Guest guest Posted September 16, 2003 Report Share Posted September 16, 2003 I agree. I for one never had any trouble with the fact that there is so much contradictory information in CM.I have always viewed CM as a non lab kind of science. That was/is the only way I am able to attempt to understand CM with the many twists and terns. If I would have tried to make a unified sense out of CM I would have given up long ago.That is also why I have been speaking about the limitation of " TCM " for many years, a modern attempt to due just that. >>>Since I do not speak Chinese nor have the capacity of you and others I would like to ask what are these contradictory ideas? Shang han Lun and Wen Bing? five solid organs or six? It would be interesting to read a well researched book article about contradictory concepts in Chinese medicine and or TEAM (I like the acronym Traditional East Asian Medicines...) Now I do not " believe " that there is not life after and before so call TCM... (this to me is self evident by the history of CM-TEAM) I trust the publications by Paradigm and like scholarly books although a confused and slow witted person. Waiting for Jim and Z'ev and Will and Matt and Alon to get a move on:-) BTW the following my interest some of us: - " TJ Hinrichs " <hinrichs " Discussion List " <chimed Monday, September 15, 2003 9:57 AM New book: Women in Daoism > > 11 Sep 2003 21:29:42 -0000 > Three Pines Press <www > > Three Pines Press is pleased to announce that the ground-breaking > WOMEN IN DAOISM by Catherine Despeux and Livia Kohn is now in stock > and available for immediate dispatch. To find out more about the book > that Suzanne Cahill described as " awesome " visit > http://www.threepinespress.com > > Special Offer: Buy WOMEN IN DAOISM together with Louis Komjathy's > Title Index to Daoist Collections for only $60, a savings of $10 off > the cover price. Read more at http://www.threepinespress.com > Also, I am trying to think of tasty cake receipts that my other half and I can make to sell as to maybe accelerate my book purchasing a nanomilimeter/nano seconds (patience is apparently a virtue) at least ANY IDEAS OF LIST OF COARSE most well come... Also OF LIST does anyone know what prawns on toast is in Spanish and how to make it all in Spanish Marco Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted September 17, 2003 Report Share Posted September 17, 2003 Hi Marco, I appreciate the way you have taken to the acronym, TEAM. I too like what it spells, as well as, its all embracing quality, its inclusiveness, its respect to all Oriental medical expressions and adaptations. I was thinking that maybe each acup course could have a study of TEAM. So that along side a deepening of their chosen sub branch, each student also scans the horizon to know a little about the many branches. In such a course, say 2 hours a week, every semester of the course's duration, many aspects of history, the context and the content could be built upon. For instance in terms of language, the same word in ancient Chinese could sit next to its counter part in half a dozen languages; say Korean, Japanese, several English renderings etc. And these translation could be compared within medical usage within the cultural belief systems in from which they arose. Since each concept is probably quite new to a student, adding the additional words from different languages might give other ways of seeing the concept. The final assignment in such a course might be the completion of a poster or something that works as a scafolding on which the many linages of TEAM and their inter-linkages could be shown. What the genome project of mapping the human gene pool is to geneticis, such a taperstry could be to TEAM. It could show how TEAM has grown from its roots to the more modern adaptations. Much the way a plant might grow and change when its indigenous environment has been changed. Then whilst a student may start an in-depth study with one system, we all start somewhere, a practitioner might choose to follow the different cross linkages to expand his/her knowledge. We might also reduce the perception that any one system is more powerful or correct than another. At last we might know as students and or practitioners where we stand on this great living tapestry and from there we could chart our course anywhere. However, I would make such a course have a pass by attendance each semseter as opposed to trying to learn such information. cheers Sharon - Marco Chinese Medicine Tuesday, September 16, 2003 11:07 AM Re: contradictory information in CM I agree. I for one never had any trouble with the fact that there is so much contradictory information in CM.I have always viewed CM as a non lab kind of science. That was/is the only way I am able to attempt to understand CM with the many twists and terns. If I would have tried to make a unified sense out of CM I would have given up long ago.That is also why I have been speaking about the limitation of " TCM " for many years, a modern attempt to due just that. >>>Since I do not speak Chinese nor have the capacity of you and others I would like to ask what are these contradictory ideas? Shang han Lun and Wen Bing? five solid organs or six? It would be interesting to read a well researched book article about contradictory concepts in Chinese medicine and or TEAM (I like the acronym Traditional East Asian Medicines...) Now I do not " believe " that there is not life after and before so call TCM... (this to me is self evident by the history of CM-TEAM) I trust the publications by Paradigm and like scholarly books although a confused and slow witted person. Waiting for Jim and Z'ev and Will and Matt and Alon to get a move on:-) BTW the following my interest some of us: - " TJ Hinrichs " <hinrichs " Discussion List " <chimed Monday, September 15, 2003 9:57 AM New book: Women in Daoism > > 11 Sep 2003 21:29:42 -0000 > Three Pines Press <www > > Three Pines Press is pleased to announce that the ground-breaking > WOMEN IN DAOISM by Catherine Despeux and Livia Kohn is now in stock > and available for immediate dispatch. To find out more about the book > that Suzanne Cahill described as " awesome " visit > http://www.threepinespress.com > > Special Offer: Buy WOMEN IN DAOISM together with Louis Komjathy's > Title Index to Daoist Collections for only $60, a savings of $10 off > the cover price. Read more at http://www.threepinespress.com > Also, I am trying to think of tasty cake receipts that my other half and I can make to sell as to maybe accelerate my book purchasing a nanomilimeter/nano seconds (patience is apparently a virtue) at least ANY IDEAS OF LIST OF COARSE most well come... Also OF LIST does anyone know what prawns on toast is in Spanish and how to make it all in Spanish Marco Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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