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the regulating
and control
reactions caused
in the
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disease.
Therefore,
Chinese medicine symptoms are the study of
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states.
For example,
the Chinese medicine identification
of the eig“
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links
is the study of the
system characteristics
of the
human body (yin
and
yang,
internal
and
external,
false
and
real,
cold
;and ^eat)
and
changes
in the relationships among the
component parts
(internal organs;
and dividing the overall regulatory and control reactions into
a number
or
symptom models.
Furthermore,
Chinese medicine cures actually focus on the
characteristics
of
the symptom model and regulating this with medicine
order to bring the body back
to
a
healthy balanced
state.
This
is
tfte
great
contribution
of
Chinese
medicine
to the body of human medicine
Therefore,
Chinese
medicine
Research
into
symptoms
has
provided
theoretical model
for the functional states of the human body and
a large
amount materials
on clinical
experience.
These must
be summarized and
studied
.
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STRATIFIED STRUCTURE
Western
medicine
is
relatively
strict
and
detailed
in
its
stratification of the structure
of the human body.
It
divides
cells and
body into
such layers
as
the whole,
the organs
,
_ the tissue,
individual
molecules.
In the regulation and
control relationship
of the individual
layers,
it
stresses the
control
of
the higher structures over the
lower
Illicit.
In
the beginning
it
stressed
the
central
nervou,, systen s
control
over
the
surrounding
organs,
with
the
organs only playing
mechanical role.
Later
it discovered the regulating of the
still stressed
the control
of the
hypothalamus over
the target organs.
Chinese ned?clne has
a simpler stratification of the human body ,
ohto h
is
also somewhat confusing
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in addition to
J
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connection and
the higher levels,
it also ^resscsthatthere
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the
lower
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the cells and the molecules form
the complex
picture of
the human giant system.
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(4).
OPEN AND STABLE
The
human,
body
is
an open
system,
it must constant exchange energy
and information with the
environment.
Chinese medicine
takes the human
body to
be
a
part of the universe environment,
constantly being effected
by the environment such as the theory of
the movement
of QI
through the
body and
the shifting between midnight and noon.
However,
the human body
must also maintain
its own stable state,
so the body
is
in
a dynamically
stable
state.
Chinese
medicine
places
a
great
deal of emphasis
on
maintaining a balanced state
between yin
and yang.
Therefore
open and
stable are
contradictory.
In order to maintain
a state of balance
in the
human body,
the openness
to
information
and
material
from
the outside
world
is selective.
For example,
such sensory organs
as those for hearing
and sight can only
transform outside
information within
a certain range
into nerve
impulses which are processed.
The sensory organs cannot act to
transform energy
or information
outside the
range
of
normal hearing or
visible
light.
To absorb nutrients,
the food must go through the stomach
and intestines where
it
is transformed
into glucose,
fatty acids and amino
acids
before
it
can
be
selectively
absorbed
into energy and building
materials usable to the human body.
The
human
immune
system
is
an even
more selective system.
It rejects all protein which
is not
of
the body of
itself,
including germs,
maintaining the body's
wholeness and eliminating
the
threat
of
disease
causing
germs.
All
cells are enveloped
in
a
membrane layer which
is called the cytomembrane .
Its function
is to allow
the cell
to have
selective material
exchange,
selectively taking
in and
eliminating various matter.
The
cytomembrane
has
different receptors
which
are
an
information
transfer
system
which
serve to distinguish
between and accept various enzymes and
drugs.
Therefore,
the
cell
is
a
selectively
open
system.
In
summation,
there exists within the human
body,
from
the
overall
body
to
the
organs
and
cells,
an
open and
stabilizing relationship
which contain
a great number
of questions which
have not yet been answered.
This also
forms
the
complex picture
of the
giant open system of the human body.
The system
of theories
of Chinese medicine have unique viewpoints and
theoretical models
of
the human body system.
Thorough research
of these
points will
provide
a helpful theoretical framework for the human body as
an open complex giant system.
In recent years,
many
authors attempted
to
carry out
this kind
of work,
and continued
to delve deeper.
However,
in
general,
the Chinese medicine system theories
are still
in the beginning
stage.
Not only
is
it
necessary to summarize the theoretical system of
Chinese medicine
from
the
viewpoint
of
system
sciences,
it
is also
necessary to collect and study a great deal
of scientific facts concerning
human bodily functions.
In this
area,
the
facts accumulated
by Western
medicine and
physiology should
be absorbed.
The
opinions described
in
this
article
are
all
preliminary
opinions,
and
are
presented
for
reference.
