Guest guest Posted September 13, 2002 Report Share Posted September 13, 2002 , " " <zrosenbe@s...> wrote: > Worsley's 'classical acupuncture' is a hybrid of Wu Wei-ping's five > phase acupuncture and homeopathic theory Don't forget the pop-psychology. Simon King Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted September 14, 2002 Report Share Posted September 14, 2002 The 'pop psychology' is another issue altogether. The problem with synchronistic theories such as five phase theory, as much as I appreciate and use it, is that you can glue all kinds of holisms onto it and invent your own theory about psychology and emotions. It then becomes more of a belief system than a medicine. Here in California, because a lot of the TCM training is very dry, many students are attracted to this stuff. I heard one teacher say that a patient of his 'was constipated because he wouldn't let go of his emotional attachments'. While in some cases there may be this kind of connection, this can easily turn into a stock-in-trade value judgement on patients that may miss the mark completely. On Friday, September 13, 2002, at 10:36 PM, dallaskinguk wrote: > , " " <zrosenbe@s...> > wrote: > > Worsley's 'classical acupuncture' is a hybrid of Wu Wei-ping's five > > phase acupuncture and homeopathic theory > > Don't forget the pop-psychology. > > Simon King > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted September 17, 2002 Report Share Posted September 17, 2002 Why don't you think it matters that physicians in different cultures have similar ideas? It certainly means a lot to me. While the importance of what is stated in Hering's Law is not a central concept in Chinese medicine as it is in homeopathy ( and I consider Chinese medicine to be a much vaster, broader field. . .it has had much more time to collect information), it is interesting, at least to me and others, that there are similar ideas in both systems. I didn't mean, however, to legitimize Dr, Worsley's adaption of the Law of Cure as having Chinese support. Clearly he adapted it directly. from homeopathy, having no apparent training in the Chinese herbal medicine tradition. On Friday, September 13, 2002, at 02:57 PM, wrote: > And it doesn't matter > whether we can find vague similarities between brief passages > from ancient chinese texts. Whatever ZZJ meant, the true > definition of hering's law is not part of TCM. It may apply here > and there, but that's not a law. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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