Experiments or studies which do not meet the set criteria are considered to be unscientific and therefore not useful. Therefore, scientific methodology consists of constraints based on the five physical senses, measurable data, and repeatable results.
Western medicine and the scientific method have self-selected to focus solely on biology. Of the Three Treasures the Western bio-medical system addresses only one - qi, the physical form (within the context of the Three Treasures, qi refers to the physical body itself, filled with Shen, and rooted in Jing.) For the most part set protocols exist regardless of the age or constitutional profile of the patient. Similarly Western physicians do not take a person's Jing into consideration when writing a prescription. In the Western health system the idea that, Shen, a non-tangible, non-measurable concept could have any effect on the practice of their medicine would be considered ridiculous. Shen, Qi and Jing, we are taught are the Three Treasures and must be guarded and kept in balance for a human to be healthy. Bong Dal Kim, OMD, founder of Emperor's College of Traditional Oriental Medicine, greets every incoming class with the same message: "If you want to be a superior doctor you must know your own Shen." Shen (spirit-intelligence) is a key concept in TCM and emphasized to novices immediately. Attempts to Westernize our language and use Western style studies to prove our place in the healthcare system will likely reduce our effectiveness and discredit our medicine rather than advance it.Ĭonsider this, Dr. Our peculiar professional language expresses concepts, which are necessary for accessing our theory. To remain vibrant and effective our medical system must remain rooted in the principals, discipline and language that brought it this far. It is because of this difference the methods and measurements used to prove effectiveness for bio-medicine create fatal errors when used in the application of Chinese medical theory. The Western medical system focuses much more narrowly on biology, the body.
TCM is a medical system based on Shen, Qi, and Jing, loosely translated here as mind/body/constitutional inheritance. Our system hasn't proven itself through double-blind randomized studies, but through clinical effectiveness. Now that the public and many biomedical professionals have accepted the value that acupuncture and Traditional Chinese Medicine bring to the healthcare system, it's time our profession acknowledges that TCM survived into the modern era not because we assimilated into the dominate healthcare model, but because we are different from it.
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