Alternative Fuel
The price of driving a car is rising at an alarming rate. It has become very expensive to drive a car, so people are looking out for ways to save money on their fuel. Scientists are developing alternative fuels that can help not only the environment.
Alternative Fuel
Chinese Medicine isn’t only one discipline, but a mixture of several and includes therapies associated with smell and touch, amongst others. Over thousands of years, medical treatment in Eastern countries followed a rather different track to that followed nowadays in the West. In our Western culture, we do use preventative health methods, but largely we send for a a doctor or seek medical help when we’re sick, which makes perfect good sense to us. In reality, very often this is one of our problems. It inescapably means that we reserve the right to live how we like, and mistreat our selves in insufferable ways, only looking for help when our body gives us problems.
This is a strange situation. In industry, for example, we realize that machines need regular care and maintenance if they are to perform day in day out, without breaking down. We also know that a car will not carry on working reliably (and finally, not all all!) unless we check some important things things every week, and change the fluids regularly. If we topped up our tank with a blend of gasoline and water, it would soon let us know about it. All of these observations are obvious, but this is exactly how we treat our selves. We top it up with valueless foods, and don’t give it enough exercise, until it finally breaks down – ‘please help me doctor’ is the common cry. Another really common failing of modern Western medical practice is to approach the human organism and the brain’s processes as wholly different things, which as a matter of fact they are not. Chinese Medicine reflects the concept of ‘body-mind’. Neither of the two can exist in isolation, and each must be thought of in any treatment. The ideas of Yin-Yang and the energetic life force ‘ki’ are additionally crucial aspects when treating ill health in the East – these basic concepts are discussed in most French alternative health courses.
The art has many branches, such as Shiatsu, Acupuncture, Reiki, homeopathy and aromatherapy. Therapists might employ Bach Flower remedies, or oil extracts in the treatments, but usually have acupuncture or shiatsu as their main treatment. Reiki is a curious instance of one of the tools of Chinese Medicine, as it is considered a meansof channeling energy, and doesn’t genuinely have a proven reason for it’s success. The use of flowers, plants and natural things are quite traditional and well known. The all-important point to understand is that ‘Medecine Chinoise‘ is supremely preventative, rather than reactive. Wealthy men in those ancient Eastern countries, medical men were paid on a regular basis to maintain a patient’s health and stop him becoming ill, rather than attempting to make him healthy again after becoming ill. If a man became sick, then he stopped paying the doctor, which appears to be a great motivator.
