### science | medicine:

Chinese medicine
* Most chinese medicine uses techniques.
* approaches illness by treating causes to prevent it from recurring.
* can also decrease the side effects of synthetic hormones during an assisted cycle
  - prolong life, vitality and well-being by slowing the ageing process
  - treat acute and chronic conditions and provide preventative care
* cautions against buckwheat for individuals with spleen qi deficiency.
* describes yin as negative and yang as positive.
* emphasises the influence of the Kidneys on the uterus and fertility.
* emphasizes energy while Western medicine considers structure and function.
* harmonizes both philosophy and science.
* has a long history of successful treatment for gynecological disorders
  - very different view of foods and diet
  - no side effects
* healing tradition with long history, great sophistication and dynamism.
* helps relieve the acute attacks.
* holds that any symptom or illness imbalance in a persons energy
  - there vital force that permeates all life
* holistic medicine.
* includes acupunctures, herbal medicine and a philosophy of the body as a whole.
* incorporates centuries of experience in dealing with depression.
* indicates that a different organ system is vulnerable each season.
* interprets the body differently than Western medicine.
* is about energy
  - holistic and based on nature
  - in classifying into different categories natural phenomena
* is one of the most holistic medical systems available today
  - oldest forms of healing known to humankind
  - still very widely practiced in the East
* is the most important Chinese contribution to healthcare in the new millennium
  - oldest, professional, continually practiced, literate medicine in the world
  - research and treatment of good health
  - very successful in relieving pain, whether caused by injury or disease
  - very, very safe, far safer than Western medicine
* looks at the body as an ecosystem of checks and balances
  - entire pattern of how an organ works throughout the body
* notes that as people become elder, kidney energy decreases.
* offers self-empowerment.
* pays little regard to the physiological causes of ill-health.
* prescientific system of thought and pactic developed over thousands of years.
* product of the Chinese language.
* recognizes both internal and external causes of disease.
* regards the human body as a small-scale reflection of the cosmos.
* relies on bitter herbs to stimulate the gall bladder to produce more bile.
* says that if the energy in the body stops moving, then there is disease
  - it is heat in the lungs
* supports eating meat, and traditional medicine does as well.
* takes a holistic, patient-based approach to pain.
* teaches that illness is an imbalance in the body's chi circulation.
* treats the cause of the disorder, and Western medicine the symptom of the disorder.
* true holistic medicine based on prevention.
* uses acupuncture to adjust the flow of energy in the body
* views the body as a network of channels called meridians
  - raw velvet antler as a potent and effective natural immune booster
* works holistically.

Chiropractic medicine
* can work for mechanical issues.
* focuses on the relationship between the spinal column and the nervous system.
* involves manual and electronic manipulation and adjustment of the spine.
* is part of the healing arts.

Clinical medicine
* is divorced from preventive medicine.
* science of complex systems.