now physiological versus pharmacological effects mirror CM versus allopathy

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Hi Hugo,

 

I've been following (and enjoying) your posts in this forum and greatly

appreciate your profound patience as well as you willingness to present wisdom

in the face of scientism. The pharmacology and toxicology taught in European

and American CM colleges is often an artifact of Western allopathic medicine's

research and reliance on pharmacologically powerful " single molecule medicine " .

I've written a bit in other forums about a fundamental issue of physiological

and biochemical research. While trying to understand the " physiological effect "

of a biochemical in the human body, researchers need to distinguish this

difficult to observe yet powerful and momentarily variable effect from the

" pharmacological " or toxicological effects that can be measured. Whether the

molecule of interest is synthesized in the human tissues or comes from the diet

as a naturally occurring molecule in surrounding flora or fauna, our

understanding is quite challenged by " physiological " versus " pharmacological "

effects. It's further complicated by the fact that an endogenous molecule from

a human tissue might cause " receptor up syndrome " making the behavior that

caused the release a source of developmental rewards and strengthening of

balance. The exogenously delivered molecule tends to cause " receptor down

syndrome " leading to imbalances in homeostasis and eventually addiction and

reliance on the exogenous molecule.

 

The lack of side effects of CM formulas utilizing potentially toxic herbs

displays the empiricism and maturity of this traditional science. It became

most apparent in the aristolochic acid dust-up of the 1990s wherein the

inappropriate use over the long term of Chinese herbs used in short term usage

formulas caused profound side effects. Back tracking to Japanese and then back

to Chinese investigations in the 1980s showed that when the herbs were used in

Chinese medicine formulas and applied to CM diagnostic conditions, no side

effects were reported.

 

Western students of CM find themselves faced with an extraordinarily steep

learning curve to overcome the WM allopathic traditions and modern research

methods of their own culture to find even a modest sense of relaxed clarity with

the efficacy of CM in it's generally gentle and modest methods to achieve

significant results. Your posts on this forum and other forums are an

invaluable tool to students seeking to acquire a sense of clear vision in

applying CM as a physiological tool offering efficacies and safety rarely found

in modern WM. CM is more likely to honor and adjust the balances of the

endogenous physiology.

 

Thanks for your attunement. Thanks also for the many others on this forum that

bring the conversation to the level where CM practices can be more clearly seen.

I digress here to thank also for noting that behavior such as

physical activity can be a more powerful tool in affecting metabolic syndrome

and increasing insulin sensitivity ... in his response to the T. Colin

Campbell's China Study thread. Campbell's brilliant 1980s research led to that

next area of 1990s and 2000s research regarding aerobic activity's role in

effecting positive lifestyle changes.

 

Respectfully and gratefully,

 

Emmanuel Segmen

 

 

[Guest guest]

What do you know about left right orientation in organic molecules, and

mirroring and chirality ?

  I heard a little about it, but for even the operation of cellular metabolism,

I have a lot of catching up to do. Is this referable to yin and yang?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chiral_molecules

 

--- On Tue, 1/20/09, Emmanuel Segmen <mrsegmen wrote:

Emmanuel Segmen <mrsegmen

now physiological versus pharmacological effects mirror CM

versus allopathy

Chinese Medicine

Tuesday, January 20, 2009, 7:13 PM

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Hi Hugo,

 

 

 

I've been following (and enjoying) your posts in this forum and greatly

appreciate your profound patience as well as you willingness to present wisdom

in the face of scientism. The pharmacology and toxicology taught in European

and American CM colleges is often an artifact of Western allopathic medicine's

research and reliance on pharmacologically powerful " single molecule medicine " .

I've written a bit in other forums about a fundamental issue of physiological

and biochemical research. While trying to understand the " physiological effect "

of a biochemical in the human body, researchers need to distinguish this

difficult to observe yet powerful and momentarily variable effect from the

" pharmacological " or toxicological effects that can be measured. Whether the

molecule of interest is synthesized in the human tissues or comes from the diet

as a naturally occurring molecule in surrounding flora or fauna, our

understanding is quite challenged by

" physiological " versus " pharmacological " effects. It's further complicated by

the fact that an endogenous molecule from a human tissue might cause " receptor

up syndrome " making the behavior that caused the release a source of

developmental rewards and strengthening of balance. The exogenously delivered

molecule tends to cause " receptor down syndrome " leading to imbalances in

homeostasis and eventually addiction and reliance on the exogenous molecule.

 

 

 

The lack of side effects of CM formulas utilizing potentially toxic herbs

displays the empiricism and maturity of this traditional science. It became

most apparent in the aristolochic acid dust-up of the 1990s wherein the

inappropriate use over the long term of Chinese herbs used in short term usage

formulas caused profound side effects. Back tracking to Japanese and then back

to Chinese investigations in the 1980s showed that when the herbs were used in

Chinese medicine formulas and applied to CM diagnostic conditions, no side

effects were reported.

 

 

 

Western students of CM find themselves faced with an extraordinarily steep

learning curve to overcome the WM allopathic traditions and modern research

methods of their own culture to find even a modest sense of relaxed clarity with

the efficacy of CM in it's generally gentle and modest methods to achieve

significant results. Your posts on this forum and other forums are an

invaluable tool to students seeking to acquire a sense of clear vision in

applying CM as a physiological tool offering efficacies and safety rarely found

in modern WM. CM is more likely to honor and adjust the balances of the

endogenous physiology.

 

 

 

Thanks for your attunement. Thanks also for the many others on this forum that

bring the conversation to the level where CM practices can be more clearly seen.

I digress here to thank also for noting that behavior such as

physical activity can be a more powerful tool in affecting metabolic syndrome

and increasing insulin sensitivity ... in his response to the T. Colin

Campbell's China Study thread. Campbell's brilliant 1980s research led to that

next area of 1990s and 2000s research regarding aerobic activity's role in

effecting positive lifestyle changes.

 

 

 

Respectfully and gratefully,

 

 

 

Emmanuel Segmen