
116: History is Not a Placebo: Chinese Medicine in America (w/Tamara Venit-Shelton)
Conspirituality
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What Do You Think of Traditional Chinese Medicine?
Lake: I think western style medical science has been very good system so your cardio vascular system or your endicrin system, but not actually very good at looking at the whole body. So i think that traditional chinese medicine, but it's always done very well, is that kind of holistic look at a human you know. For chinese the sources of disease might be systemic. It might be a problem with your heart, or might be emotional. Lake: The american medical system is reaching out and speaking to people from different cultures, and and bringing people from different culture in to the clinic and the hostibald mystifying those spaces. That seems like a really hopeful thing.
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