Source for a CM story set in 19th-20th century

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Hi everybody, happy western new year!

I read a story a while back and I can't find it. It is painted as an historical

account of early debates between western and eastern medicine. The statement of

the CM doctors being that an inferior man (a criminal) was not in any way the

same internally as a superior man. The WM doctors, of course, asserted that both

were identical.. Upon dissection of the cadavers the internal organs all

appeared identical to the unaided eye, and WM was vindicated once again.

Anyone know this story and source?

 

I thought initially the story might have been from Fruehauf's

in Crisis, so I reviewed the article, didn't find it there, but found this one,

which I thought I'd share here:

 

 

" Most of all, this article is yet another call for respecting the art of

Oriental medicine as a science in its own right. In my opinion, it is one of the

most tragic problems of 20th century Oriental medicine that it feels compelled

to scour for legitimacy by conducting “scientific†tests that conform to the

parameters of Western medicine. To illustrate the absurdity that can spring from

this situation, I would like to relate an incident that I witnessed at the

teaching hospital of the Chengdu College of Traditional in

1990.

 

A famous doctor at the hospital was widely known for prescribing a herbal remedy

that appeared to be highly

effective in bringing about the speedy and painless delivery of babies by

first-time mothers. Expecting mothers sometimes came to the hospital from as far

as fifty miles away to obtain a prescription. After two decades of consistently

positive feedback, a local pharmaceutical company decided to produce his formula

as a patent. Before “modernisation†had become an issue, the positive

testimonies of hundreds of patients would have sufficed to get the project

started, but now new codes demanded that direct action of the herbal solution on

the uterus must first be verified in a laboratory setting. The lab director went

through great pains to exclude factors that could potentially effect the outcome

of the experiment. He put a female rabbit in a sterile incubator, stabilised the

temperature and light exposure, surgically isolated the uterus and placed it

outside of the rabbit’s abdomen, and finally injected the herbal solution

directly into the

carefully extrapolated organ. To the researcher’s surprise, nothing happened,

even when he repeated the experiment with a number of other animals. In a second

series of experiments, he injected a variety of other substances into rabbit

uteri and, after observing that some of them induced contractions,

proclaimed that they were more suitable for mass production. However, when the

newly “discovered†herbs,

which in traditional pharmacopoeias are not at all related to uterine effects,

were tested on eager mothers by the old

obstetrician, they failed to produce any clinical results. Thoroughly confused,

the managers of the company decided to withdraw from the project. "

 

( " in Crisis " Heiner Fruehauf, JCM, 1999)

 

Thanks for any help,

 

Hugo

 

 

 

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Hugo Ramiro

http://middlemedicine.wordpress.com

http://www.chinesemedicaltherapies.org

 

 

 

 

 

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swzoe2000 <sweiz

Chinese Medicine

Sunday, 4 January, 2009 13:56:51

Re: Suggestion for Great TCM Pregnancy book?

 

 

Hi Jenn,

 

If you are looking for an herbal text, I don't think there is a good one yet.

One of my

teachers, Dr. Qiu Xiao-mei, was an experienced and well known traditional

Chinese

medical obstetrician. I have translated most of her text though it is not

published yet.

The translated material is available as part of a dvd course I have taught on

the treatment

of women during pregnancy and postpartum. The translated chapters are excellent

and

full of clinically valuable techniques and case studies. It includes chapters

on morning

sickness, oppressive feelings during pregnancy, pre-eclampsia, prevention of

miscarriage,

excessive amniotic fluid, premature rupture of the placenta, postpartum

episiotomy failing

to heal, and much much more. Altogether it really is a rather complete text.

I've worked

with her methods for about 17 years and find them to be very effective. You can

download

it from the dvd. You can order the dvds here:

 

http://www.whitepin ehealingarts. com/seminars/ seminars_ distance. htm

 

Best

 

Sharon

 

Traditional_ Chinese_Medicine , " Jenn Holley "

<glam70

wrote:

>

> Hello again,

>

> I'm starting to get in quite a few pregnant women, and always feel a bit

limited in what I

can

> do for them. Any opinions on your favorite TCM Gynecological/ Pregnancy book

would

be

> greatly appreciated!

>

> Many thanks,

> Jenn Holley

>