Guest guest Posted August 22, 2002 Report Share Posted August 22, 2002 Jim, > Perhaps these concepts are the central tenants of the medical > acupuncture program. Do you know offhand? Do you mean the video program / course that Joseph Helme's does? If so, I have neither attended the course nor seen the tape so I don't know. I think the urge to describe CM in concepts the dominant culture accepts is fairly wide-spread. We don't want our notions of " the way the world is " to change, so it is easier for us to squeeze CM into a familiar mold than to change our view of the world. The idea that qi, for example, is a set of concepts used to predict the outcome of human-environment interaction is a very tough sale compare with the idea that qi names an energy. Reducing a channel notion to an anatomical structure eliminates the cognitive dissonance created by the idea that something with no known physical correlate can play any role in the body. However, describing the same channel notion as a relationship in a signalling system is hardly any less dissonant for many. Bob Bob bob Paradigm Publications www.paradigm-pubs.com 44 Linden Street Robert L. Felt Brookline MA 02445 617-738-4664 --- [This E-mail scanned for viruses by Declude Virus] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted August 22, 2002 Report Share Posted August 22, 2002 , " Robert L. Felt " <bob@p...> wrote: However, describing the same > channel notion as a relationship in a signalling system is hardly any less > dissonant for many. It strikes me that Manaka believed acupuncture affected the body in different ways, depending especially on needling technique. Light so-called japanese style needling affected only the x-signal system and did not engage the neuroendrocrine system via the cardiovascular system. However deep needling did strongly impact the known physiological systems directly and actually overwhelmed the subtler x-signal system. this suggests to me that both descriptions of the mechanism of acupuncture (informational/energetic vs. physiological) are valid. Is this another example of the blind men grasping the elephant? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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