Points Newsletter - June 2007

The original article was a report on a cohort study conducted in Shenyuan, Liaoning. Dr. Cha works at the Chinese Medical Research Institute in Shenyuan. According to Dr. Cha, diabetes can be divided into four basic patterns. These are the heat and dryness pattern, the damp heat pattern, the qi and blood vacuity pattern and the yin and yang vacuity pattern. In the following study, Dr. Cha determined treatment based on these four patterns with good clinical outcomes. I have chosen to translate and publish this article for two reasons. The first is because of the rapidly growing incidence of diabetes mellitus, and the second is because I find Dr. Cha’s protocol easy to implement clinically.

Qi is Everything - Everything is Energy - Qi is Energy
By Jacob Godwin, L.Ac., M.A.O.M.

What is the difference between the scientific postulate above and our own postulations on Qi found in our fundamental theory textbook, or those found in Daoism, the founding philosophy of Oriental medicine? The word Qi is simply and consistently a term we use to remain in deference to the simple truth stated above that everything is one continuous field of energy. Science knows this as do the mystics. The two are saying the same things about the same world. Our predecessors in the healing arts weren’t delusional. People lived and died by the healers’ abilities. Scientists certainly aren’t delusional. We’ve built a civilization like none seen on this planet before (that we know of).