From Antiquity to Modernity: Huang Qin Tang at Yale Medical School, Part 1
By Changzhen Gong, PhD
Traditional Chinese medicine is a coherent medical system with
several unique characteristics: it originated almost 3,000 years ago; in
its area of origin, it has been practiced without interruption since
its inception.
Although there is some affinity between traditional Chinese medicine,
which is based on ancient Chinese metaphysics, and classic Western
medicine, which was based on ancient Greek metaphysics, it is true that
at this point in history traditional Chinese medicine is a very
different system from modern conventional medicine.
For more than one hundred years, the possibility of "modernizing"
traditional Chinese medicine and integrating it with conventional
Western medicine has been fiercely debated. China began this integrative
process by applying modern scientific research standards to TCM
modalities and by practicing both systems of medicine on an equal
footing in its hospitals. More recently, researchers in the United
States have joined the ongoing effort to reconcile Eastern and Western
systems of medicine as exemplified by a study of the classical Chinese
herbal formula Huang Qin Tang (Scutellaria Decoction) which was conducted at Yale Medical School.
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