Traditional Chinese Medicines (TCM)

Traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) had been practiced in China for over 5000 years.  But until today, we still have no scientific basis to confirm these medicines are safe and sound. Clinical trials are expensive. Except pharmaceutical giants, who else would want to carry out the research?  Moreover, why would the pharmaceutical  giants want to allow TCM to compete with them?  However, are all the drugs which have been clinically tested  safe and effective? Have you ever heard of an illness which the Western medicine has failed but was cured with TCM? There were some cases but they were never publicized. In fact I have heard from some herb users that they need to keep those effective herbs secret because once they are known, they would become very expensive.

Many of those herbs used in TCM can be grown in your backyard. And we cannot claim a patent for any one of these herbs. This is the reason why very little research has been carried out on those herbs.

So far, I have heard of one drug used for treating coronary heart disease, had been passed by the United States Food and Drug Administration, Phase II clinical trials in 2010.

When I said 300 grams of pig’s lung, fried with 300 grams of ginger, until the ginger turns brown, could cure 100 day cough, a medical doctor disagreed with me. An honest medical doctor would not simply brush aside a claim like this. I would expect a trained medical doctor to ask whether I have any proof or whether someone had been cured of a cough by this method in the past.

For the herbs to be more effective, you need to boil them raw. The powdered forms are less effective.  TCM complements conventional treatment by building up the body resistance. It takes about a week for the body condition to improve with herbal medication. TCM focuses on the patient as a whole. For Western medicine, it is focused only on the disease. Side-effects of Western drugs are common, but for the Chinese medicines, it is almost unknown.

Pharmaceutical remedies are usually more readily available but they may not have all the answers. Now Chinese herbal formulas are also encapsulated for convenience. So this puts aside the unpleasant taste of drinking the brewed medicines. However one still needs to be aware of the dangerous herb-drug interaction. Normally it is safe to take Chinese herbs after you have taken the Western medicine for four hours.  But then you need another four hours to resume the taking of Western medicines. At the moment we have capsules of a diverse mixture of ingredients of Chinese medicines displayed at the stores. Many Chinese still prefer to home-brew the herbs. One last thing you need to know is only to buy from stores with safety standard.

In Asia, people use Thymus vulgaris to clean up the blocked arteries.  Raw and fresh Thymus vulgaris, 300 grams, are boiled with three bowls of potable water, until only one bowl of water is left in the pot. And then cool the pot down and drink the water.  It is said after taking three times, once every other day, patients confirmed the blockages were cleared.  Do your own research to confirm it.