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I've uploaded a writing to the files section (was too long for a post). I'll

provide a link in the next post and this post is the comment for the writing.

 

I'm an engineer and I think like an engineer. That's why since I've started

learning CM I've been trying to comprehend it as a coherent scientific system. I

know it is not, it's more like a compilation of arbitrary, empirically founded,

loosely connected statements.

But because of my scientific education I did start to ask questions: Why does

sadness belong to the Lungs? What is the logical connection? What is Lung at

all?

 

Of course even I started to have a 'feeling' of truth behind the words. But I

believe this truth can be exposed and expressed in a scientific manner. Without

sacrificing a bit of the power of CM (think of bad examples like " Shen/Kidney =

adrenal glands " ).

 

So I started thinking on interesting theories which would connect the statements

of CM into a strict, logical system where one thing follows from the other. I've

been investigating a hidden pattern behind a zangfu system.

 

I think the zangfu organs are multi-level concepts. For example, the Lung

functions and unbalance patterns are related to these distinct levels of the

Lung concept:

 

- the actual anatomical lung organ

- anatomical organs and functions affected by the Lung (meridian), like throat,

nose, skin

- CM's physiological and mental functions, like Lung's role in governing Qi,

housing Po

- the deepest level: some very fundamental concept of 'Lungness'

 

In the writing I uploaded I try to explore that deepest level, the hidden system

behind the zangfu. It's a hypothesis, it's a logic game around CM concepts. Read

only if you're interested playing with theories. It has no immediate clinical

consequences.

I'm especially interested in critical comments.

 

Tamas

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Hi All and Tamas:

 

 

" That's why since I've started learning CM I've been trying to comprehend it as

a coherent scientific system. I know it is not, it's more like a compilation of

arbitrary, empirically founded, loosely connected statements. "

 

Let me be the first to offer critical comment: CM is a science. It's certainly

different from western medical science but it is a science. Western science

itself is a hodgepodge of conflicting information and loosely connected (if at

all) theories (many of which are wrong). The usual example involves Newtonian

physics.

 

Thanks,

Hugo

 

________________________________

Hugo Ramiro

http://middlemedicine.wordpress.com

http://www.middlemedicine.org

 

 

 

 

 

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Tamas <knz

Chinese Traditional Medicine

Fri, 2 April, 2010 8:19:05

[Chinese Traditional Medicine] Experimental theory of the zangfu system

 

 

I've uploaded a writing to the files section (was too long for a post). I'll

provide a link in the next post and this post is the comment for the writing.

 

I'm an engineer and I think like an engineer. That's why since I've started

learning CM I've been trying to comprehend it as a coherent scientific system. I

know it is not, it's more like a compilation of arbitrary, empirically founded,

loosely connected statements.That's why since I've started learning CM I've been

trying to comprehend it as a coherent scientific system. I know it is not, it's

more like a compilation of arbitrary, empirically founded, loosely connected

statements.

But because of my scientific education I did start to ask questions: Why does

sadness belong to the Lungs? What is the logical connection? What is Lung at

all?

 

Of course even I started to have a 'feeling' of truth behind the words. But I

believe this truth can be exposed and expressed in a scientific manner. Without

sacrificing a bit of the power of CM (think of bad examples like " Shen/Kidney =

adrenal glands " ).

 

So I started thinking on interesting theories which would connect the statements

of CM into a strict, logical system where one thing follows from the other. I've

been investigating a hidden pattern behind a zangfu system.

 

I think the zangfu organs are multi-level concepts. For example, the Lung

functions and unbalance patterns are related to these distinct levels of the

Lung concept:

 

- the actual anatomical lung organ

- anatomical organs and functions affected by the Lung (meridian), like throat,

nose, skin

- CM's physiological and mental functions, like Lung's role in governing Qi,

housing Po

- the deepest level: some very fundamental concept of 'Lungness'

 

In the writing I uploaded I try to explore that deepest level, the hidden system

behind the zangfu. It's a hypothesis, it's a logic game around CM concepts. Read

only if you're interested playing with theories. It has no immediate clinical

consequences.

I'm especially interested in critical comments.

 

Tamas

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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