]

China for the win..

[MrNthDegree]

@ClementsTom:

In addition, how justified is it that pharmaceutical companies prevent the legitimate testing of natural substances in curing ailments, simply to protect profits?

One example is the use of cannabis to cure some forms of cancer (most notably skin cancer using hemp oil topically) and relieve symptoms of MS; which is denied by pharmaceutical companies due to the inability to isolate single components which have the effect and patent modified chemical isolations.

[MrNthDegree]

@ClementsTom:

Double-blind tests have recently all come into question as placebo in many tests was never documented. In the US for instance, there is no requirement to document what placebo is (The US consumes 80% of all pharmaceuticals, despite only being 5% of the population).

It has been found that in many cases a claimed inert placebo has not been truly inert (e.g. giving diabetics sugar pills).

Those claiming double-blind is a way of proving efficacy may be wrong in their assumption