Semantics

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…