In herbal they classify certain items we consume as heaty or cooling.Why doesn't Western medicine accept that!
Question: In herbal they say chocolates ,dates.prawns,cuttlefish are heaty while bananas,King coconut water,milk are considered cooling to the body.
They normally advice that if you take excess of heaty stuff you have to cool the body with "coolers" say for instance dates should be taken with milk.Does the theory have any substance and why does the Western medicine frown on this.
Answers: In herbal they say chocolates ,dates.prawns,cuttlefish are heaty while bananas,King coconut water,milk are considered cooling to the body.
They normally advice that if you take excess of heaty stuff you have to cool the body with "coolers" say for instance dates should be taken with milk.Does the theory have any substance and why does the Western medicine frown on this.
Three hundred years ago, Western medicine also looked upon disease as being due to imbalances in the body. Their hypothesis was that there were four "humours" in the body: black bile, yellow bile, phlegm and blood and these needed to be balanced. Various disorders were thought to be due to an excess of one of the humours. Balance was achieved by removing which ever humour was in excess via bloodletting, laxatives, purgatives etc.
Western medicine now ascribes to a different theory of disease and looks to external organisms and internal cellular dysfunction as causes of disease. Western medicine is "evidence based" and relies on clinical trials of treatment on groups of people compared to non treatment or placebo treatment of similar groups. Herbal treatments that have been tested by clinical trial and shown to be safe and effective are accepted by Western medicine.
To save a lot of typing, simply put, it's all about money.
What Judy B is saying, is that Western medicine has learned better, and no longer believes in ridiculous old superstition. That's all.