home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
- Newsgroups: misc.health.alternative
- Path: sparky!uunet!haven.umd.edu!darwin.sura.net!spool.mu.edu!umn.edu!csus.edu!netcom.com!kaminski
- From: kaminski@netcom.com (Peter Kaminski)
- Subject: Re: TCM
- Message-ID: <1992Dec22.162221.6324@netcom.com>
- Organization: The Information Deli - via Netcom / San Jose, California
- References: <BzMxJJ.KuF.1@cs.cmu.edu>
- Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 16:22:21 GMT
- Lines: 14
-
- In <BzMxJJ.KuF.1@cs.cmu.edu> cycy+@cs.cmu.edu (Cowboy) writes:
-
- >As a start, I want to point out the accupunture is a technique of Traditional
- >Chinese Medicine, not separate from it.
-
- Point well taken, though it has found a life of its own (for better or
- worse) in the West, both in practice and research.
-
- >...and I believe it is the oldest medical system in existence.
-
- Ayurveda and traditional Arabic medicine are also very old, though I don't
- have any hard references here about exactly how old they are.
-
- Pete
-