Given the limits of Western medicine and the rise of Chronic and difficult conditions that could have been prevented through Chinese medicine and are effectively managed through it, experience and shared experiences have been the most important among the people. This is where legitimacy is most important. Think about it!

I am always amazed when western medicine sees a connection between organs and systems as we do in Chinese Medicine and has difficulty explaining it. For example, Skin cancer tends to metastasize to the small intestine. You know where I’m going with this because of the Zang/Fu organs and the 5 element theory. Every time they can’t explain something that materializes, we can.

The longer I study, I realize the wisdom of the 5 element theory and how it explains the relationships between the patient and the disease, its course, etc. In actuality, the Yin/Yang theory and the 5 Elements/Phases are like having two lenses of a microscope viewing the patient and condition past and present. Don’t you think?

Everyday, however, news merely confirmms what we know. In the end our patients are always most important. It would be nice to gain more authoritative standing and perhaps equal recognition. After all, different medicines have limits and strengths. However, it is very difficult to be engaged with those who need Chinese Medicine to survive, to be recognized by the WHO and diminished by the Western medicine doctors.

Life is NOT a contest. Quality is most important, after all, we have only now. Namaste

Still, research is important for the sake of dialogue, and somettimes that’s all we need for people to start taking this thing seriously.

Anyway, thanks for your comment- hope to see you here again!

I like the way you highlight the difficulties in doing the research! The most fascinating point I’ve reas, as illuminated in the 1980s by Dr. Robert Benton was that many treatments in Western medicine couldn’t be explained either.

As I read your post, I was thinking about electricity and how it was harnessed, etc. Many people couldn’t explain it then or express it, control it. Nevertheless, it was eventually understood.

What bothers me today, however, is the insistence upon testing Chinese medicine from a Western perspective including their idea of standardized and thereby compromised herbs or strictly active compounds minus the whole plant and the complimentary counterparts it contains.

So, too, the diagnostics of CCM are more complex than the ICD and are Molecular in nature. They may well someday be highlighted as molecular if some persons in medical institutions might listen to some comparative epidemiology.

The point is that CCM works. I, like Billions of people wouldn’t be alive without its intervention. Namaste