Herbal Temperatures/clinical trial/annoying terminiology

[Guest guest]

How can proper clinical trials be designed

if we lack a shared understanding of what

the nomenclature of the subject means?

 

Does anyone else find it ironic that in

one day's postings we read that we have

to get scientific validation, that we

don't have a clear grasp of what this

term " slightly cold " means, and that we

are annoying people with our discussions

of terminology?

 

Ken

[Guest guest]

Right on, Ken.

If we don't develop a knowledge of the technical language of Chinese

medicine, and develop a shared understanding, the biomedical validation (as

opposed to scientific, as Chinese medicine IS a science) will simply replace

the technical language, and the subject of Chinese medicine will virtually

disappear.

 

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> How can proper clinical trials be designed

> if we lack a shared understanding of what

> the nomenclature of the subject means?

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> Does anyone else find it ironic that in

> one day's postings we read that we have

> to get scientific validation, that we

> don't have a clear grasp of what this

> term " slightly cold " means, and that we

> are annoying people with our discussions

> of terminology?