Let’s ease into this topic. Just outlining some questions here.
What do we call our medicine? Here are some terms, which don’t even go into herbalism:
- Whole Systems-Traditional Chinese Medicine (WS-TCM)
- Traditional East Asian Medicine (TEAM)
- Oriental Medicine (OM)
- Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine (AOM)
- Classical Chinese Medicine (CCM)
- Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM)
- Medical Acupuncture
- Chinese Acupuncture and Moxibustion
- AcuMoxa Therapy
- Five-Element Acupuncture
- Japanese Acupuncture
- Meridian Therapy
- and many more…
So… how do we define our terms?
What is “medical?”
How define in terms that are also meaningful to policy-makers, hospitals, public, etc?
DIAGNOSIS, Pattern differentiation, Point Selection… WHO trying to define these terms…
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