Page 12 - Acupuncture Times Sep. 2020

12 Opinion Sep 1, 2020 Vol. 18 Hani Times
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I Want to Publish a Book that Introduces More of Acupuncture Theories

I also want to educate my students who can merge benefits from Eastern and Western medicines.

textbooks for the English from Kyunghee University. for my students and hiring a
program students. It is not Five years later, of meeting professor. In the beginning,
hard to find suitable books, but with the school principal I had difficulties from
back then, it was not simple of Kyunghee University, professors from Korea and
to find any. acupuncture and herbal China. Because practicing
It was hard but manageable medicine related textbooks environment and relating
for the operation of Korean were started to be imported laws were different from
and Chinese programs by from Shanghai, China. I did here California. I tried hard
inviting professors from Korea not have a choice of using to educate professors from
and China. But I could not books from China. At that Korea and China to inform
find a professor or a single moment, it was not strange that my students to cope with
textbook for the education of Traditional Chinese Medicine laws and regulations of the
acupuncture theory. represented and considered California Acupuncture Board
The book I introduce earlier, as all acupuncture and herbal and culture in California.
‘Fundamentals of Acupuncture medicine. Now, I have professors who
for Us All’ was a solution for I felt something was wrong graduated from South Baylo
my English program. I started calling TCM as representing University and are lecturing
to translate the text for my all acupuncture and herbal courses in the school. Alumni
lecture and seemed the contents medicine. So I asked the professors and students
of the book were accepted as acupuncture board for changing seemed comfortable with
I planned. names from TCM to Oriental each other, and they share
△ The cover page of ‘Fundamentals of Acupuncture for us I felt I need to have a more Medicine, which had a broader a common culture.
all’ that fist printed in 1936 written by Cho, Hun Young. professional translation of the meaning. I tried to change I have achieved a lot more
textbook that I had used for the name of the medicine for than I dreamed of 43 years
my English program. I traveled ten years. Then, the name ago. Recently, I have new
for Us All’ is still considered to visit Kyunghee University, changed officially from TCM goals to achieve. First, I would
the best book explaining Seoul, Korea, which first started to Oriental Medicine. Laster, like to educate more students
acupuncture theory in modern education acupuncture and the name Oriental Medicine capable of merging merits
natural language and Western herbal medicine in 1971 for turned to the current term from conventional medicine
scientific point of view. a licensed acupuncturist in for acupuncture and herbal and traditional medicine. The
During the Japanese occupation, Korea. During a meeting medicine as Asian Medicine. second goal is that I would
the Japanese colonial government with the school principal, I It has been 43 years since I found like to publish a textbook
tried to educate Korean people asked for help. Unfortunately, South Baylor University. Things to introduce more in-depth
By David Park, Founder of that Korean acupuncture things were not done as I have been changed, and now I knowledge of acupuncture
South Baylo University was not a scientific and old- wanted. I failed to get help have more choices for textbooks and herbal medicine.
fashioned skill full of a mixture
of non-logical thinking and
“Organs that work continuously superstition. ‘Fundamentals Body and soul can be categorized by the
until the end of life are Yin, of Acupuncture for Us All’
and the other organs that work confronted head-on against concept of societies in the philosophy of
only needed are Yang. Like the the Japanese policy. organism.
lungs and the heart are keep on The best of Cho’s book is
working to maintain life, and explained acupuncture theory in
they are Yin and such as the common and modern language perception. life and spirit is a universal and
stomach, the large intestine, to make people who do not By Simon Kim, Professor, The Kantian doctrine of the valid common-sense experience
and the small intestine work have acupuncture background South Baylo University objective world as a construct that anyone can have.
from subjective experience. If the conception of Jingqi and
only under the condition for understand. The author made
(Whitehead, Process and Reality, Shen (精氣神) is denied, there is
digestion. Otherwise, the acupuncture theory easier The reason for completing the 1978: 156) nothing more to say about the
digestive tract is not working, by comparing it to Western cosmology of materialism in As revealed in Plato's view worldview of Asian medicine
and they are Yang.” medical science. The author modern philosophy is simple. This of the universe in Timaeus, based on then I Ching's view of
An explanation of Yin and Yang emphasized that Eastern and is because nature is defined as a the reality of nature is a life. Yinyang-Wuxing contains
substance that can be understood combination of existence and the concept of continuing life
organs from ‘Fundamentals of Western medicines are all great
only in terms of quantity. This creation. In other words, it is and spirit, which is the throne
Acupuncture for Us All.’ The and have their benefits, but the
is because nature is assumed to the alteration of being and of nature. Now is the time to
famous book was first printed in two medicines share one ultimate be perceived only by the sense becoming. The experience of explain that the concept of
1936 in Korea, written by Cho, goal to preserve human life as perception. And above all, it is nature is a feedback between all things (萬物) in East Asian
Hun Young(1900~1988). The free from illness and diseases. because material nature, which Yin/ Yang and AE/ AO which philosophy agrees with the
author Cho, Hun Young, was an Due to the medicines deal is composed of the subjective represent existence and creation. concept of society in the organic
acupuncturist and politician, and with the same object, there experience of the perceiver, When the creative becoming philosophy. In the previous
was considered an objective part disappeared in nature, columns, The Union of Heaven
he self-educated acupuncture should be ways for Eastern
world itself. Whitehead criticizes the concept of life became and Human (June), Yin Yang
theory. He also protested the and Western medicines are
these three false ideas in a impossible. Whitehead was and the Wuxing (July, August)
Japanese government’s policy to in accordance. following summary: searching for a model of the were explained in parallel with
disparage Korean acupuncture The substance-quality doctrine self and its experience of the Whitehead's cosmology and
during the Japanese occupation As I found the South Baylor of actuality. world that was adequate to our basic concepts.
(1910~1945). The book, University and started giving The sensationalist doctrine of experience. The experience of (→ Continued Next Issue)
‘Fundamentals of Acupuncture lectures, it was tough to find