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The First Hurdle II

…Initially, I did use terms like “Qi”, “Energy”, “Stagnation” when describing the philosophy behind the treatment protocols or procedures of TCM. The look and response on the majority of those faces will forever be imprinted in my mind. After my explanations, most of the MD’s felt that my words just reinforced their opinions about Chinese Medicine as being non-scientific or even “Quackery”. Yes, I get a chuckle when I reflect about those times now but, believe me, it was not at all humorous at that time.

 

To say I felt that I had no credibility with my colleagues in the local healthcare market would be an understatement. I also started to feel inadequate in my standing as a healthcare provider. Though many of my fellow TCM practitioners did warn me about the perception of TCM by society, in general, I had to experience the disdain first hand for my eyes to really open.

 

I could never have imagined that I would experience this sort of indifference from my Western colleagues when I opened my practice. Due to this, I started to reflect on why this was occurring. First thing I did was to step back and look at TCM through the eyes of a Western practitioner. I determined the main reason that I could not connect with the Western practitioners was because I did not speak their language, specifically in clinical terms. I realized that these practitioners took as much pride in their years of study as I did with TCM.

 

Thus, they only appreciated discussing any clinical issues in the “language” they learned and conversed in. Basically, they want to hear and speak terminology that fits into their learned paradigm. In the West, this means that they are comfortable in discussing medicine in the clinical language that is derived from Greek and European origin. I concluded that the primary reason that I turned them off was because I didn’t speak their language. I was speaking with them in TCM language.

 

To rectify this issue, I knew I had to reorient my presentation to them in the language they respect. After doing this, I have had much better success in educating my Western counterparts about TCM and, most importantly, gaining their trust with regards to the integrity behind TCM.

The effects of the COVID virus is being felt in the healthcare community, in a big way. I’m sure that this is not a revelation to most of you. However, I’m also confident that most of you are not appreciating just how the manner in treating patients is being affected.

 

As I have explained before, what makes TCM so unique is the natural manner that a practitioner uses to both diagnose and treat. What I mean by natural is how TCM practitioner uses his own senses, such as touch and feel, as instruments to treat a patient. With the advent of policies such as wearing masks/face shields or the need now to perform temperature checks on every patient has definitely altered the pristine nature of the treatment. Yes, I am speaking from personal experience of my current treatment of patients.

 

However, as with any factor that causes such a change to society, there are avenues by which members of society can help to curb the intensity of these effects. Most of you appreciate that COVID is a virus and thus there are symptoms that are associated with it, as with any other virus like the flu. The Western medical community naturally looks to treat such a virus, like COVID, by finding artificial means.

 

What do I mean by artificial means? If you are keeping up with the Western medical establishment’s response, you should be realizing that they feel that a vaccine is the surest way to combat the virus. They push this vaccine without listing the ingredients in the vaccine and publishing any trials that this vaccine is going through. However, what is most pertinent to this blog is their lack of acknowledging the natural means that are effective in treating, at the very least, the symptoms of the virus.

 

In the next blog, I will address how certain TCM protocols are very effective in treating COVID symptoms…

 
 
 

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