Why, as I dicuss many things with other martial artists, do some think they have the need to make or buy into Dit Jao or some other homemade remedy?
Isn't modern medicine good enough or far better?
Why, as I dicuss many things with other martial artists, do some think they have the need to make or buy into Dit Jao or some other homemade remedy?
Isn't modern medicine good enough or far better?
Richard Scardina
Usually, although in some cases modern medicine is "rediscovering" some old methods; "Integrative Health Care" or "Complimentary Alternative Medicine."
In most cases, though, I think it's just an attraction to the "old school" and "mysterious oriental secrets" aspect.
Just as guns are "good enough or far better" than swords for most modern purposes, yet we choose to practice classical martial arts; so too with oriental medicine.
(I keep Dit Da Jao and Tiger Balm in the medicine cabinet next to the Alieve and Neosporin, BTW.)
Yours in Budo,
---Brian---
So, having Dit Da Jao is like having a sword. The point I am making is. It is not a neccesity. It is a myth or has a taste for eccentricity, a affectation sense for the past linked to a particular subject, in this case, martial arts. This is a whimsical idea to attach to nostagic eras.
I dont see martial artists looking to boil Salix alba; Salix nigra in about 200 mls of water and create an infusion to relieve pain. In other words, make homemade aspirin.
I dont see martial artists looking to make homemade anything but the Dit Da Jao.
Richard Scardina
I make my own chiisai (sp?) but I get your point.
Chris Thomas
"While people are entitled to their illusions, they are not entitled to a limitless enjoyment of them and they are not entitled to impose them upon others."
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I want to emphasize, making, buying, or using Dit Da Jau, isnt a "bad" thing. I think it is a "fad" thing.
Richard Scardina
I don't think it's a fad per say as it is somthing that does not have an equivilant in modern medicine.
One of my instructos students (i say student, he is a 7th dan) is an orthopedic surgeon and he gives Jow that he uses to his patients. If it's good enough for him it's good enough for me.
Joe Stitz
"Black belt and white belt are the same, white belt is the beginning of technique. Black belt is the beginning of understanding. Both are beginner belts."
- Doug Perry -Hanshi, KuDan -Shorin Ryu ShorinKan
Not a matter of it being good enough. The issue is, is it really a neccesity without alternatives?
Richard Scardina
Why would it be a lower form of medicine?
George Kohler
Genbukan Kusakage dojo
Dojo-cho
I think you should look more deeply into traditional medicine. Although modern allopathic medicine has its place, traditional medicine also has a place. Allopathic methods are better for some things, but herbology, osteopathy, accupuncture, etc. are better for others.
Let's not throw out the baby with the bath water.
Yours in Budo,
---Brian---
I can agree to a certain extent. However, society is more about advance methods.
If the baby is medicine, and the advancement of, there were actually a lot of babies saved/born in modern medicine than without. Throw out the bath water, because advances are made not only in medicine, but society. Are we to practice these antiquated methods for shear vagary?
Richard Scardina
Yours in Budo,
---Brian---