Integration of TCM and WM: Axiomatic Considerations

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4c. Re: Integration of TCM and WM - the way of the future

Posted by: " acudoc11 " acudoc11 acudoc11

Wed Sep 27, 2006 4:20 pm (PDT)

 

Hi Phil

 

As true as this is.....'the system' - those in control - doesn't want

to ever

see this happen regardless of what lip service they may give at any

moment in

order to make the co-job look good.

 

Of course it doesn't mean that we should forget about fighting the

battles to

make it happen.

 

Richard

 

With reference to WM, we deal with axioms which are involved in

all Western Science, as well as axioms which are especially present in

Biology. An examplke of the processes of Biology is that Biology

accepts very local conditions and is not particularly concerned with

cosmic conditions. Physics could encompass both the local and the

cosmic.

Conventions or axioms such as these are not neccessarily present

in TCM, and similar energetic healing sciences such as Homeopathy,

etc. Thus a TCM physician must , at present,bend to the conventions

of his WM coilleague to be comprehended.

Many factors are present in our activities as TCM physicians, and

I do not mean to enlarge, or to diminish, the pressure of Big Pharma,

hide bound laws emanating from the 1920s, etc. However, at some time,

if we are to gain total respectibility, and to genuinely integrate,

the axiomatic bases of our TCM, and WM must be integrated, or placed

in a very respectable tension. Doing this would tend to create a

philosophy which encompassed both phenomenal and less phenomenal

entities. Is one existent? I might with very great humility and

respect point to JBS Haldane, a biologist, who defended the Jain

philosophy. With respect, if we followed, or slightly modified the

Jain perspective, and promoted it as academically respectable, we

would have the philosophical basis for discussions between TCM and WM.

Jains accept Ayurveda, and Ted Kaptchuk has suggested that the TCM

and the Ayurvedic systems have a common philosophy. It would not

require us to bend much.

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