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RE: Chinese Pseudoscience #1: Acupuncture 针刺 - Part 1: History
Since i am practicing acupuncture i have to say that it doesn't has to do if you believe it or not. It works.
It is not a Pseudoscience . It's working and i have many people who have cured by many health problems.
As briefly mentioned, placebo is a powerful effect and can legitimately have medical benefits. But Placebo isn't an indicator of effective medicine, only psychological significance. If acupuncture helps relieve pain via placebo, then all the power to them, but it's certainly not the acupuncture itself doing it, which I'll discuss in part 2
I am wondering many times myself about if it is a placebo or not. The results of the people I work with are amazing. Most of them do have the same reaction with you before they come to me but the results are amazing.
I believe that effective medicine is everything that causes someone to get healed. I am sure that both systems have pros and cons. It needs many years of studying and practicing in order to be an acupuncturist as the same happens for classic doctors also.
Most people in western societies know acupuncture as a system to cure allergies or quit smoking and it is understandable, because classic medicine has limits also and these two parts allergies and smoking, has a lot of profit potential.
It's very easy to under valuate a system or a thought before you spend time to learn more about it by the best teacher.
The same happens for the classic medicine also.
You can say of course "I don't believe in that so why do i have to spend a time to learn about it".
If that is true then you can't have a clear opinion about the subject.
Of course acupuncture is far more than that and I believe that is very unprofessional, even for a classic doctor to treat it as a Pseudoscience.
I'm curious, did you read the post I wrote?
:) Twice... What do you think i haven't noticed ?
No hard feelings.
It's just odd because you haven't actually countered any part of what's in the post, you just say 'it works'. If you can provide evidence i'd love to see, but you only really needed to read the title to respond with what you said - which is fine, i suppose
Well, it is no placebo. If you yourself have a problem once, go try acupuncture. You may change your mind.
I trust research, not anecdote, but thanks for the suggestion