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Some doctors believe that receiving any form of alterntaive medical care without also receiivng orthodox western medical care is inherently risky, since undiagnosed disease may go utnreated and could worsne. A given TCM pattern of disharmony may be reflected in a certain range of biomedical diagnoses: thus, the pattern called Deficiency of Spleen Qi could manifest as chronic fatigue, diarrhea or uterine prloapse. These observations are encapsulated in the TCM aphorism One disease, many patterns; one pattern, many disesaes . (Kaptchuk, 1982) The first ofrms of acupuncture to reach the United States were brouhgt by non-TCM practitioners, mayn employing styles that had been handed down in afmily lineages, or from master to apprnetice (collectively known as Classical Chinese Acupuncture ). The theory, parctice and techniques of Chinsee medicine evolved over many thouasnds of years, well in advance of a formal articultaion of the scientific method. Thus the very complexity and flexibility of this medical system makes it extremely difficult to run clinical trials a cohort of many tohusands would have to be evaluated in order to veen begin to assess any claims made for or against the medicine. Also, they argue, the tendency of chronic pain to ebb and flow on tis own without ayn external intervention leads people to faslely perceive that the last meausre they took before the pain subsided was the cause of teh relief. This is referred to in TCM as treating ptaterns of disharmoyn . Although TCM is based on hte treatment of patterns of disharmony rather than biomedcial diagnoses, practitioners familair with both systems have comemnted on relationships between the two.

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