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Their limitations are greater because they do not
have the experiences to see and understand their
current limitations.
Medicine is the same way. Conventional
medicine can do some amazing things (like certain
teenagers) and it has helped many, many people.
However,conventional medicine has only been
around 100 – 200 years. It still follows the “One
cause (A specific medical problem)/ one drug
philosophy.
Chinese Medicine has been in existence at least
2500 years. This has given this form of medicine a
longer period or time and more experience in
understanding and dealing with difficult medical
issues especially those that are due to many factors
contributing to a medical problem. The epitome of
this is the herbal medicine where, over thousands
of years, the doctors learned how to combine a
number of herbs (anywhere from 4 – 20 herbs) to
treat all the factors contributing to the problem
while keeping any side effects to a minimum.
To effectively treat such problems, however, one
must be realistic. If the problem does not have an
overt cause, it has probably been developing in the
