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silver_wolf101

Hooping, Concerts, and Wild Animals

Aug 08, 2010 17:27

I went to Matt's lecture last Thursday. It was all kinds of interesting and compared biomedicine (aka western medicine) to traditional medicine (homeopathy and herbalists.) Apparently there are a sizable number of individuals who will attempt traditional medicine before going for biomeds. A lot of traditional meds involve sucking, herbal ( Read more... )

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silver_wolf101 August 10 2010, 17:02:52 UTC

I'm not against traditional medicine. Far from it. However, when it comes to something serious like cancer or HIV, I say go for the biomeds. The problem is mostly that these folks don't tell the western doctors when they're on traditional meds, which can cause a lot of complications with the biomeds. Besides, the traditional healers aren't always safe about what they're doing or the information they pass along. We're talking about a country where the president actually said that he was safe from HIV because he showered after he had sex with prostitutes....but that might have been South Africa.