Volume 2 Issue 3 - June 2006

by Z’ev Rosenberg

The Chinese medical profession appears to be at a crossroads, one requiring some definition of purpose. Practitioners, who want to practice a more open-ended, classically inspired form of Chinese medicine, need to develop a vision of what needs to be accomplished. The historical basis of modern Chinese medicine needs to be studied and absorbed, and educational models need to be developed and expanded. If we cannot define what is unique in our field, the tools and technology of our medicine will eventually be subsumed into biomedicine and the underlying principles and theory will be lost.