Leung Ping-Chung - Xue Charlie Changli - Cheng Yung-Chi - A comprehensive guide to chinese medicine


Authors : Leung Ping-Chung - Xue Charlie Changli - Cheng Yung-Chi
Title : A comprehensive guide to chinese medicine
Year : 2003

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Foreword. This book of essays seeks to assess the place of traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) in the context of the immense advances in scientific medicine. It meets a growing need, as many Chinese observe with keen interest, the advances in TCM methodologies but wonder how scientific they really are. This is particularly true of people who long for a health and wellness approach towards illness in place of one that puts the emphasis on being curative in more invasive ways. Most Chinese have an ambivalence about TCM that can be traced back to the 19th century when Western hospitals were introduced into China and the European colonies. Some Chinese were quick to see their advantages, while others were gradually persuaded that Western methods work better for some kinds of illness. Increasingly, most Chinese realised that doctors who were professionally trained would make more reliable physicians. So much so that TCM practitioners have themselves sought to make their heritage more scientific in order to gain back their credibility. This volume of essays should go a long way towards detailing the valuable relationship between TCM and modern medicine in recent decades. I recall, when still in high school, I heard that two out of the first three Chinese Queen's scholars from Malaya in the 19th century chose to study medicine in British universities. They were Lim Boon Keng (Lin Wenqing) and Ng Lean Tuck (Wu Liande). I later discovered that this story was similar to the one in Hong Kong where students like Ho Kai (He Qi) not only had a brilliant academic record, but was also one of the founders of the first modern medical college in Hong Kong in 1887. The college produced Sun Yat-sen, one of the first two graduates in Western medicine on Chinese soil, who was to provide a modern world view that changed the course of Chinese history. The college later became the fore-runner of the Faculty of Medicine, University of Hong Kong, now one of the most prestigious medical schools in Asia. Elsewhere too, medical colleges seem to be the first European institutions that Asians everywhere wanted for their children. Another story reflecting an ongoing ambivalence comes to mind. The famous philanthropist, Tan Kah Kee (1874-1960) wrote in his memoirs how he tried in the 1890s to print copies of the best available TCM prescriptions for distribution among the poor in the villages in China. Decades later, in the 1940s, he remembered with regret how he had failed in his efforts. This was despite his own conversion to the efficacy of Western medicine and his fervent wish for Lim Boon Keng, the graduate of the University of Edinburgh whom he had invited to be the president of Xiamen University, to establish a medical school there during the 1920s. Tan Kah Kee's attitude reflects well a similar deepseated ambivalence that survives till the present day. In 1965, while in Kuala Lumpur, I was invited to sit on the Commission of Traditional Medicine. This led me to read more about the subject, and of particular interest was the work of two modern doctors that brought TCM and scientific medicine together in a book entitled History of Chinese Medicine (published in 1936). It was written by Wong Chi-min of Hong Kong and Ng Lean Tuck of Malaya, and it clearly represented the classic agnostic approach that still prevails among the Chinese today. But, in the 1960s, there was a hardening of views among the products of Western medical schools in Malaysia. This was so even when those in Europe, North America and Australasia were becoming more open to various kinds of alternative medicines. I recall reading many negative comments about TCM practitioners and challenges to them to have their work scientifically assessed. Nevertheless, our conclusions were not clear-cut. It was felt that popular demand for TCM could not be ignored and that, given the evidence available, we should reach an open verdict on TCM as the most prominent of the alternative systems found in Malaysia at the time. This volume of essays confirms that the decision reached 35 years ago was an appropriate one. Much has happened since then. Some of the best scientists around the world, not least the large numbers of TCM practitioners and their students in major medical institutions, have begun to test all aspects of Chinese medicine in an increasingly thorough way. The essays show that they are much better placed now to determine what areas are scientifically verifiable, what areas are likely to remain unprovable with current scientific methods, and what are potentially fruitful for future research. The judgments are clear and sharp on some topics and judicious and nuanced for others. They make for a summation of collective wisdom that many readers will find both impressive and reassuring. Gungwu Wang. East Asian Institute. National University of Singapore. ...

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