I read an article a while ago and found it was very meaningful, I would like to share with you……
Western medicine‧Chinese medicine‧Qigong
Humans live in the earth and eat grains of all kinds, how could we not get sick? When we are sick, we suffer so humans strive to avoid it. A saying “What you get, don’t get sick; what you not get, don’t get hard-up.” That is why there are lots of pharmacies in streets and hospitals are crowded.
So how can we get healed and avoid being sick? Generally, there are three gateways, Western medicine, Chinese medicine and Qigong (to practice austerities to become a Taoist immortal).
Western medicine is the most popular and main treatment in this modern world. Modern Western medicine uses anthropotomy as basic to develop a set of clinical theory and healing technique. The main therapy includes injection, prescription, operation, x-ray therapy, chemotherapy etc.. The key point is to cure your head when you have headache, cure your leg when you leg hurts. It is directed against the illness, being handled in part and relatively like machinery. Such as if we have fever, we take antipyretic or get injected; if we have inflammation, we take antibiotics; where we get cancer, we get surgery to cut and remove it.
Chinese medicine encountered prosperity then decline, and now rises again. Distinct from partial analysis and treatment of Western medicine, Chinese medicine treats human body as a whole system. Meridian principles, paths and theory of yinyang, they all emphasize entire and organic concept. Thus, it cures illness based on symptoms. Humans need to coordinate with the universe and nature. Mood and temperament can also affect health. In the classics, it said “Anger hurts liver, depression hurts spleen, fear hurts kidney.” etc. To cure illness and prevent getting ill, not just medicine only, also includes adjusting and improving our own mood and temper as well as daily lifestyle. From this point of view, it seems that Chinese medicine is superior to Western medicine.
I have a good friend who teaches in university. There was a while her period stopped and suffered from it. She saw many Western doctors who they thought it should be gynecological problem. But it still didn’t work after taking lots of medicines. Then, someone introduced her a famous old Chinese doctor who believed her intestines and stomach lack of blood causing the problem. It worked immediately after taking one dose. It looked like illness from gynecology but actually on intestines and stomach. This is how deep and brilliant of Chinese medicine.
Qigong is a new term. Its essence is to practice austerities. If there is no progress from the previous two methods, people start looking for Qigong and practicing austerities. For simple Qigong, people probably think that only practise movement and take a breath. But real practicing austerities believes that illness comes from people who did bad things in old days and have karma. Thus, if you want illness to be healed, you need to practice austerities in order to repay and remove karma. Our heart needs to be kind, be true, be generous and patient to remove illness from the root. This is the thorough treatment, of course. However, there are some people do not understand and accept it.
There was an example on internet years ago about how an American medical doctor sees patients. He used to learn Chinese medicine in China, and then went to America to learn Western medicine and after that learnt Falun Gong. The doctor left work from hospital afterwards and opened a clinic. The price list being marked was: For Western medicine – USD200 per time; For Chinese medicine – USD100 per time; For learning Qigong – USD0.
People felt strange and asked him why there were three different prices to have the same doctor seeing patients. He replied “If you take Western medicine, I need to be fully responsible for your health so I charge you full price; If you take Chinese medicine, besides prescribing to you, I also give you suggestion of improving lifestyle. I am responsible for half of your health as well as you are responsible for half of it so I charge you half price; If you would like to learn Qigong, you will be responsible for all your health so I don’t charge you anything and teach you for free.”
You see, this American doctor just exactly remarks the true significance and mystique of healing illness. Three methods, three mechanisms, three levels, advanced in order.
Dear friend, do you want to get true health? Then you really have to ponder what the doctor said.
Copied from EpochTimes.com
http://hk.epochtimes.com/11/2/10/131998.htm
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西醫‧中醫‧修煉
人在世間，日食五穀，焉能不病？病則痛、難受，所以人又極力避之，
正所謂：「有甚麼別有病，沒甚麼別沒錢。」故街上藥鋪林立，醫院擁擠。
那怎麼才能治病、防病呢？一般說來，大致有西醫、中醫和氣功(修煉)三種途徑。
西醫是當今最風行和最主要的治療方法。現代西醫以人體解剖學為基礎，發展出臨床的一套理論和治療技術，打針、吃藥、開刀、拍片、化療等主要治療方法。講的是頭疼治頭，腳疼醫腳，比較有針對性，局部處理，也比較機械。比如：發燒就吃退燒藥、打退燒針，發炎就吃抗生素，哪兒癌變了就開刀切掉它。
中醫在歷經了興盛又衰落後，現在正再度興起。區別於西醫的局部分析和治療，中醫將整個人體看作一個系統，經絡學說、子午流注圖、陰陽五行說等，都強調了整體、有機的概念。所以講究辯證施治，人要與天地、外部環境相合相配，心情、情緒也影響到健康，經典的有「怒傷肝，鬱傷脾，恐傷腎」等說法。要好病、防病，就不僅用藥物調理，還要調節、改善自身的心情、脾氣乃至生活習慣。這樣看來中醫比西醫高明。
我有一個好朋友，在大學教書，有一段時間月經停了，憋得很難受。找西醫看了多次，都認為是婦科出了問題，開了很多藥，吃了也沒用。後來有人介紹了一個有名的老中醫，老中醫看了認為是腸胃納血不足所致，一劑藥下去，立刻見效。看似是婦科的毛病，問題居然在腸胃，這正是中醫的深刻和高明之處。
氣功是新名詞，本質是修煉，用了前兩招都不行，人們就開始求助於氣功與修煉了。簡單的氣功人們覺得只要練練動作，運運氣就行了，可真正的修煉認為病是人以前做了不好的事情欠下了業力所致，所以要好病，就要修煉，要消業、還業，人心要向善，要求真，要學會寬容、忍耐等，從根上祛病。當然這也是最徹底的治病方法，不過也有些人對此不理解，不接受。
以前在網上看到一個美國醫學博士施診的例子。他在中國學過中醫，到美國又學了西醫，後來又煉起了法輪功，從醫院工作出來後，他自己開了一家診所，出診的標價是：看西醫一次200美元，看中醫一次100美元，教煉功法0美元。
別人覺得很奇怪，問他同一個醫生看病，為何三個價格。他答道：「看西醫，我要為你的健康負全部責任，就收全價；看中醫，我要開藥，還要提出改善生活習慣的建議，我為你的健康負一半責任，你也要為自己健康負一半責任，所以我收一半錢；而你要修煉，你將為你自己的健康負全部責任，所以我分文不取，免費教功。」
你看，這位美國博士醫生剛好道出了治病的真諦和奧祕，三種方法，三種機理，三個層次，依次遞升。
朋友，你想得到真正的健康嗎？那就好好想想這位博士醫生的話吧！
轉載自大紀元時報
http://hk.epochtimes.com/11/2/10/131998.htm
