Response to recent threads regarding styles of acupuncture

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 Hi. This is an exciting (and challenging) time of globally finding and mixing

the old and new in chinese medicine. Everybody wants more knowledge because they

want more or better, longer lasting clinical results, and also the personal

satisfaction - even joy- of grasping some of the elusively simple beauty and

truth about being human and feeling, helping life, (the begining and heart of

this craft), wants us to go into it more .

 Results vary, interpretations vary. The affinity, or accesibility for one

teacher or student relationship over another naturally varies. The environment

has changed, modern lifestyle has changed, the food chain is modified,

practitioner energy fluctuates, social conditioning varies from place to place,

the anatomical and physiological makeup of individuals is wildly different.

 And we have to guard against being naive, too. Medicine is big buisness, and an

invitation for some to arrogance and private enrichment, at the expense of

customer and colleague. The money making part, the turf war, is more important

and fought over politically, economically, than the acual clinical result of

Relieving Suffering.

 I don't want to lose any therapy I've found useful, no matter how often or not

I use it. I am a forever beginner at herbs, but I'm very cautious and look for,

or ask for help and advice when I can't wrap my head around something. I know

some things aren't FDA approved or actually illegal in some places. I didn't

make the rules, I want to open them. And to open them for all of us, we have to

be more tollerant of each others views, be more cohesive, family. Some 'new

insights' are just somebody finally grasping onto a little of something, and

mistakenly believing noone else sees it. But really deep and novel stuff is

coming too.

 We stand on the shoulders of ancient giants. Chinese medical theories are

revolutionizing world medicine in ways. And some want to stop it, some want to

be the TCM czar. The depth and breadth of our field of interest is vast, vast,

vast. It touches everything, even the way we breathe and think. We all have

strengths. Nobody is the supreme physician. Promoting each other and standing up

for each others differences and methods is important. Useless things will fall

away by themselves.

 I'm sorry I'm not hitting my point. We need enlightened regulators too, (and a

ton of money to grease corrupt wheels). What else is new?

 

  

 

--- On Tue, 2/3/09, Robert Chu <chusauli wrote:

 

 

 

 

 

On the surface, it would seem that the Tan, Chen and Tung systems

are inopposition with TCM, but this is not the case.