Medical Bias

[Guest guest]

Hi Carl!

 

I agree with your comments here. I would also like to add that - and I

couldn't find the post to which you respond - " nasty bugs " are a concept that

was

present in the Ma Wang Dui tablets. It is interesting that they are not

discussed in the Nei Jing or Nan Jing.

 

Many practitioners of a 'new Oriental Medicine' (not including myself)

consider the use of the terms of five phases and six pathogens to be simply

medieval. It is very easy to drive medical decisions by cultural and temporal

bias. We

have the chance to free ourselves from this human tendency, but not through

denigration of others thus demonstrating our own biases.

 

Will

 

 

 

> >>With WM, well I have no idea what are the principle's of WM >>medicine.

> They range any where from " kill the nasty bugs " (even I >>guess if the body

> is perfectly healthy and is filled with billions of >>nasties), to " if we

> can't fix it, then cut it out " , to " if you don't like how >>you look, we can

> build you a new body " .

>

> These words pertain not to western medicine in the fullest sense of the

> term, but to a medicine whose over-confidence in certain techniques lead it to

> occupy an extreme anti-historical scientism. The practice of dishonoring

> teachers narrows one's view. Likewise, the practice of dishonoring different

> traditions (whether WM doctors dismissing TCM or western TCM students -- and

who

> in the US can claim more than studenthood in the Science of the Yellow

> Emperor? -- dismissing WM) leaves patients confused and unable to consolidate

> their medical options.

 

 

William R. Morris, L.Ac., O.M.D., MSEd

Dean of Educational Advancement

Emperor's College of Oriental Medicine

310-453-8300 phone

310-829-3838 fax

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