Modern medicine or Traditional Medicine? - To cut or not to cut?
By modern medicine, I am refering to the treatment of illness and disease with the help to modern durgs using more equipments uch as scope, CT, etc. For traditional medicine, I am refering to Traditional Chinese medicine as well as medicine use by various ethnic groups which was handed down through wordd of mouth of myths.
With the context set, and boundaries, let try to explore the question! First there is no correct answer, and the right question most of us should ask is not "OR" rather it should be and "AND".
As a learner of TCM, I sincerely feel that the two fields of thoughs will one day come together to serve the human race, the two school of though complement each other in many aspects and neither parties should ignore the curing effect of the approaches, although they are very different.
I am reading the book "名老中医之路", from points introduced by the 名老中医, they are looking forward to the eventual merger of the two systems and I sincerely wish for this to happen one day.
From the study of economics, we know that macro economics factors and micro economics factors are quite different but at the same time affect the state of health of a country, and the two school of thoughs complement each other when politician and governement introduce measure to restore the health of a country. Same for the medicial field, while modern medicine focusing or specialise on breaking the human body into parts of pieces (Micro), TCM look at human as a whole (macro). Both approach a illness with the objective to solve a problems, to cure a illness.
Thus we should try to seek both treatments, if possible, before a drastic or importance decision need to be made. Many articles and media will tell you that there are some organs and parts in our body which are redundance, but I beg to differ. All parts in our body is there for a reason, be it directly functional and indirectly producing supporting element for the support organs, care should be taken or alternative view should be consulted before a decision is made to remove it.
My thought is still very disorganised, will try to improve it further.
With the context set, and boundaries, let try to explore the question! First there is no correct answer, and the right question most of us should ask is not "OR" rather it should be and "AND".
As a learner of TCM, I sincerely feel that the two fields of thoughs will one day come together to serve the human race, the two school of though complement each other in many aspects and neither parties should ignore the curing effect of the approaches, although they are very different.
I am reading the book "名老中医之路", from points introduced by the 名老中医, they are looking forward to the eventual merger of the two systems and I sincerely wish for this to happen one day.
From the study of economics, we know that macro economics factors and micro economics factors are quite different but at the same time affect the state of health of a country, and the two school of thoughs complement each other when politician and governement introduce measure to restore the health of a country. Same for the medicial field, while modern medicine focusing or specialise on breaking the human body into parts of pieces (Micro), TCM look at human as a whole (macro). Both approach a illness with the objective to solve a problems, to cure a illness.
Thus we should try to seek both treatments, if possible, before a drastic or importance decision need to be made. Many articles and media will tell you that there are some organs and parts in our body which are redundance, but I beg to differ. All parts in our body is there for a reason, be it directly functional and indirectly producing supporting element for the support organs, care should be taken or alternative view should be consulted before a decision is made to remove it.
My thought is still very disorganised, will try to improve it further.
posted by 黄欣杰 - Clement Ng | 4:21 pm
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