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_. Approved For Release 2000/08/10 : CIA-RDP96-00792R000300040002-9 ON COMBINING TRADITIONAL CHINESE MEDICINE AND SOMATIC SCIENCE BY: Xie Yongxin and Ma Lieguang (Chengdu Medical College) The rise of somatic science in China marks the highest of all things born in the universe — man — and the prominent place he should have in the universe and ain the fields of modern science. It marks the important foundation laid for somatic science by medical science and its branching out and being propelled to the forefront of modern science. It also marks the intimate union of traditional Chinese medicine and somatic science and the outlook for major developments, which in the 2ist century will become a revolution for modern science and medicine. tL. TRADITIONAL CHINESE MEDICINE, MEDICINE AND SOMATIC SCIENCE The rise of somatic science within the body of modern science, has formed theories of modern somatic science concerning the subjects of research, contents and methods. According to these theories: L. Somatic science is a major portion of the body of madern science, combining natural sciences, mathematical sciences, system sciences, thought sciences, and social sciences. Somatic science is the study of man in his universal environment. Its subject of study, the human body, is a conscious, open, complex giant system inciuded in the super giant system of the universe. Traditional Chinese medicine, Western medicine, GQIGONG, ESP as well as all other phenomena and processes of the functional states of the open, complex system of the human body fall within the scope of its research. As a system, somatic science includes three major categories - basic science, technical science and applied engineering. The basic theoretical sciences of medicine and the basic science and technical science of somatic science are very closely related, just as the theories of traditional Chinese medicine such as Yin and Yang, the theory of five elements (wood, fire, earth, metal and water), the theory of hidden phenomena and spirit, the theory of evidence = and disease are all closely related to the functional theories of somatic science concerning the complex giant system of the human body. The same is true for scientific and technological disciplines of Western medicine such as pathology, pharmacology, immunology and parasitology .- Medical clinical sciences such as internal medicine, surgery, gynecology and obstetrics, pediatrics and orthopedics can be considered as applied technologies of somatic sciences. We can see that the objects of research in medicine and somatic sciences, broadly viewed, are both the human body. Narrowly viewed, the object of medical research is the health of the human body and the 4S Approved For Release 2000/08/10 : CIA-RDP96-00792R000300040002-9
,» Approved For Release 2000/08/10 : CIA-RDP96-00792R000300040002-9 PNA, Vs prevention and cure of disease. ft is the commonality of the subjects of research of medicine and somatic science that determines the intimate relationship between the basic theories of medicine as well as clinical science and the three major departments of somatic science. Furthermore, the characteristics of medical study of the human body indicate that medicine obviously is a portion of somatic science research, and is a mayor branch of the body of somatic science. 2. Traditional Chinese medicine, Western medicine, as well as combined traditional Chinese and Western medicine are all important pillars and practical foundations of somatic science. They are important contents of somatic science research. By using the theories and methods of the open, complex giant system in somatic science to study traditional Chinese and Western medicines, we can clearly see that they are two different bodies of medicine formed under different historical and cultural conditions, based on different philosophical thought = and scientific concepts, use different theories and methods and have developed along different § lines. There should be an overall scientific evaluation orf the advantages, disadvantages, special characteristics and superiorities of these two types of medicine, stressing thorough research through somatic science into the functional states of the open, complex giant system of the human body and laws governing their adjustment and transitions, to include the properties of the various levels of the human body from the microscopic to the macroscopic, the interaction between human consciousness and the various environmental levels of man’s universe, from quantitative to qualitative, comprehensively studying the changes in the complex giant system af the human body to form a channel between traditional Chinese medicine and Western medicine and raise both of them to the front lines of modern science and impel them to the pinnacle of modern science. 3. There 1s a very profound inherent relationship between traditional Chinese medicine and somatic science. From the very beginnings of somatic science, Comrade Qian Xuelin has laid special stress an "traditional Chinese medicine, GIGONG, and ESF are all one, they are a single field of research"+. & large number of scientific workers have discovered through their strict experimental research on GIGONG and ESP that there a qreat number of similarities between them. Many of the subjects of experiments in the two are also closely tied in with the theory of channels in traditional Chinese medicine and even with overall theories of traditional Chinese medicine. They began to become consciaus of the fact that there may exist a profound inherent connection between ESP and GIGONG and traditional Chinese medicine. If we full utilize all possible modern scientific and technology knowledge and methods to conduct experimental and theoretical research, and at the same time, on the basis of modern science and technology fully absorb and digest the vast anheritance of traditional Chinese medicine accumulated over several thousand years in China, we will be further able to unite the research of the three. We can also disclose the secrets of the human body, this highest and most evolved product of the natural world, most complex and 44 Approved For Release 2000/08/10 : CIA-RDP96-00792R000300040002-9
',s Approved For Release 2000/08/10 : CIA-RDP96-00792R000300040002-9 LN465-92 highest self-organized complex giant system=. The results of this research will make more clear as time goes on that traditional Chinese medicine is a major Pillar of somatic science and is a key to unlocking the mysteries of the complex giant system of the human body. The uniting of traditional Chinese medicine, QIGONG and ESP as the path to aé modern scientific revolution. Traditional Chinese medicine is more closely related to somatic science than to any of the other modern sciences, and the subjects of research, content and methods are most similar, the views and terminology are the nearest to each other. The founding and development of somatic science will require assistance from traditional Chinese medicine. The modernization of China‘s traditional medicine will also require assistance from somatic science. The intimate joining and mutual permeation of traditional Chinese medicine and somatic science is a major avenue, point of breakthrough and developmental direction for the modernization of traditional Chinese medicine. THE SYSTEM THEORY OF TRADITIONAL CHINESE MEDICINE IS THE BASIS AND THE KNOT THAT TIES TRADITIONAL CHINESE MEDICINE AND SOMATIC SCIENCE TOGETHER Traditional Chinese medicine and somatic science come together ata wide range of points. The subject of study of somatic science is the human body. It is an open, conscious, complex giant system. This concept is of profound scientific significance. It especially stresses that the human body is not only a complex giant system, but it also exists in the super giant system of the universe. The human body is an open, compiex Giant system, and it also is an especially complex giant system —- a subsystem of the social system. The human brain is also an open, complex Giant system. All the activities of the human body are carried out under the unified control of the human = brain. Therefore, we must merge these two giant systems into one and completely study the characteristics of the activities of the overall giant system of the human body*>. Because of the lamitations of history, traditional Chinese Medicine cannot generalize its subject of research to the degree above for somatic Science, but it has a profound description of this type of topic, and there are a large number of similarities in trains of thought. Although traditional Chinese medicine does not have this precise concept of the human body as an open, conscious, complex giant system, it has compiled a great deal of profound thoughts on this major topic, and requires that on the basis of modern science and technology and through extensive research of this juncture of medicine and somatic science, we absorb and digest its thoughts, and then we may even more thoroughly reveal this open, complex giant system which is the human body. Close ties not only exist between traditional Chinese medicine and somatic science in the subject af research, but also in a series of 4S Approved For Release 2000/08/10 : CIA-RDP96-00792R000300040002-9