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12       Opinion                                                                                        Oct 1, 2020  Vol. 19  Hani Times
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                  Acupuncture Treatment is Basic of Performing Asian Medicine.




            Acupuncture treatment is an alternative medicine for everybody because it is affordable but
                                                     remarkable in treatment effects.



                                                              needles are designed to stimulate  thought acupuncture treatment  license for acupuncture and
                                                              specific acupuncture points to  was accepted by major health  herbal medicine. The states
                                                              treat a symptom by enhanced  insurance companies and even  issuing separate licenses
                                                              Qi and blood circulation.   the federal government. I believe  for acupuncture and herbal
                                                                                          that acupuncture will be more  medicine do not understand
                                                              Another benefit of acupuncture is  accepted in the US than now  Asian medicine properly.
                                                              easy to learn and to reach a basic  in the future.
                                                              level of acupuncture treatment.                        I have the other concerns for
                                                              Even basic acupuncture  I have concerned that  Asian medicine. In the US, herbal
                                                              techniques could be performed  acupuncture and herbal  medicine is not considered as a
                                                              by people who have not been  medicine have been seemed  form of medicine. It is considered
                                                              trained professionally. As we  to be separated in licensing  as food. There is not enough

         △ Acupuncture treatment is an affordable option for patients.   can easily see that the first and  and education in schools. .In  scientific evidence to support
         사진ⓒAdobeStock_vkph                                   second year of an acupuncture  Asian medicine, acupuncture  the pharmaceutical benefits
                                                              school student can treat simple  and herbal medicine cannot be  of herbal medicine in the US.
                                   of medicine in the US. Also,   symptoms, and conventional  separated. Each modality helps  In contrast, herbal medicines
                                   in China and Japan developed   medical doctors who do not  its strong and weak points. In  have been controlled by the
                                   their own traditional medicine   understand Asian philosophy  general, acupuncture works  government as medicine in
                                   using acupuncture and herbal   are using acupuncture to treat  faster for acute symptoms.  Korea, China, and Japan.
                                   medicine. If I have a chance, I   their patients.      Herbal medicine treats chronic
                                   will discuss the difference and                        symptoms efficiently than acute  I have a new goal to educate
                                   similarities among traditional   Acupuncture treatment has  symptoms.             Asian medicine appropriately.
                                   medicines in Korea, China, and   been considered alternative  Even in California, the  My first goal was to introduce
                                   Japan later.               medicine that helps chronic  acupuncture license allows  Asian medicine to Americans. It
        By David Park, Founder,
                                                              symptoms and side effects  practicing acupuncture  seems successful so far. I will
        South Baylo University
                                   The most significant difference   of conventional medicine.  treatment and prescribing  do my best for the education
                                   between Western and Asian   It could be understood that  herbal medicine but lecture  of herbal medicine along with
        Acupuncture treatment means  medicine is the way to   acupuncture treatment has  hours for acupuncture are a  acupuncture treatment. I would
        treatment sessions through  understand the pathology and   been recommended to replace  lot more than the education  like to see more Americans have
        acupuncture needle and herbal  physiology of the human body.  prescribing opioids at hospitals  of herbs. But other states in  benefited from acupuncture
        medicines. In America, most                           throughout the US. Even twenty  the US using NCCAOM as a  treatment and herbal medicine
        people understand acupuncture as  Asian medicine understands   years ago, no one possible  licensing test issue separate  altogether.
        a needling technique. In Korean,  and treats a patient as a whole
        in comparison, the majority of  body. It means a human’s body,
        people understand acupuncture  mind, spirit, and emotions are   Body and soul can be categorized by the
        treatment is treatment by herbal  in quest for optimal health and
        medicines.                 wellness. Therefore, body, mind,   concept of societies in the philosophy of
                                   spirit, and emotions cannot be                           organism Ⅱ
        Decades earlier, acupuncture  separated and treated. If one
        treatment was more prevalent  part is not working correctly,
        in Korea, but recent trends have  all the other parts will be                      describe one of the dominant   is nested within a relatively
        been changed to weigh more  affected.                    By Simon Kim, L.Ac.,      characteristics of Whitehead’s   friendly environment. With
        on prescribing herbal medicine                           Korea Han Spirit Institute  philosophy of organism. (Olav   this environment, it forms a
                                                                                           Bryant Smith, « The Social   society. (ibid)
        than practicing acupuncture  Asian medicine also understands
                                                                                           Self of Whitehead’s Organic   Therefore, the worldview of the
        treatment. As I recall my  that the human body represents   Some Yinyang Wuxing nexus   Philosophy », European Journal   two philosophies, Qi philosophy
        childhood, every small village  the whole universe, and all parts   display “social order” due   of Pragmatism and American   and the philosophy of organism,
        had at least one acupuncturist,  of the body interact and affect   to shared characteristics   Philosophy [Online], II-1 |   has to be naturally connected
        and acupuncturists took care  the other part. Therefore, to   mutually prehended. This   2010, Online since 01 July 2010)  with ecology. Imagine your
                                                                 mutual prehension of shared   A rock is nothing else than a   existence as matters, cells,
        of minor symptoms such as  improve and enhance health
                                                                 characteristics promotes intensity   society of molecules, indulging   tissues, organs, soul, and spirit
        sprain and strain, burn, even  and wellness, treatment should
                                                                 in the nexus.             in every species of activity open   in every phases of organic/ qi
        removing furuncles. And most  be focused on enhancing the   Whitehead called these nexus   to molecules. This lowly form   societies. They are some kind
        married Korean women used a  homeostasis of the whole body.  with social order societies and   of society lasts billions of years.   of societies themselves. Similar
        traditional hairpin to tight their                       described four major kinds   Human beings are a particularly   world view produces similar
        hair. The end of the hairpin was  Acupuncture treatment   of society: enduring objects,   complex society that is an   concepts as below:
        sharp enough to draw blood  represents Asian medicine. There   corpuscular societies, structured   example of a living society.   Philosophy of Eastern medicine:
                                                                 societies, and living societies.  The human body has adjusted   Union of Heaven and Earth, Qi,
        and used to perform emergency  are also moxabustion, cupping,
                                                                 Given this nesting of societies,   over time to changes in the   Yinyang, Wuxing, Myriad things
        treatment for symptoms like  and scratching techniques,
                                                                 one within the other, in   environment, allowing a  Philosophy of Organism: Pan-
        acute indigestion or stroke.  but acupuncture makes Asian   Whitehead’s view of the world,   dominant, personally ordered,   experientialism, Actual Entity,
                                   medicine distinctive.         one could say that the universe   enduring object, which we   Actual Occasion, Nexus, Society
        Back then, in Korea, acupuncture                         is a vast network of experiential   could refer to as the self, to   In order to integrate these two
        treatment was for ordinary people  Conventional medicine also   entities in relationship with   emerge. The self is nested   philosophies, Eastern medicine
                                                                 one another. Hence the term   within a relatively friendly   and organic philosophy, we can
        who could not afford pricy herbal  uses needles to inject medicine
                                                                 panexperientialism (凡經驗   environment. With the body,   prepare the new publication of
        medicine. The affordability of  into the human body. But
                                                                 主義) has also been used to   it forms a society. The body   the Journal of Qi Society.
        acupuncture treatment is still  acupuncture needles are not
        accepted as one of the benefits  for injection. Acupuncture
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