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It seems to me that the western approach to HIV and AIDS is similar to its approach on cancer, common cold or flu. It focuses on identifying the specific virus that "causes" the illness and finding ways to kill them without damaging the rest of our body. However this kind of strategy faces the problem of HIV viruses mutating and adapting to the medications. It seems that as long as HIV viruses are able to mutate and adapt we can never find the "cure" for AIDS just like we cannot find a cure for common cold or flu.
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Perhaps we should find the "cure" of HIV viruses in the sense of helping the body "push" or "flush" out the viruses without killing them. This is TCM's general strategies for for treating common cold and flu. The upside of this strategy is that if we are not killing the viruses then they have less incentive to mutate and adapt.
Virus changes its form pretty fast. We need new flu shot every year, but not for HIV
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