We love the big modalities of medicine that go into extreme detail, symptoms and reductionism (to an extent). These systems like modern TCM and Western medicine are great, they focus on disease states especially, but we like the folkie vibes of the tonics that grandmas, barefoot doctors and health nuts from time immemorable. It’s about prevention. It’s about maintaining harmony within the YinYang flows of our organs and system (we’ll repeat that word for modern medicine: Harmony). About exploring health with small, accumulating actions. That’s the medicine we like. Simple. Effective. Non reductionist.
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