Hello Taijicheng

Are the Yin and Yang the north and south of two magnetic fields ?.

Im just reading a book by Michio Kushi called “Your face never lies” written in the seventies. I find this to be a truely interesting field. In the book Michio Kushi tends to use general terms though there is much to be found online, I am only beggining to understand what invaluable practice Oriental Diagnosis is.

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Well, it’s like in science there’re lots of theories that can’t be explained. Same with Chinese medicine, it only works, but cannot be explained using our current amount of knowledge of science.
Normally I treat Chinese medicines as models. Like in science there are lots of models to explain some phenomenons.

I thought this was the best video to explain the basics for TCM! I enjoyed it… I am a first year student of TCM, and have just learned this info in the class room setting. I’m really disturbed to see the number of people posting such negative comments surrounding this subject. This is a practice that is supposed to bring harmony and peace to the individual. I hope one day those negative bloggers will be able to experience “enlightenment” Thumbs up to “Quackery”!!

“When the fool hears the Tao he laughs.
If he didn’t laugh it wouldn’t be the Tao.”
-Lao Tzu

The reason it’s called “alternative medicine” is that if it worked, it’d just be called medicine.

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Very interesting.

it helps foreign people learn and understand more about traditional chinese medicine and underlying theories.

Ummm….it’s only called ‘alternative’ from the perspective from countries dominated by Western Medicine…’alternative’ doesn’t describe TCMs potential for accurate diagnosis and treatment, nor does it assess TCMs scientific merits. It merely positions TCM (among other medical traditions) SOCIALLY – TCM is an alternative to the dominant medical system.

As a Naturopathy student I find TCM valuable as a diagnostic tool which indicates areas in the body requiring treatment.

Junosdaughter. Your response to archipankrator is correct but you diction is far too complicated for the idiot you’re talking to.If you want to get your point across, speak to him as you would to a child.

Bravo! Bravo! Beverly Burns. You have done the world a service of highest order. Words do not describe my delight with your highly intelligent, clear and accessible presentation. Thank you x 10.

being treated by an experienced acupuncturist is indistinguishable from a NHS nurse randomly poking you with needles as far as health effects go, hth

It’s magnificently clear that you are clueless about acupuncture so one can only conclude that your rantings are a feeble racist attempt to minimize another culture’s achievements to make you feel better about your own.

you’re right, I’m 5 years old and can’t differentiate between medicine and culture

durrrrrr…

I find it highly depicable to stick to esoteric non-sense and to exploit naive people who possibly seek real help.
Alternative medicine is based on nothing.
There are no meridians.
Stop the madness.

The best anti-aging product I’ve ever seen is actually Alex Chiu’s Magnetic
Discovery. The other people are just nonsense.

How do you know there are no meridians? There are plenty of things in your body you cannot “see” or have any awareness of. Don’t assume that so-called “western medicine” has everything figured out either!

Maybe the reason why you couldn’t feel anything is because you can’t even feel YOUR OWN CHI. How sad….Try some qigong, yoga or taichi and try a acupuncture treatment again. Also, all because you “don’t feel anything” doesn’t mean nothing is happening. You are probably lacking “body-awareness”. You need to sit down and meditate, maybe then you would not be so ignorant.

Peace Be With You

According to all my friends and science, there are no meridians. I trust science, and I love empirism and its direction. Of course western medicine,as you call it,has not everything figured out.But I trust this kind of medicine only.Look up science and empirism,if you don’t know what they mean.Lot more trustful approach than simplistic hokum.
Believe me, “western medicine” has found out a 1000 times more things than eso-world.

cool story hansel, maybe you could try bloodletting to balance your sanguine humour

you should know, The medical scientist and doctors who lead world medicine are majorly in favor of TraditionallChinese Medicine (TCM) and the effectives and safety of the theory and applied technique. The science is in to an extent, go do your research in journals. However the medical acupuncturist association (the board for M.D. acupuncturist in the us) doubts that a gold standard will do the medicine justice. The WHO is a strong proponent, and the ICD-10 will have codes for TCM.

Yes, politics. Another story.
But I doubt medical scientists and doctors who lead are “majorly in favor of TCM”.

Some doctors just think, if that patient is becalmed by using placebo tricks, so be it.

I never said placebo is not real.
I said people who pretend to heal everything, even severe traumas, as they say, by tapping themselves for instance, are umh… wrong, so wrong.
Evil liars, in my eyes.

It’s like the say – what I don’t understand I despise, what I despise I reject….
“All truth passes through three stages: first it is ridiculed, second it is violently opposed, third it is accepted as being self-evident.” Arthur Schopenhauer, German philosopher, (1788-1860)

It’s like the say – what I don’t understand I despise, what I despise I reject….
“All truth passes through three stages: first it is ridiculed, second it is violently opposed, third it is accepted as being self-evident.” Arthur Schopenhauer, German philosopher, (1788-1860)
P.S. – Sorry, forgot to tell you great post!

A BRIEF HISTORY OF TCM

The roots of Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) date back more than 2000 years. Its rich history tells of the many influences on its development, including the Japanese, Europeans, and the Communist revolution. The changes that followed these influences explains why both terms–Traditional Chinese Medicine and Traditional Oriental Medicine (TOM)–are seen in the literature. Although these two terms are sometimes used interchangeably, TOM generally refers to the system of Chinese medicine practiced until the early 1900s. Up until this period, Chinese medicine had witnessed great growth, but also decline, as Western influence expanded and the training of traditional medicine grew poorer and more limited.

The Communist party of China was formed under the leadership of Chairman Mao in 1928 and took over power in 1949. The Communits realized that there were little or no medical services and actively encouraged the use of traditional Chinese remedies because they were cheap, acceptable to the Chinese, and used the skills already available in the countryside. In 1940, Yang Shao proposed to “scientificize” and “popularize” Traditional Chinese Medicine. Since then, this resurgence has opened facilities in China to provide, teach, and investigate TCM. While both Western and Chinese medicine have been practiced in China since the late 1800s, the traditional Chinese approach to medicine began to grow in popularity in the West in the 1970s, when ties to China opened.

Acupuncture is the practice that most often comes to mind when thinking of Chinese medicine, but TCM represents a much broader system of medicine that includes herbs, massage, diet and exercise therapy. The underlying basis of TCM is that all of creation is born from the interdependence of two opposite principles, yin and yang (see the Eight Guiding Principles below). These two opposites are in constant motion, creating a fluctuating balance in the healthy body. Disease results when either yin or yang is in a state of prolonged excess or deficiency.

One of the body constituents is Qi (pronounced “chee”), which is the energy that gives us the ability to move, think, feel, and work. Qi circulates along a system of conduits, the principle ones being channels or meridians. There are twelve principle bilateral channels of Qi, each intimately connected with one of the viscera of the body, and each manifesting its own characteristic Qi (e.g. Liver Qi, Gallbladder Qi, etc.). When the flow of Qi becomes unbalanced through physical, emotional, or environmental insults, illness may result.

TCM practitioners are trained to view the body, mind, and spirit as one system, as opposed to Western medicine practitioners, who are taught to regard each of these elements as separate. Despite TCM’s dramatically different approach, Westerners have been drawn to its practice because of its emphasis on healing the whole person and seeking the root cause of illness. However, Westerners do often find it difficult to translate a TCM diagnosis or remedy into the western practice of medicine with which they are familiar. For example, there is no direct translation for how a TCM practitioner might explain a patient’s condition as “cool with dampness,” or an “imbalance in water,” with a need to “tonify the kidneys” or “replenish Qi”.