Decoded Science » Leslie Cohen http://www.decodedscience.com science news research theories Fri, 24 May 2013 12:43:32 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 Xiao-Ke: “Wasting and Thirsting” Disease and The TCM Treatment of Diabetes http://www.decodedscience.com/xiao-ke-wasting-and-thirsting-disease-and-the-tcm-treatment-of-diabetes/10828 http://www.decodedscience.com/xiao-ke-wasting-and-thirsting-disease-and-the-tcm-treatment-of-diabetes/10828#comments Tue, 21 Feb 2012 15:26:20 +0000 Leslie Cohen http://www.decodedscience.com/?p=10828 For thousands of years, practitioners of Traditional Chinese Medicine, or TCM, have recognized a disease which they call “wasting and thirsting” disease (xiao-ke, in Chinese). This condition corresponds to one of the subtypes of the disease known as diabetes in Western medicine. Subtypes of Xiao-Ke “Wasting and thirsting” disease is divided into three categories in TCM, [...]

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]]> http://www.decodedscience.com/xiao-ke-wasting-and-thirsting-disease-and-the-tcm-treatment-of-diabetes/10828/feed 0 TCM: Treatment and Diagnostic Methods in Traditional Chinese Medicine http://www.decodedscience.com/tcm-treatment-and-diagnostic-methods-in-traditional-chinese-medicine/10224 http://www.decodedscience.com/tcm-treatment-and-diagnostic-methods-in-traditional-chinese-medicine/10224#comments Sun, 12 Feb 2012 14:54:45 +0000 Leslie Cohen http://www.decodedscience.com/?p=10224 What distinguishes TCM, or Traditional Chinese Medicine, from other medical systems such as the Western medical establishment? Diagnosis in TCM is done by the careful measurement of the patient’s various pulses, observation of his or her general demeanor, observation of the tongue, and asking questions. This process is called “pattern recognition” or “pattern discrimination,” and [...]

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]]> http://www.decodedscience.com/tcm-treatment-and-diagnostic-methods-in-traditional-chinese-medicine/10224/feed 0 Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) Compared to Western Medicine http://www.decodedscience.com/traditional-chinese-medicine-tcm-compared-to-western-medicine/9809 http://www.decodedscience.com/traditional-chinese-medicine-tcm-compared-to-western-medicine/9809#comments Wed, 25 Jan 2012 23:20:36 +0000 Leslie Cohen http://www.decodedscience.com/?p=9809 What is Chinese Medicine? How does it compare with conventional Western medicine? Why should anyone be interested in it? Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) and conventional Western medicine have co-existed for several thousand years with little contact or cooperation until recently. Each has evolved, and is significantly different today from what it was like even a [...]

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