Re: Marriage is under fire!!

From: andy (news4_at_earthsong.free-online.co.uk)
Date: 08/19/04 

Date: Thu, 19 Aug 2004 22:02:36 +0100

On Thu, 19 Aug 2004 13:58:56 -0500, John Fields wrote:

> On Wed, 18 Aug 2004 14:04:19 +0100, andy
> <news4@earthsong.free-online.co.uk> wrote:
>

>>Whereas in chinese medicine, the theory exists more as a set of intuitive
>>associations between concepts like 'chi', 'the heart element', 'meridian'
>>etc, which are learnt through much more hands on, face to face methods of
>>diagnosis and treatment.
>
>>Which means it's hard to test the ideas of chinese medicine
>>scientifically, or associate those concepts with scientific ones in a
>>one-to-one way.
>
> ---
> I think it's fair to say that in Chinese medicine a body of evidence
> has been built up over the centuries which associates cause and effect
> without having access to the underlying reasons for either.
>
> That is, eons ago somebody found out, say, that if your face turns
> green and you start throwing up, pulling your leg will make you feel
> better and the green will go away. Back then nobody knew why, they
> just knew that it worked. That's to their credit. Nowadays we know
> that, say, your face turning green is caused by enviatic poisoning
> and that pulling your leg causes humourous enzyme to be released into
> your system, making the green go away, making you feel better. We
> also know that it's the homourous enzyme that does it because we can
> synthesize it, and when we do it has the same effect as pulling your
> leg, so we have a better handle on the "why" of it.
> ---

please show me the scientific evidence for this so-called humourous
enzyme.
  

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