The relationship of promotion restraint and transformation so, in TCM, we can see that Chinese wisdom emphasizes an interconnected way of thinking. It’s essential. Secondly, we emphasize What is the root of TCM? If we take a look at the “Records of Art and Literature” or “Fang Ji Lue” in “the Book of Han”, they both talk about TCM. What is the content about? All of the goals of TCM treatment are to clear paralysis and obstructions, complete the body, and adjust the balance, so it brings balance to the body. When the body is balanced, it is healthy. But when it is unbalanced, it becomes diseased. But this balance isn’t set, it isn’t a rigid standard, it’s a dynamic balance. You might be balanced at one point and then unbalanced at another, and you have to become balanced again. You might be balanced in one part of your body but not in another part of your body, and you seek to achieve balance. I think that this second point is one of the basic goals of Chinese philosophy. Thirdly, TCM emphasize viewing reason as a reason within itself. What does that mean? Emphasizing the difference in individuation, and the differences in constitution, and regions, and seasons, and the varied treatment methods. These methods fit your constitution and the time and the region, are reasonable. This is known as a reason being a reason within itself. It greatly stresses difference and individuality, not just using the same method, and having everyone take the same medicine, and having everyone with a cold take the Cold Medicine No.1, or Beijing residents take Cold Medicine No.1 and Guangzhou residents take Cold medicine No.2. That is the so-called the way that the way follows is itself, and this respects differences and indivduals. It doesn’t require that they be the same. So, I think that in the culture of TCM, we can experience the root idea of Chinese culture, namely interrelationships of the whole, dynamic balance, and reason being a reason within itself. Ok, thank you, Mr. Lou.
Regarding the ideas that Mr. Lou just talked about, it suddenly occur to me to ask if Mr. Chen here could give us a few concrete examples from your many years as a TCM practitioner ? In our clinical treatments, we treated a case which was a gynecologist who was pregnant herself. One of her fallopian tubes had been resected and she still had one left. She finally managed to get pregnant, but when the fetus was five or six months old, when they performed a B-mode ultrasound and a Doppler ultrasound, they saw that the fetus had hydronephrosis and hydrocephalus. Based on everything they understood, they would have to abort the child, because if it was born, it would have a defect or be stillborn. However, there is a TCM theory which tells about the relationship between mother and child. Nourishing the mother will strengthen the child. So they had this pregnant woman take medicine every day until she gave birth, and in the end, this child was a baby boy who weighed in at 4.1 kg. As you know, babies nutrition comes through the umbilical cord from the mother. So after the mother took this medicine, many of this child’s symptoms were resolved.