Diagnosis, as a process of communication and understanding between healer and sufferer, is desirable.
Through years of practicing, the healer gains a spontaneous understanding of the patient’s energetic state, and makes a diagnosis. Thus, healing is a prerequisite to diagnosis – the opposite is not true.
In the context of western medical thought, diagnosis is distorted. Medical mainstream holds that diagnosis is a prerequisite to healing, discouraging the beginners in healing. Secondly, diagnosis seeks objectiveness, categorization and terminology of a disease. This process is harmful, because disease is not a self-existing entity, but constitutes a manifestation of the sufferer’s energetic patterns. Thus, medical mainstream distorts the quintessence and the goal of healing, which is the sufferer himself. Western diagnosis is harmful for the healer and the sufferer.
The last 50 years, the exponential technological advancements produced counting devices (computers, ultrasound technology, blood analyzers, CT scans, radioisotopes, etc.) that evaluate the physiological and pathological processes of the human body. The conceited western thought (because of the fire element that dominates in western civilizations) holds that this product of human nature, that is the counting devices, is superior to man. The result is that modern doctors, those who believe that the product (devices) is superior to its producer (man), disconnected the healer from the sufferer, placing technological achievements between them.
However, these devices, which of course are man-made (thus it would be irreverent to condemn them) produce and spread knowledge. Every alternative healer should be able to handle this knowledge. Thus, in this innovative class, we teach a coalescence of the TCM diagnostic patterns (examination of the pulse, tongue, face, case-taking, etc.) with the current western diagnostic methods. Thus, healers will be able to comprehend the language of modern western medicine. E.g., in blood test for general health are counted red blood cells (hematocrit), blood platelets and white blood cells. The number of red blood cells informs us (at least partially) about the condition of Blood-Xue. The number of the blood platelets informs us about the tendency of Blood Stasis, while the number of the white blood cells about the Wei Qi (Defensive Energy).
Curriculum
- Meaning and ethics of diagnosis
- Diagnosis in Huang-Di Nei Jing (Yellow Emperor’s Inner Classic)
- Diagnosis in TCM (general survey, smelling, hearing, touching)
- Case-taking, communication with the patient
- Tongue – face
- Pulse taking
- Biochemical and microbiological tests (general health blood test, urine test, urea, creatinine, spermatogram, etc.)
- Simple X-rays, PET scan, CT scan, ultrasound, thyroid tests, radioisotopes)
- Stethoscope
- Electrocardiograph, braingraph, neurography, myograph
- Physical examination in the context of western medicine