Recognizing.The.Relevance.Of.Knowledge
(2022-12-30 09:43:17)Recognizing The
Relevance Of Knowledge
In my
last blog
titled
" Origins Of
Knowledge",
I want
to regard it as a kind
of gift to my readers
to
introduce
a special
case.
In
this case, a
p atient
with renal
failure has
got
effective treatment
with TCM (Tranditional
Chinese
Medicine). and on
November 23, 2019, a TV
station
broadcast
a program called
" Chinese Medicine
with
Miraculous
Methods and Chinese Herbs with
Soulful
Feelings."
and this
case was introduced in
detail in
that
program.
It has been
proved by this case
again that our TCM
and Western
medicine
should develop individually
based on
one's own therapeutic effect, and
it has also
been proved
by this case
that there
is no need to
force
them to entangle
with each other
, and no need
to force
them to refer to each other .
In fact,
what we should
believe
is
the impeccable
therapeutic
effect that TCM
has shown us now.
Objectively speaking, both
TCM and Western
medicine
are the
sciences of human health.
So, it is
clear
that there are
some correlations
between
these two
sciences.
But it
doesn't mean
that
contemporary science can
explain
these
correlations right
now.
Maybe
in the near future,
w estern
medicine
will
understand
these correlations.
So, it is not
necessary to be in a hurry
to
understand
these
correlations or even want
to interpret everything
from the
theory of TCM with western
medicial terms
.
Now,if we
interpret TCM in that
way, we possiblely
waste a
lot of research
resources or
ask for nothing
but insults
only because ourselves.
For
example, there
is a very popular TCM textbook
,
it
first introduces
the five zang
viscera based
on the
basic
knowledge of Western
medicine,
and then
introduces
them once
again based on the theory
of
TCM. but
in this way, it
make readers feel something
farfetched or
even something ridiculous in
the end.
All of
these are just because
that we go
too far and
we
eager impatiently
to explain
these correlations
between
TCM and Western medicine, but it is not
the
time for
such explaining now.
In
fact, our TCM has it's own
theory and there are
a
large
number of actual cases to prove TCM theory
to
be
effective in treatments for
many diseases,
and
lots
of such cases have already
been reported on TV.
Such a
combination of theory and
practice is
good
enough.
Therefore,
it is not necessary to borrow those poor theories
from Western medicine to explain our
TCM,
or it
will mess up our TCM theory,and it will
make
things
worse and worse.
Let us
take a look at
the history
of science
and
technology,
then we
will see
that the correlations
among different
kinds of
knowledge
have been
realized little by
little. Such realizating
cases can
be
found in
this history here and there.
Even the
knowledge correlations between TCM
and
Western
medicine are no exception.
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on April 16, 2020