The importance of philology and nomenclature in Chinese medicine: The example of Shen in the Han dynasty and the Warring states period

4^th Global Acupuncture & Therapists Annual Meeting and International Conference on Holistic Medicine & Holistic Nursing

July 14-16, 2016 Philadelphia, USA

Edwin Alvarez

Pacific College of Oriental Medicine, USA

Posters & Accepted Abstracts: Altern Integr Med

Abstract :

Standardization has been a pivotal point in authenticating Traditional Chinese Medicine. The variety of terms that have been used over the past few decades has varied from Wiseman to Macciocia. Point function and point usage can have clinical, empirical, and a historical context within the descriptive naming of. Confusion can often arise from one who is first learning or even from an advanced practitioner as to efficacy, usage and function of a particular point. As a very wise good teacher of mine once said, â�?�?In order to study Chinese Medicine from the Classics, one must understand the mind of the person of those times.â�? The word Shen has such a strong loaded meaning when placed in usage in our modern times. Used from a Psychological standpoint, the phrase â�?�?Shen disturbedâ�? has become a diagnosis that can have multiple degrees of understanding. We may jokingly or seriously use it, in a Flawsian manner, but do we really understand to meaning of the word Shen or even the pattern. We must uncover, a more historical context of the Chinese that we use in our medicine so as to better ascertain exactly we it is that we are looking for in diagnosis, and eventually in treatment.

Biography :

Email: ed.win.it@gmail.com