Homeopathy and Chinese medicine are entirely different things and heart disease only slightly outweighs cancer deaths in the US.
I have no expertise in this area, but I have a daughter that has a fairly high position in the medical division of Johnson& Johnson worldwide. More specific in the Preclinical Research and Development. She works mainly in the US and in Europe. And when we occasionally speak about here job I am always surprised how carefull and prudent she is with statements like: this or that works.
As well she should be. Science not not prove but establishes correlation...there is always doubt, especially when it comes to something as complex human functioning.
Interesting reading, but I don't believe everything I read. PubMed also published "studies" on the magical efficacy of goji juice in the treatment of all manner of conditions. You will recall goji was a big multi-marketing ploy in its day spearheaded by a quack. PubMed is not immune to publishing studies that combine a mix of fraud and poor science. Let me ask you. If you were to find yourself diagnosed with cancer, which direction would you likely take?
Be aware of the fact that the pharmaceutical industry is geared up to make profits - NOT CURE YOU ! It matters to them that the huge market for pills and potions they supply as expensively as the market will bear is kept wanting more. They don't want everyone miraculously cured or they are out of business, That's Capitalism at it's ugliest.
Goji juice is healthy but hardly a panacea...fad de jour. If I developed cancer, I would explore all options but would have chemo down the list. Another question is what causes cancer and can lifestyle and healthy practices prevent it. The Chinese consider a physician who has to cure a disease mediocre, the excellent one has patients who don't get ill. Not necessarily a practical idea but philosophically interesting. Their medicine is four thousand years old, dating back to the Yellow Emperor who wrote a medical text...very interesting read if you can find a translation. As to the research, there is plenty out there to study.
Certainly in the boardrooms if not the research labs but yep, can make a lot more money synthesizing and patenting a drug than selling the natural substance on which it is based.
I agree that an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure, so no argument there. But we'll have to agree to disagree on the rest of it. Out of curiosity, what exactly is the treatment protocol for qigong? What does the Q-Doctor do, exactly?
Steve Jobs, multi billionnaire, got cancer. Inspite of ALL his wealth, could not get anybody who could cure him to do so.
The concept is the organism is out of balance which causes disease, for example if one has a kidney infection, the first question asked is what caused the infection and secondarily to treat the infection, that is if the cause is not addressed, the infection may reoccur. The natural state of the body is to be healthy and normally functioning. I don't have time for a qi lecture here but if you have a genuine interest, I can refer you to some material.