Abstract
Acupuncture and the traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) are complex, developed with the philosophical principles and reflecting Chinese thought, which is used to place the human body into a large system through the observation of nature and has been recognized and practiced totreat various diseases and symptoms worldwide. It’s been argued academically and clinically for long whether or not the TCM and acupuncture should be treated as science or pseudoscience
Highlights
Acupuncture and the traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) are complex, developed with the philosophical principles and reflecting Chinese thought, which is used to place the human body into a large system through the observation of nature and has been recognized and practiced totreat various diseases and symptoms worldwide
In addition to the scientific evidence with modern techniques, such as fMRI and CT, to examine the effects of the TCM and acupuncture, it seems to suggest that some key issues deserve attention
The expected treatment and experiment outcomes will not occur until the acupuncture and TCM patterns are followed and taken into the consideration since there exist some fundamental differences between the Western medicine and the TCM, including acupuncture
Summary
Acupuncture and the traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) are complex, developed with the philosophical principles and reflecting Chinese thought, which is used to place the human body into a large system through the observation of nature and has been recognized and practiced totreat various diseases and symptoms worldwide. The Chinese are used to the inductive reasoning for more than five thousand years, compared to deductive reasoning of in the West Based on this reasoning model, the TCM and acupuncture features similarities with Yin-Yang, Qi-Blood, the Five Elements, and Pattern identification in theories. Example, LIV1 (Da Dun) is the most commonly used acupoint in the acupuncture treatment for regulating Qi in the lower jiao and Liver qi to alleviate pain Whether this acupoint is located on the dorsal aspect of the big toe, at the junction of lines drawn along the lateral border of the nail and the base of the nail, approximately 0.1 cun from the corner of the nail [7] or on the lateral side of the terminal phalanx of the great toe, 0.1 cun from the corner of the nail [8] remains controversial in the clinical practice and textbooks. These issues depend on acupuncturists’ wisdom and experience
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