Okay, since i am from Asia… the Protocol for gym recovery/therapy is very different from the west.
We have very few “western” chiropractors; but tonnes of Asian styled ones who pretty much do the same thing. However we also got the other qualified acupuncturists and bio mechanics people… as well as a lower form of ART people. (These guys use nerves and such to work the body and play around with all these nodes in the body)…
But what i dont really get is… when ever they see my back; they say “Angin” or “hong” (angin is Malay for AIR… Hong is chinese for AIR). And they say " Do not gym under air conditioning. Do not drink any cold water… do not sleep under the air conditioner " and such. “Do not bath after gyming. Hot or cold. Wait till you stop sweating”…
But i remember reading articles saying “bath in cold and hot water immediately after training to recover faster”.
=/ Just need the opinion of the experienced; i understand that in the east they use more primitive methods of what the west does; without much scientific data to back it up. Like the phenomenon of acupuncture or reflexology to help clear blockages in the nerve passages.
[quote]tayjeremy wrote:
Okay, since i am from Asia… the Protocol for gym recovery/therapy is very different from the west.
We have very few “western” chiropractors; but tonnes of Asian styled ones who pretty much do the same thing. However we also got the other qualified acupuncturists and bio mechanics people… as well as a lower form of ART people. (These guys use nerves and such to work the body and play around with all these nodes in the body)…
But what i dont really get is… when ever they see my back; they say “Angin” or “hong” (angin is Malay for AIR… Hong is chinese for AIR). And they say " Do not gym under air conditioning. Do not drink any cold water… do not sleep under the air conditioner " and such. “Do not bath after gyming. Hot or cold. Wait till you stop sweating”…
But i remember reading articles saying “bath in cold and hot water immediately after training to recover faster”.
=/ Just need the opinion of the experienced; i understand that in the east they use more primitive methods of what the west does; without much scientific data to back it up. Like the phenomenon of acupuncture or reflexology to help clear blockages in the nerve passages.[/quote]
Sleeping under a fan or air conditioner was once considered a risk for Bell’s Palsy (partial facial paralysis). Yes, even in the West. There are older people who can experience a heart attack if they shower using cold water too soon after training. It causes a rush of blood back to the heart. This is rare, but still a possibility.
Those people you are quoting don’t sound that off to me. They are simply using another explanation besides western medical science to describe the same things we have been.
Also, the relation of your development in that area to “air” sounds pretty logical to me. I would be surprised if there was an explanation besides the obvious.
Thanks Prof, they use this traditional method to remove it as well. Either massaging the snot out of you in some manner, or sticking needles in you so you bleed and applying some thing to suck on that area (cotton + a small glass cup… light it… and it sucks on your skin pulling out blood).
They say its to help with circulation; and removal of air. And they also smack the shit out of you as well to get the blood flowing there.
[quote]tayjeremy wrote:
Thanks Prof, they use this traditional method to remove it as well. Either massaging the snot out of you in some manner, or sticking needles in you so you bleed and applying some thing to suck on that area (cotton + a small glass cup… light it… and it sucks on your skin pulling out blood).
They say its to help with circulation; and removal of air. And they also smack the shit out of you as well to get the blood flowing there. [/quote]
Yeah…the “cure” (and whether there needs to be one) is usually what we disagree with between East and West.
I’ve looked into a bit of Chinese medicine before and there’s lots of talk of “air”, “wind”, “fire”, “damp”, etc.
So far as I can tell it’s just a different way of describing different types of ailments. A different language, if you will.
Whether it has any more (or any less) legitimacy than Western medicine is your decision to make…
Yeahp,
“Do not eat too much of this… its heaty… you must cool off your body with this food… or water…”
Too much yin and yang i’d say. but my family calls me “banana”. Yellow skin outside, white inside. hahaha.
Ni ye hui shuo zhong wen hua ma?