Oriental Medicine

Since human have been living on the earth, Medication has been one of the most important part of our life. Each culture has their own traditional way to heal injuries and manage their health. The healers could be priests, philosopher or gods.  

Nowadays western medicine has been incredibly developed. We depend on science-based medicine. If people get injured or sick, they go to a hospital and doctors would consider how they can cure the patients’ problem. We’re usually provided some drugs or got some treatments from doctors. In the most of cases, patients could be better after the medication. And also we don’t really doubt about it because there are thousands of science-based evidences. Western medicine is no longer a traditional medicine of Europe but of the world.

However, what about the other ethnic traditional medicine, such as oriental medicine? Against Western way, oriental one thinks about the balance of homeopathy. They use acupuncture, chiropractic, aromatherapy or traditional Chinese medicine. Sometimes it’s called alternative medicine because it can make side-effects and there are much less scientific evidences. So those alternative medications are sometimes rated low. But i think that is because scientists have spend less time to proof it and enough evidence hasn’t been shown yet. It would be really interesting for me when oriental medicine become one part of our life someday.