----- Original Message ----- From: "himagain" <[email protected]> To: "Matthew McCann" <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, December 05, 2004 11:19 PM Subject: Re: CS>anti modern medicine - me?
> At 08:57 AM 06/12/04, Matthew wrote: > >Hi, Himagain, > > > >Mentioning chinese medicine behind the Bamboo Curtain, > >do you remember the famous text "Barefoot Doctors"? > >I think US Congess had it translated into English and > >widely distributed sometime in the 1960s. > > Hi Matthew & folks, > The term was a sorta English translation of a Maoist response to problems > of declining health in China and Mao's enthusiastic adoption of "medicine > on two legs" - the combining of Western Medicine with real medicine. > It suffered greatly from the failures of the great expectations the > peasants were given by the promotion of the Paramedic concept of "Barefoot > Doctors". > Most of the time it simply didn't work - same as in the West - and there > was violent reaction to the results of various showcase vaccination > programmes. The locals didn't read PR releases, they saw the > results........... > > However there was an English translation of the Manual used by the > Paramedics, which did have a fantastic wealth of information about herbs > and natural healing. I don't think the US Congress would have done it, > though! :-) > > There is an even more exotic form of Chinese Traditional Treatment called > roughly "Mountain Medicine". I " suffered" it some 12 years ago and got > back a great deal of thought-lost-forever functions! But it will never > catch on here, even the far more stoic Chinese didn't like it. It hurts a > lot! :-) But it also works! > > Cheers, > Himagain. Recalling the patient immediately after the massive surgery > complaining that they were hungry - hadn't been fed since the night before > ........ > > -- The Silver List is a moderated forum for discussing Colloidal Silver. Instructions for unsubscribing are posted at: http://silverlist.org To post, address your message to: [email protected] Silver List archive: http://escribe.com/health/thesilverlist/index.html Address Off-Topic messages to: [email protected] OT Archive: http://escribe.com/health/silverofftopiclist/index.html List maintainer: Mike Devour <[email protected]>
