| Modern Western Medicine science attempts to isolate
purely physical factors as the cause of all diseases. Germs, bugs,
bacteria, viruses, chemical compounds, and other tangible factors are
blamed for every illness. |
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| Traditional Chinese Medicine however, view many of
these "causes" as symptoms of the disease, because a certain
organ is already weak and unable to resist outside invasion, it
therefore is prone to be attacked by germs. TCM believes that
killing the germs, eliminate the immediate sympton's but is only a
matte of time before it is attacked again. |
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| Why do germs attack some people and not others? Why
do common bacterial infections invade the lungs of one patient, the
knees of another, and the bowels of a third? The reason, according
to TCM theory, is that germs gather and thrive only in weakened parts of
the body of patients with low resistance. Thus, the true causes of
diseases are those conditions, which lower a patient's resistance,
weaken certain parts of the body, and expose him to being attacked by
germs. Similarly, the true cure for disease is not simply to kill
germs only but also to counteract those conditions, which permit disease
to develop in the first place; to re-establish the body's optimum
balance of weakened organs. Germs simply cannot attack strong
healthy organs. |
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