Chinese Medicine


Traditional medicine of China has a long historical and cultural
background dating back about 2500 years. The ancient Chinese people were able
to reach a level of social stability that included the ability to treat disease
of emotional, physical, and spiritual origins. Although a belief in spirits as
the cause of disease has remained in China even to the present day, the view
that the body obeyed a natural order struck a chord in the intellectual elite of
ancient China. It was this elite class that refined and developed these ideas
over many centuries.(1)
The ideas that the ancient Chinese had about the organs of the body, and
their functions, as well as the causes and development of disease, show large
differences when compared with Western medicine.(2)
The Chinese do not think of theory, as we do in the West, as needing to
be proven to reach the highest degree of truth. A Chinese doctor can look at
the kidney as a machine and think of it as a reflection......

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