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A word of warning, if you will... Some years ago, I ran a company in Bangkok. One of my employees was an administrative assistant named Ae. Ae's mother was dying of cancer. The cancer had spread beyond hope of a cure and it was only a matter of time... One day, Ae told me about a monk who had devised a potion that would cure cancer. He claimed a number of successes. But his potion would cost Ae about 2 month's wages. Ae asked me my opinion. I told her that if the monk had really found a cure for cancer, did she not think that the world would know about it and the medical establishment would be investigating it. I suggested she should spend the money on something else to help comfort her mother on her last days. Ae felt that even if the odds were very long, it was better than nothing. She bought the potion, gave it to her mother. And, of course, her mother died of cancer not long afterwards. And Ae had spent a lot of money and had raised her hopes on what was clearly a hopeless prospect. Chinese medine has developed some interesting stuff. But nothing magical. Hospitals in China operate very much like hospitals in America or Europe or Thailand - and use the same medicines. At best Chinese medicines might ease some symptoms. But there are no magic cures. Instead of spending time and money chasing after such a cure, why not spend the money on buying yourself or someone you love something special? I expect the feel good factor there would do just as much good as any Asian medicine you will find. Jeffrey Amanda Phillips wrote: >Anybody got any more specific information on how non-European medicine can >help ? > >Aplogies if this has already been covered and I missed it, but even if >there's only a one in a million chance of something useful, I think I'll have a >rummage. > >cheers, everyone. > >Amanda. > >---------------------------------------------------------------------- >To sign-off Parkinsn send a message to: mailto:[log in to unmask] >In the body of the message put: signoff parkinsn > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- To sign-off Parkinsn send a message to: mailto:[log in to unmask] In the body of the message put: signoff parkinsn