Traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) combines traditional theories and practices, involving herbal medicine, acupuncture, and more. While some methods and concepts are questioned, increasing research attempts to validate its effectiveness from a scientific perspective, making TCM's scientific status a complex and controversial topic.
The controversy surrounding the scientific validity of TCM mainly involves:
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I understand that Traditional Oriental Medicine, as its postulates comes from a deep observation, understanding, and measurement of the environment. this was embodied in various mathematical classics of the workings of the world and thus applied to the five metaphysical arts, of which medicine is a part.
Modern science has formidable tools for measuring and understanding phenomena, therefore it is our science and its methods that have to be adapted to the way of working of traditional oriental medicine. And understand its challenges.
The integration between both methods is complicated, because they start from different points of interpretation of man and human health. Oriental medicine emphasizes individualized work, patient by patient, and that is one of its strengths. I teach my medical students, for example, how to treat pain. It is curious that, although they treat the same pathology, they treat it differently with acupuncture, making an individualized and highly effective treatment.
Traditional medicine works well, our science has to find the tools to understand the phenomenon without denying it outright. I can see, patient by patient the immediate relief after each session. I do not treat pathologies, but patients on an individual basis. That which has been done for thousands of years is a paradigm that our science is just beginning to understand.
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