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Medical Forum / Diseases and Disorders / AIDS / July 2006Does TCM helps Aids
hello! I have a question. Do Traditional Chinese Medicine helps to improve the conditions of Aids patience? and Does anyone know which kind?? thank you! :D tummywarrior wrote... > hello! > > I have a question. Do Traditional Chinese Medicine helps to improve > the conditions of Aids patience? and Does anyone know which kind?? > > thank you! :D Do you really have to ask such a stupid question? While traditional Chinese herbs may have mild medicinal effects, if the effects were significant at all they would have already been proven in Western studies and would be FDA-approved medications. Since AIDS is spreading like wildfire across China, it is doubtful that traditional Chinese medicine works at all for HIV. If you think you can treat your HIV with some concoction of ginseng, rhinocerous horn, and snake gall, then you are a fool. > tummywarrior wrote... >> hello! [quoted text clipped - 13 lines] > you can treat your HIV with some concoction of ginseng, rhinocerous > horn, and snake gall, then you are a fool. One reason for AIDS spread in China has to do mostly with the unwillingness of hospitals to sterilize their instruments/needles properly. This DEFINITELY includes acupuncture needles. However, in the U.S. most acupuncturists use disposable needles -- but sadly some do not. As to herbal "treatments": I would not only agree with DDT, but would add that the practice of TCM in the US (in the treatment of HIV/AIDS) has been little more than a scam from the outset: the cookie-cutter herbal treatments have been everything traditional TCM is NOT. Worse, it is suspected that many of the "immune herbs" are horrifically immunosuppressive and have cut many lives dramatically short. Bottom line: take your money and have a good time in Las Vegas - that will elevate your immune system more than TCM will. >hello! > >I have a question. Do Traditional Chinese Medicine helps to improve >the conditions of Aids patience? and Does anyone know which kind?? It's hard to say. Some studies of things like acupuncture suggest a benefit to manage neuropathy, a condition that can arise caused by HIV or the meds used to treat it. Other botanical interventions from the Chinese tradition may help with things like hemoglobin counts. Chinese medicine is best used on an individual basis making it harder to study using western methods. Practice in China and publications in Chinese are often not translated into English, so hard to say what all may have been found there. Other studies are underway or in development. But you must realize your question is VERY broad. Can you narrow it down a bit? George M. Carter >>hello! >> [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] > Other botanical interventions from the Chinese tradition may help with > things like hemoglobin counts. Sadly, Carter is correct here - TCM has been reduced as the last resort to treat the wreckage caused by the so-called HIV drugs (neuropathy, anemia, cytopenias, liver disease, pancreatic failure, degenerations of all tissues and organ systems, mental illness - suicidal ideation, depression, etc etc). While TCM is described as a "failure" in treating HIV (for some of the reasons above), isn't it interesting how so many on this newsgroup describe these lethal drug treatments as "successes"? > Practice in China and publications in > Chinese are often not translated into English, so hard to say what all > may have been found there. Not so. Unfortunately, Mr. Carter is uninformed. > Other studies are underway or in development. As always. > But you must realize your question is VERY broad. Can you narrow it > down a bit? Would it matter? >> Practice in China and publications in >> Chinese are often not translated into English, so hard to say what all >> may have been found there. > >Not so. Unfortunately, Mr. Carter is uninformed. We all float in a vast sea of ignorance...in your treading of the famed seas of TCM, by all means, do enlighten us. You claim that publications in Chinese then are often translated into English? Where may these be found? >> But you must realize your question is VERY broad. Can you narrow it >> down a bit? > >Would it matter? Yes. George M. Carter |
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