Medicine

Chen and I started talking about medicines in china. He told me that ” China has two different kinds of people in which some of them believe in traditional medicines and some of them in western medicines.” Asking further questions about traditional he said that ” we have our own traditional medicines which a lot of people use. In rural areas, people use mostly traditional areas whereas people in urban areas don’t. He told me about a fact that how senior (old) people in china strongly believe in traditional medicines. Chinese traditional medicines are mainly herbal. He told me that” We do have people in china who go a Traditional doctor to solve their health related problems. there is something called Koro” in which Male and Female both perceive that they are losing their masculinity and Femininity respectively due to unhealthy sex. These people often visit Traditional Doctor.

Further  going on, he mentioned about syndromes which is evaluated as confrontation between pathogenic factors and body resistance. he said ” any problem’s treatment is not just based on symptoms but also the differentiation of syndromes.” One of the fact of Chinese traditional medicine is that the illness or a disease is primarily based on diagnosis and differentiation of syndromes. He also mentioned about illness “koro” as a culture bound syndromes as well as Shen kui.

Chinese Traditional treatment seems to be very different from western societies due to their practices. Psychosocial diseases or illness are very important for treatment. Chinese values in general and theories of medicine and the body in particular continue to shape the experience of illness in china.Traditional Chinese medicine seems to be majorly based on philosophical concept in the human body. As Chen mentioned about traditional model of treatment being different from others societies, because they have their own models of body which concerns about functions.