Z'ev

[Guest guest]

Z'ev: I would rather use the already huge

 

vocabulary and armentarium (thousands of herbs and points combinations)

 

in Chinese to work with patients, along with here/now communication

 

that also is well-addressed in the Chinese literature on

 

patient-physician interaction, than mix in NLP or something else.

 

Lon: I look forward to seeing you again as well. I agree whole heartedly

regarding introducing new techniques outside the scope of CM practice. However

the dilemma arises when what one is changing is not the *technology* but the

*context* in which treatment is conceptualized. I find that the cultural

assumptions of the Chinese Daoists, Buddhists, Confucianists, and Marxists,

don't

wholly address the world situation we are in today and frankly these core value

systems are losing relevance. I confine my practice to needles, herbs,

nutritional advice, and suggestions etc. However the context in which I view

treatment

is rapidly moving past the 5E, 8P, models or *any* existing model in the

medicine. Am I still practicing CM? I don't expect an answer....but I think it's

an

interesting inquiry.

[Guest guest]

I am one of the people that thinks that " ain hadash tachat hashemesh "

(there is nothing new under the sun-King Solomon), although there seems

to be quite a complexity in the possible variations. I still think the

classical models of Chinese medicine are relevant, as they are based on

natural law which has not changed since ancient times. However, I do

understand what you are talking about. The non-material consciousness

aspect of practice certainly may come from 'somewhere else' than China.

For me, it comes from the Kabbalah/Jewish perspective.

 

 

On Tuesday, August 5, 2003, at 02:52 PM, Spiritpathpress wrote:

 

> Lon: I look forward to seeing you again as well.  I agree whole

> heartedly

> regarding introducing new techniques outside the scope of CM practice.

> However

> the dilemma arises when what one is changing is not the *technology*

> but the

> *context* in which treatment is conceptualized. I find that the

> cultural

> assumptions of the Chinese Daoists, Buddhists, Confucianists, and

> Marxists, don't

> wholly address the world situation we are in today and frankly these

> core value

> systems are losing relevance. I confine my practice to needles, herbs,

> nutritional advice, and suggestions etc. However the context in which

> I view treatment

> is rapidly moving past the 5E, 8P, models or *any* existing model in

> the

> medicine. Am I still practicing CM? I don't expect an answer....but I

> think it's an

> interesting inquiry.