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This article about using stem stells from placentas to help RA is interesting in itself, but the choice of words was intriguing, too:

"Rheumatoid arthritis, multiple sclerosis, and some forms of cancer, are amongst the serious and painful diseases for which mainstream physicians have no solutions."

What is the author trying to say, I wonder, by specifying mainstream physicians have no solutions? Does he mean to imply there might be better solutions offered outside of the mainstream? I am somewhat inlcined to agree with that, although for myslef I favour a mixed approach combining mainstream and alternative pathies.




i suspect that the author was just revealing his anti mainstream prejudice by that lineIt's interesting that you label it as a prejudice rather than a belief. I think you have just revealed your prejudice against alternative remedies, haha!

interesting article. I think by mainstream the author meant general md’s, and that rd's have better outcomes and abilities because it is their specialty and they have more resources to offer their pt’s  

My concern is that it's a PR Newswire article - and it really doesn't go that in depth.  His office is located in a hole of an area in Livonia. 

Still - some of the stem cell stuff is going to help us. 

And I'm all for 'alternative'. 

;-)

Pip

I took care of a practitioner of asian medicine the other day. Before I had
even introduced myself (as his nurse), he informed me of what was wrong
with me. He told me I had kidney problems and a my liver was our of
whack. Well, my last labs showed a kidney problem and I have had elevated
liver function just recently. How would he have known that? I asked him
and he told me he looked at my mouth, nose and eyes. I thought it was
interesting.

"I think you have just revealed your prejudice against alternative remedies, haha! "

if thats what you believe its a pretty stupid conclusion.

i used the word prejudice because that whole article struck me as resembling a multi level marketing testimonial

Hey Buckeye, there's a chip on your shoulder!

Yep, the more I see my Traditional Chinese Medicine practitioner the more I'm thinking there's something to it. The thing is, I appreciate western medicine for what it'e worth, but I'm thinking they really don't know any more than the alternative practioneers. It's just the approach they've decided to take. I'm open to anything that works.

Pip, I didn't notice it was a PR article. I just thought it was interesting. Thanks for pointing that out!

Hi Gimpy,

I'm a newbie on this board and enjoying the info and banter from everyone.  I too saw a Chinese Medical practitioner and had the same experience you did.  I would continue with his therapy, but not insured and each visit was 0.00, more than I could afford. But, he helped me with a lot of allergies and inflammation. Tonics and tincture's and some herbs.  When I would return to his office the following week, he would run his tests, and say "told you not to eat those peanuts." and damn, I had forgotten all about that snickers bar.  Eastern medicine and western medicine can work together. An Eastern practitioner would never suggest that a patient not use western medicine.  I was so toxic and desperate for help. I would go back in a second.  I have found Western Medicine less open to other possibilities and that's unfortunate for the patient.

Judy, yeah, it's kind of wild but I know SOMETHING is happening with my
Traditional Chinese Medicine, I'm just not sure what. I know something is
happening because even though I'm mostly just passively lying there I
always want to fall asleep when I'm done, and my BF pointed out that I'm
always having that and some other response to each session. It's amazing
what my TCMP knows.

I have been chonicling my experience with TCM on this board---it you're
interested, search for "Jedi Mind Tricks". That's what I call the method she
uses on me (it's really Jaffe-Mellor Technique---"JMT}). She has all kinds
of methods in her bag which I know because someone else I know went
to her for some completely different reason and she took a completely
different approach.

I'm really lucky that my extended insurance pays for most of it. In fact,
that's mostly why I went. I'm doing well on my antibiotic protocol therapy
but I thought, hey, I have this benefit so it will only cost me a few dollars
and some time to check it out. I had no idea what i was getting into but
I'm so far glad I'm doing it, and I really like my TCMP. She's one of those
deeply intuitive people it's a rare treat to meet.

Between AP and Jedi Mind Tricks I'm feeling pretty good.



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