This article shares preliminary results from current research on Chinese medicine in Nashville,Tennessee,a city in the American South known both as“Music City,USA”and“The Buckle of the Bible Belt.”The author has i...This article shares preliminary results from current research on Chinese medicine in Nashville,Tennessee,a city in the American South known both as“Music City,USA”and“The Buckle of the Bible Belt.”The author has interviewed dozens of patients and practitioners in Nashville to understand how Chinese medicine came to the city,what styles of practice are present,and whether or not new understandings of Chinese medicine’s fundamental concept of qi might emerge from the unique cultural setting of the American South.While Chinese medicine is flourishing in the city,because of complexities at the intersection of religion,science,and the experience of healing,the clinical encounter between patients and practitioners is not typically characterized by a mutual embrace of a language of qi.展开更多
This paper expounds the effect of"Qi"on human body by constructing the model of Qi,classifies the parts according to the category of Yin and Yang on the coordinate frame of 5 models of Yin and Yang,and compa...This paper expounds the effect of"Qi"on human body by constructing the model of Qi,classifies the parts according to the category of Yin and Yang on the coordinate frame of 5 models of Yin and Yang,and compares each kind of parts according to the normal image state of human body.with the running direction of integer instead of Qi,the number of Qi in each part is calculated by the method of modern number theory,and the development and changes of human physiology and diseases are explained by"Qi".To explore the Trasitional Chinese Medicine treatment method of"the morbid Qi state of the human body adjusts the qi mode,the direction of qi operation and the intensity of Qi by means of medicinal taste and acupuncture,and returns to the normal state of qi balance mode in the direction of operation".展开更多
文摘This article shares preliminary results from current research on Chinese medicine in Nashville,Tennessee,a city in the American South known both as“Music City,USA”and“The Buckle of the Bible Belt.”The author has interviewed dozens of patients and practitioners in Nashville to understand how Chinese medicine came to the city,what styles of practice are present,and whether or not new understandings of Chinese medicine’s fundamental concept of qi might emerge from the unique cultural setting of the American South.While Chinese medicine is flourishing in the city,because of complexities at the intersection of religion,science,and the experience of healing,the clinical encounter between patients and practitioners is not typically characterized by a mutual embrace of a language of qi.
文摘This paper expounds the effect of"Qi"on human body by constructing the model of Qi,classifies the parts according to the category of Yin and Yang on the coordinate frame of 5 models of Yin and Yang,and compares each kind of parts according to the normal image state of human body.with the running direction of integer instead of Qi,the number of Qi in each part is calculated by the method of modern number theory,and the development and changes of human physiology and diseases are explained by"Qi".To explore the Trasitional Chinese Medicine treatment method of"the morbid Qi state of the human body adjusts the qi mode,the direction of qi operation and the intensity of Qi by means of medicinal taste and acupuncture,and returns to the normal state of qi balance mode in the direction of operation".
