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Herbal Medicine
Introduction
For many years, Chinese herbal medicine
(CHM) could not be explained or understood from the Western medicine and
pharmaceutical viewpoints and approaches. Because of this, Chinese herbal
medicine has been labeled as unscientific, and regarded by some as a type of
folk medicine.
This situation has generated much
misunderstanding about CHM, and has seriously jeopardized and hindered its
recognition as an independent form of professional medicine around the globe.
This situation has not only damaged the Chinese medicine profession, but has
also harmed the interests of patients and the public. It is also
counterproductive to the advancement of medicine in general.
Is Chinese herbal medicine (CHM)
scientific? This is a fundamental question facing the entire Chinese medicine
profession. It will decide the fate of Chinese medicine in general, and Chinese
herbal medicine in particular. Therefore, it is of the utmost importance to the
healthy growth, development, and future of Chinese medicine. If the question is
not resolved, other issues on Chinese herbal medicine become groundless and
meaningless.
In order to address
this and related issues, ACMA has published the following articles.
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ACMA Publication Issue
May 6a, 2005
This article was first published
at Yahoo TCM Group (Traditional_Chinese_Medicine@yahoogroups.com)
on May 6, 2005.
Mathematical Herbal
Medicine -- (2)
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- Bob Xu, CMD, MS
- Hi
Pete,
The viewpoints in the "Mathematical Herbal Medicine" article are
just published. There is no other publication on this topic yet.
Mathematical Herbal Medicine is a new field. Its goals are to
provide Chinese Herbal Medicine with scientific validity, and to
improve the accuracy, consistency, and reproducibility for the
practice of Chinese Herbal Medicine. This is just a beginning.
Most of its contents need to be developed by everyone here, other
Chinese Medicine practitioners, mathematicians, and experts in other
fields.
Bob Xu
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ACMA Publication Issue
May 6b, 2005
This article was first published
at Yahoo TCM Group (Traditional_Chinese_Medicine@yahoogroups.com)
on May 6, 2005.
Mathematical Herbal
Medicine -- (3)
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- Bob Xu, CMD, MS
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- Attilio,
I agree with you that RCT does not work well for Western medicine
either. In certain sense, RCT has messed up and destroyed the
medicine. A part of the Unified Medicine Project will address this
issue.
It's interesting to see that Western medicine has changed (shifted
and split) its foundation. Because the Mathematical Herbal
Medicine's comparison is with current (post shift or split) Western
medicine, it takes Western medicine's current foundation (anatomical
and physical) in comparison, which is different from that of Chinese
medicine.
I don't have a matured mathematical model yet. Mathematical Herbal
Medicine model will be more complicated than those in physics.
Maybe we cannot see the model in our generation. However, it is
imperative to start working on it now. A field without mathematical
model can hardly be called a scientific field. Hoping more people
(including everyone here, other practitioners, mathematicians, and
experts in other fields, etc.) can join in this endeavor.
Bob Xu
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ACMA Publication Issue
May 7, 2005
This article was first published
at Yahoo TCM Group (Traditional_Chinese_Medicine@yahoogroups.com)
on May 7, 2005.
Mathematical Herbal
Medicine -- (4)
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- Bob Xu, CMD, MS
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- Pete,
Based on the complexity, diversity, and adaptability of Chinese
Herbal Medicine system, I think the Mathematical Herbal Medicine
will have multiple levels, multiple facets, multiple sets, and
multiple categories of mathematical models for the herbal medicine
system. Statistical model is one. There are others.
In short, Mathematical Herbal Medicine is a field rather than one or
two models. The mathematical modeling control should and will exist
at all aspects of diagnostic and treatment processes due to the
characteristics of herbal medicine system.
Bob Xu
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