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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
horn
in
the universe — man
— and
the prominent place he should have
in
the
universe and
in
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 21st century will
become
a revolution
for modern science and medicine.
I.
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 modern 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
included
in
the super giant
system of
the universe.
Traditional Chinese medicine.
Western medicine,
QIGONG,
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
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prevention and cure of disease.
It
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
major 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
of
the
advantages,
disadvantages,
special
characteristics
and
superxori ties 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
guantitative
to
gualitative,
comprehensively studying
the
changes
in
the complex giant system of
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
is
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
on
"traditional Chinese medicine,
QIGONG,
and ESP are
all
one,
they are a
single field
of
research" 1,.
A
large number
of scientific workers have
discovered through their strict
experimental
research
on QIGONG
and ESP
that
there
a
great
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 conscious
of the
fact that
there may
exist
a profound
inherent connection between
ESP and QIGONG 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
inheritance
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
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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
is the path
to
a
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.
I he founding and development
of somatic
science will
reguire assistance
from
traditional
Chinese
medicine.
The
modernization
of
China's
traditional
medicine
will
also
reguire 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 at
a
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
n°t only
a complex
giant system,
but
it
also exists
in
the super giant
system of
the universe.
The human body
is an open,
complex
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*3 .
Because of
the
limitations 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
reguires 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
somatxc science
in
the subject
of
research,
but
also
in
a
series of
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