For any of us hoping to be acupuncturists/ herbalists this is very important. With that said, part of Chinese Medicine becoming more accepted and respected in the west is going to have to come from a shift toward a more open viewpoint for people of the west. Aren't scientists and M.D's required to take basic cultural anthropology classes.?.. It seems like many people in the United States are very unclear on the concepts of ethnocentrism and and cultural relativism. As people open up and realize that there is more than one way to see reality, there will be more awareness of how stuck we have been on one eurocentric viewpoint.
It is nice to see some western clinical 'proof' that Chinese Medicine works, or that Qi ( or an element of Qi) is actually measurable. I think that these studies do help many people to respect Chinese Medicine more.
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