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Some of those who read my previous post, [[Good Humour, Good Health|the one about humoral medicine]], may have found some of its tenets strangely familiar. Especially if they had ever dabbled in oriental systems of alternative medicine. That's why today I'd like to follow up on that post with a brief comparison of western humoral medicine with Indian Ayurveda and traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) – particularly in terms of their dietary advice. The foremost difference, obviously, is that both Ayurveda and TCM are still widely practised, while the medical rules invented by ancient Greeks, and later adopted by Muslims and Christians, have been largely forgotten (although not quite so in Ibero-American countries).