authorities of CM...was - The Alon-Ken debate

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> Let me pose a question to you as well as to

> the rest of the members of this list.

>

> Who are the authorities of Chinese medicine

> in the West? And how did they come to be considered authorities?

>

In reference to the above questions I do not believe that because someone

can & does translate and write a book... that it makes them in authority.

Reminds me of the Bible... in all its translations, and all that!

Personally I would like to see more books written about Physician's

practicing in the states, what works and what does not. Yes indeed reading

and studying the Shang Han Lun, Qin Bo Wei, Treatise of Spleen & Stomach,

Chinese Materia Medica... to name a few is great and gives me a plethora of

information, a wonderful foundation and direction to build on. I see the

authors of those books as guides certainly not the end all. What I hope and

look forward to seeing is more published clinical case studies, as well as

controlled scientific work. However, even then I will not see the those

writers, as people who have authority over CM in the West!

 

Recently I attended a seminar with Dr. Qingcai Zhang and he presented the

idea of Modern . This idea is resonating well with me. We

were given his book Healing Hepatitis C with Modern and I

really like how it integrates Western & together!

 

Having looked up authority in a dictionary:

1. power or right to act or command; 2. power to act for another; 3.

influence commanding respect; 4. expert; 5. quotation or opinion cited as

proof; 6. agency or cooperation established by government to administer a

public service and expected to be self-supporting; 7.the authorities

government officials.

 

If you mean authority in relation to number 4 " expert " I see the experts

being the ones who actually wrote the book, not the translators. I also see

the experts being the ones who are publishing their clinical experiences!

 

Teresa

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In reference to the above questions I do not believe that because someonecan & does translate and write a book... that it makes them in authority.Reminds me of the Bible... in all its translations, and all that!Personally I would like to see more books written about Physician'spracticing in the states, what works and what does not. Yes indeed readingand studying the Shang Han Lun, Qin Bo Wei, Treatise of Spleen & Stomach,Chinese Materia Medica... to name a few is great and gives me a plethora ofinformation, a wonderful foundation and direction to build on. I see theauthors of those books as guides certainly not the end all. What I hope andlook forward to seeing is more published clinical case studies, as well ascontrolled scientific work. However, even then I will not see the thosewriters, as people who have authority over CM in the West!>>>>>>I could not agree more

Alon