I need help responding to these 2 post. If this could get done before midnight tonight I would appreciate it As you consider the answers posted by

I need help responding to these 2 post.  If this could get done before midnight tonight I would appreciate it

As you consider the answers posted by classmates, specifically reply to their chosen medical systems. How do their explanations and cultural connections compare to explanations and connections that you made? How similar are the social influences that shape these medical theories, and what does this tell us about the region and time period that produced them?

1) In all three schools of medicine, there was a significant focus on balance.  In the Indian school of Ayurvedic medicine, maintaining a balance between the three Doshas of kapha, vaata, and pitta was key to maintaining health or treating illness.1  Traditional Chinese Medicine, or TCM, and the Japanese Kampo that developed from it, also focuses on balance, specifically between yin and yang forces as well as the five elements.  Kampo also incorporated earlier Chinese techniques of assessing health and diagnosing illness by checking various points on the abdomen for firmness or weakness, the presence of which indicating either an excess or deficiency of a particular humor.2  It is not difficult to see why balance plays a significant role in Eastern medicine.  Duality and balance are an important part of life and faith in all three societies.  In Hinduism, there are many gods and deities rather than a regimented hierarchy with a single supreme God.  The most important gods are Brahma, Vishnu, and Shiva, representing the Creator, the Preserver, and the Destroyer, respectively3  Each fulfills its purpose, and while certain sects might revere one more than the others, they are regarded as equally important to the functioning of the universe.  Similarly, Traditional Chinese Medicine is rooted in Taoist beliefs regarding balance and the natural flow of the universe.4

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    Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) has thousounds of years behind it and consists of different practices but the most popular here in the U.S are; Chinese herbal medicine, tai-chi, and acupuncture. According to the article, TCM is not easy for research because the treatments and ideas do not correlate with the treatments of the new modern Western medicine. Basically TCM  has based its treatments and "diagnosis" on beliefs sprouted from religious ideals, cultural norms, social pressures, etc, and not so much on solid facts and scientific research. TCM has based their ancient beliefs that the human body is basically a representation of the universe in a smaller scale, "ying and yang" which is the beliefs that disease is developed from an imbalance of both opposing forces, the belief that the five elements represent the stages of human life, and Qi, a vital energy which is responsible for body change during disease. 

     Ancient Indian medicine, known as "Ayurveda", which means knowledge of life, is believed to have been born around 1500 B.C. and is based on mythology. The basic study of this medicine focused on human physical, biological, and spiritual health. Because of the medical discoveries by Ayurveda, there was a social pressure for the study of medicine in India. 

    Kampo is referred as the Chinese influenced medicine in Japan that is mainly focused on herbal influences. Before the influence of Chinese medicine, Japan mostly relied on healing through rituals and after years of non-association Japan was able to adopt Kampo and actually dug deeper than China to stabilize the practice. After being influenced into Japan, Kampo also found its way into Taiwan and to the west.