TCM?CM (was evidence part 2)

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on 1/18/01 9:15 AM, alonmarcus at alonmarcus wrote:

 

TCM, narrowly construed, would be the modern distillation of

theory integrated with empirical evidence, dispensing with what is

considered mere fancy. In the days of monolithic TCM, this

distillation was heavily influenced by communist directives, but by all

accounts,this has not been the case for over a decade now

>>>>Many ideas in the TCM modern literature are completely theoretical, including the differential diagnosis of Western diseases in TCM.

Alon

 

 

This is something that concerns me. . . .I wonder sometimes if the patterns listed in those textbooks that categorize by Western disease are basically arbitrarily arranging patterns to fit the disease.

 

 

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This is something that concerns me. . . .I wonder sometimes if the patterns listed in those textbooks that categorize by Western disease are basically arbitrarily arranging patterns to fit the disease

>>>More often than not.

Alon