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THE HUMAN BODY IS A THREE PART COMPLEX GIANT SYSTEM
CONSISTING OF
"SPIRIT,
QI AND GOD"
BY:
Wu Banghui
(Sichuan University)
ABSTRACT
This
article
starts
out
from
the viewpoint of system theory and
in
accordance with the duality of the
"solid body
and fields"
of biological
material clearly
pointing out that the human body
is
a three part complex
giant system consisting of
"spirit,
QI
and god".
It
also emphasizes the
point out
that
the
human body
field
(QI")
also has
a complex stratified
structure.
It forms a giant
system
which
is
connected
to
the
solid
body".
The fields
of the different
levels can have different qualities,
and
in the human body they
may have
the effect
of
"ordered parameters
.
"God"
is
the
functions
of
the
human
body.
The high level functions
connected to the functions
of the human brain
which cannot
be completely
attributed to
physical,
chemical
or
even
biological functions.
In the
narrow sense,
"god"
is
information processed
through the
spirit and Qi
systems
of
the brain.
It
has material
carriers,
and
can react
on the
human body and
can also effect
the
outside
world.
From
this
we can
understand the basic principles
of Chinese medicine and QIGONG.
KEY WORDS:
Solid
body,
field,
functions,
spirit,
QI
,
god,
system,
synergenics,
ordered parameters,
brain,
information.
From the viewpoint
of system sciences,
a basic question
in
the study
of systems
is the
examination
into
just exactly
"what"
is this system.
This
is the examination
into
its structure
(what
is
it
composed
of/,
How
is
it
formed?)
and
its functions as well
as the relationship between
its
structure and
its functions.
This
is one key
in the understanding
of the
basic nature
of
a system and
of using system science methods to study the
system.
This
is
so
for systems
in general,
and this
is
so for biological
systems.
This
is also
so for the highest
form,
the human body.
Therefore,
the
question
of
"what
is
the
human
body",
or as a
"material system",
what
is
the structure
of the
human body
(what
is
it
composed of?
How
is
if formed)
and what
are
its functions as well
as wha
is the relationship between
its structure and
its functions are
the basic
questions
studied
by
somatic
sciences.
Somatic
science,
this huge
scientific system,
must be
established on
the proper
base
of knowledge
corresponding to
this' question
Research
in
sciences from
anatomy to
molecular biology
as well as
modern physics have already disclosed that the human body,
as
a
material
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contains the following "strata
.
Individual,
system,
organs,
tissue,
cells,
molecules,
atoms,
subatomic particles,
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On
this
basis,
modern
biology
and
other
corresponding sciences
concerned with
the human
body have
come up
with questions and answers.
This
is the
extremely
precious
knowledge
which
has
been
obtained by
following the
path of
"analysis”
since
modern science began to develop.
It
an be called the "solid body model"
of the human body.
It began
in the
West and the medical science which quickly developed
in the West, which
is
generally called
Western medicine
was established
on the
basis
of this
mode.
This
developed along
with modern science,
received support from
corresponding modern technology and achieved glorious achievements.^
Since
the
latter
half
of
this
century,
with
the birth of system sciences,
research
in modern system theory also
gave
modern
life
sciences
a new
vitality,
giving
it hope that on the basis
of "analysis
it could achieve
a life science system
with
overall
knowledge
which
would
include the
system of
he
human body.
This type
of knowledge should be the dialectical
unity of analysis and synthesis.
However,
when studying the human body
from the
viewpoint
of applied
system
sciences
and
looking
at
certain
human
phenomena which modern
science
is not yet able to explain
or even accept,
we cannot help but keep
coming back to the original question time after time.
"Just what
is the human body?"
"The
individual,
systems,
organs,
tissue,
cells,..."
all undoubtedly
are part of the human body.
The question
is.
Is this all there
is to the
human
body?
"Can
an
"experimental body"
completely reflect
the basic
nature
of the human body?”
Actually,
Chinese medicine with
its thousands
of years
of history,
and
its
theoretical basis
which has been unshaken by modern science,
has
silently challenged this model.
Chinese
medicine
is
far behind Western
medicine
in
anatomical
knowledge
of
the
human body,
even
less
in
its
knowledge cytology and
molecular
biology.
Actually,
the
theories
of
Chinese medicine
do not
emphasize the structure
of
the solid human body.
Several
thousands
of
years
ago,
with
very
little
knowledge
of the
structure
of
the solid
human body
and under very unclear circumstances,
Chinese medicine had
a convincing total system of theory and
its practice
was
outstandingly
effective.
Furthermore,
under the assault by modern
science and Western medicine,
its theories continued to stand
firm.
They
did not
shirk or
break down
or dissolve.
In practice,
although Western
medicine has had growth
and development,
Chinese medicine
can still
"go
its own
way"
.
This situation at
least shows that there
is something else
to the human body
in addition
to the
structure
of
the solid
body.
It
objectively also
presents the question
of whether or not
the structure
of
the solid body can completely reflect the basic
nature of
man,
including
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