Guest guest Posted August 27, 2000 Report Share Posted August 27, 2000 Alon, et. al. While I have been taking the largely classicist side in this debate, I wanted to share my vision of medicine in the future. I envision the eventual demise of both TCM and modern medicine as they now exist, to be replaced by a holistic integrative medicine. This integrative medicine will be essentially a bian zheng style biomedicine (but it will not use TCM jargon at all). I certainly do not envision a return to low tech preindustrial lifestyles. Modern research is already beginning to use the human genome as the basis for such a bian zheng biomedicine. TCM has much to offer to this evolution, but I think it requires two things, at least: 1. rigorous study of the classical foundations; otherwise we have nothing to offer them. 2. rigorous study of modern science, especially cutting edge ideas, like systems science and chaos, but also more mundane stuff like biochemistry (my undergrad is in Bio, excuse my bias) Conversely, we need to steer clear of pseudoscience. I recently saw acupuncture described as " a quantum hyperdimensional modality " . What the hell does this gibberish mean? People who actually study modern biology know there are both holistic and reductionistic aspects to it. People who do not study biology deeply do not penetrate to the holistic level. They are left with the impression that biology is reductionistic and turned to half baked ideas called " energy medicine " , borrowing terms from physics that make almost all physicists wince (with the obvious exception of new age marketeers like Capra). -- Chinese Herbal Medicine (503) 771-9599 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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