Guest guest Posted March 19, 2004 Report Share Posted March 19, 2004 Is TCM a COMPLETE system? David Mail - More reliable, more storage, less spam Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted March 19, 2004 Report Share Posted March 19, 2004 Hi David, I think this is a very important question that I have been pondering for a while. The short answer is yes, and I believe because it is, it is different than almost every other CAM therapy. I first started pondering this when one of my supervisors in medical school asked me a question I didn't know the answer to. When I said I didn't know, he responded by saying to think back to " first principles. " I had heard this term quite a lot, but never understood it. After much contemplation and asking of many questions, I figured out that first principles meant the ability to treat something that the practitioner has never seen before. For example, even if the cause of a fever in unknown, a WM practitioner still knows to assess the vital signs to determine severity and to recommend plenty of rest and fluids if relatively mild or admit them and hook up an IV if it isn't. OM has first principles as well. If we are presented with something that we have never seen before, we would still take the pulse and look at the tongue to determine severity and give us initial steps to approach the disease. It is this ability, this construct of first principles that makes OM a complete medicine. And as far as I have been able to determine, (though I don't know enough about homeopathy to be sure) no other CAM therapy has first principles and is therefore incomplete. Greg ******************************************************** Dr. Greg Sperber, BMBS (MD), MTOM, MBA, L.Ac. Diplomate in Chinese Herbology (NCCAOM) Diplomate in Acupuncture (NCCAOM) Greg ******************************************************** Fri, 19 Mar 2004 09:46:12 -0800 (PST) David Razo <ozar14 Is TCM a complete system? Is TCM a COMPLETE system? David Mail - More reliable, more storage, less spam Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted March 20, 2004 Report Share Posted March 20, 2004 We must stand up for a medical system that embraces the best of the old and new, modern and traditional. A purely biochemical-non energetic view is overly simplistic and unlucky. sperb wrote:Hi David, I think this is a very important question that I have been pondering for a while. The short answer is yes, and I believe because it is, it is different than almost every other CAM therapy. I first started pondering this when one of my supervisors in medical school asked me a question I didn't know the answer to. When I said I didn't know, he responded by saying to think back to " first principles. " I had heard this term quite a lot, but never understood it. After much contemplation and asking of many questions, I figured out that first principles meant the ability to treat something that the practitioner has never seen before. For example, even if the cause of a fever in unknown, a WM practitioner still knows to assess the vital signs to determine severity and to recommend plenty of rest and fluids if relatively mild or admit them and hook up an IV if it isn't. OM has first principles as well. If we are presented with something that we have never seen before, we would still take the pulse and look at the tongue to determine severity and give us initial steps to approach the disease. It is this ability, this construct of first principles that makes OM a complete medicine. And as far as I have been able to determine, (though I don't know enough about homeopathy to be sure) no other CAM therapy has first principles and is therefore incomplete. Greg ******************************************************** Dr. Greg Sperber, BMBS (MD), MTOM, MBA, L.Ac. Diplomate in Chinese Herbology (NCCAOM) Diplomate in Acupuncture (NCCAOM) Greg ******************************************************** Fri, 19 Mar 2004 09:46:12 -0800 (PST) David Razo <ozar14 Is TCM a complete system? Is TCM a COMPLETE system? David Mail - More reliable, more storage, less spam Membership requires that you do not post any commerical, swear, religious, spam messages,flame another member or swear. To change your email settings, i.e. individually, daily digest or none, visit the groups’ homepage: Chinese Medicine/ click ‘edit my membership' on the right hand side and adjust accordingly. To send an email to <Chinese Medicine- > from the email account you joined with. You will be removed automatically but will still recieve messages for a few days. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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