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Developing My Clinical Vocabulary..

To this day, I continue steadfastly in my effort to bridge the gap of understanding between TCM and Western Medicine. When I started this pursuit, I remember the first thing I did was go and ask Western Medical practitioners, in various fields, how I can make my field more receptive to them. I specifically wanted to know how I could make them appreciate the benefits of the modalities comprising TCM. Most of these clinicians responded by saying that they needed to understand the “clinical” aspects of the medicine more. They, specifically, wanted me to explain to them how the modalities of TCM worked from their perspective and in their terminology.

 

I quickly realized that the first step to gain these Western practitioner’s trust was to change my presentation. The topics I chose to present were fine. However, the method of presentation lacked severely. The first topic I chose top present concerned the mechanisms behind the healing process in TCM such as pain management. However, instead of explaining how pain is treated with terms like “Qi”, “Deficiency”, or “Energy”, I explained the process in the context of how Acupuncture helped to release certain hormones etc. in the bloodstream to treat pain.

 

I cited many research articles that showed how Acupuncture affected the Autonomic Nervous System in alleviating pain. Specifically, I cited how Acupuncture helped the Autonomic Nervous System (ANS) to release of Norepinephrine, Acetylcholine, and other types of Opioids which helped to treat the pain and reduce the inflammation. Another Western clinical explanation I cited from these research articles dealt with the how Acupuncture activates certain receptors in the Dorsal Horn, serving to “gate out” painful stimuli…

 
 
 

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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