TCM and recipe-making

“If one can, therefore, apply certain knowledge from CCM to
WM, inversely it is just as easily understood that it’s possible
to apply certain knowledge from WM to CCM.

But to do it systematically, without mutual exchange, in an
environment of a preponderance of WM, risks over-Occidentalizing
acupuncture. If there is too much desire to conform to scientism,
CCM will lose its identity and its natural essence.

In this way, we observe that the present tendency, both in
China and Vietnam, is especially to develop herbal medicine or
points of acupuncture as some sort of “recipe”. This
course is dedicated to failure because the extreme energetic variability
of the individual is barely taken into account. One consequently
only attaches importance to the primary, simplistic bases of CCM,
a phenomenon dictated not only by medical misjudgment but especially
by the profit motives of commerce and economic demands.

As a result, fundamental investigations are neglected for profit
gains and immediate results.”

-from Preface to Huang Di Nei Jing Ling Shu, Vol 3 by Drs. Nguyen, Tran, and Recours-Nguyen

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