TCM has a long and strong record of healing and bringing about
balance in peoples lives. It is still the preferred medicine by the people
of China
simply because unlike Big Pharma, it
heals and does no harm.
You may have just noted that we (The US) had to borrow an ungodly amount of
money from China
to try and bail our own country out of
debt. Yes, part of China
may be an “evil empire” but other parts
of that nation are yielding fruits that we can sadly not survive without.
The true root of TCM goes back about 4,000 years to the Taoists
who came up with the theory of yin and yang, of a life force in God’s
creation called Qi, (Or Chi) a defining of the five elements in
God's creation (Water, wood, fire, earth and metal) and most
importantly the concept of a creator for all of these things (The One who
holds Yin an Yang and everything in the universe together) whom they
called the Sheng Di which translates into "Heavenly
Father/Creator."
So are we stating that Qi is one in the same with the Holy Spirit?
Absolutely and definitely not! I have heard this
bizarre statement before from some very confused people and then I
begin to understand why some think TCM is a cult! Qi is just the flow of
God’s creative energy living within us and all that He created. I believe
it is the created force of life that God breathed into Adam and all the
living creatures God created before man. In TCM there are two kinds of Qi
in our bodies: These are what the TCM herbal doctor calls “Earth Qi” or digestive Qi derived
from what we eat and “Heaven Qi” derived from the air we
breathe
Now Please Note!
These concepts (Yin,Yang, Qi, and the 5 elements) from these great
philosiphers truly did point to God and his wonderful creations in many
ways. Also these concepts became a wonderful foundation for the
greatest medical system on earth. However, This does
NOT mean I stand behind everything in the Book Of
Tao! (Quite the contrary) They did not know God as did the Rabbis in
Israel at the time. I simply find it amazing that they
Reasoned that there was a loving
creator! Also I would like to point out that these wise men (The
Taoists) were just philosiphers and were not any kind of
"religeous cult" as many would have you believe.
Remember, Traditional Chinese Medicine has nothing to do
with Aryuveda (The traditional medicine of
India ) which truly does
have ties to a demonic world. (although there herbs
are fine - just more of Gods creation)
Qi or Chi (pronounced chee) is a difficult concept to
translate. It’s usually left un-translated because there is no single
English word that conveys all parts of the Chinese concept. The word that
comes closest is energy. Qi
flows throughout the body in currents or conduits called channels or
meridians or in Chinese; the Jing Luo. There are fourteen main channels
and these possess the most commonly used acupuncture points. Twelve of
these channels connect to a yin or yang organ from which they derive their
name.
For example, the wood element’s yin organ is the liver. The
liver channel runs from the foot (Between the big toe and the next) up the
inside of the leg, along the center of one-half of the abdomen and goes
inside below the sixth rib. Inside it connects to the liver and the
gallbladder, goes up through the diaphragm, up to the throat, then the
eyes and terminates at the vertex of the skull. There are two branches
from the liver channel. One which connects to the inside of the lips and
one which connects with the lung.
This is simply a
study of the flow of the energy created in us. There is nothing
“spiritual” in it at all except for a wonderful acknowledgment that a
loving Heavenly Father created all this within us. This is nothing
different than the western knowledge of anatomy being known and then being
thankful to our loving God for His wisdom in creating it.
Then there are, of course, God’s first living creations on
Earth to be considered: These are what we call the plants and herbs. Just
like all creation in the universe, Animal, vegetable or mineral, water
wood fire earth and metal, these created plants are all subject to yin and
yang. Aha! Yin and yang! Now we are getting
to the cult material right?Well if day and night, hot and cold, big and
small, wet and dry, in and out, servant and master etc. is a sign of a
cult then we are all in big trouble! Yin and yang are simply a completed
“ball of energy” called the Tai Qi by the Taoists symbolizing all that is
under Gods creation from one end to the other. Is that so hard and
mysterious to understand?
OK, now we gotcha! What about that “satanic
pentagram” looking thing you always see in TCM books? This is
simply a chart explaining the way the body’s five main systems symbolized
by the five elements affect each other. The 5 systems genarate (Support)
each other as a continuing circle eg. Liver (Wood) supports heart (Fire)
as heart supports stomach and spleen (Earth) etc. The lines inside the
circle show the organs that can overcome (Work against) each other in
disharmony. Since there are
five organ systems the lines inside will naturally form a “star”. This
chart simply explains the functions of TCM diagnostics and is quite a
valuable learning tool.
The Taoists certainly did not ‘”worship” the five elements.
If anything they worshiped the Sheng Di (Heavenly Father/creator) who
created the 5 elements. However cults like the druids and wiccans who
worship satan and the 5 elements perverted this wonderful early medical
chart and used it for their symbol drawing the head of a goat (Symbolizing
satan) within the “star”. Satan will always try to pervert a good or
Godly thing.
As with everything in existence, all herbs are subject to
yin and yang and have hot or cold, wet or dry (etc.-etc.) energies. A good
herbalist can taste and determine these energies on his tongue or feel a
hot or cold energy in his body after ingesting part of the plant. This is
how over the last 3,000 years eight thousand plants were grouped into
their categories of yin and yang and also how the organ systems that the
plants affected were determined.
In its very basics TCM states that a healthy body will have
a perfect balance of yin and yang. When there is any disease or disorder
there is a yin or yang factor that is out of balance. As an example, fever
is yang (heat) overtaking yin (cold) . The answer is to ingest a plant
with strong yin energy or cooling factors. There is nothing “spiritual”
here, just good common sense.
So what about
those “evil” acupuncture needles? Is this some kind of "Chinese
Voodoo"? Remember the pathways that Qi (our God given life
energy) flows through? Well the herbs are the medicine to change, within
our bodies, hot into cold, wet into dry, etc., and these herbal energies
travel through these pathways or meridians carrying energy that can
correct many imbalances. (This is why TCM herbal medicine is often called
“Energy Medicine” It is only logical, nothing “deep" and "out there”)
Tracing the flow of the
plant’s energy through the meridians we find there are some places where
it can get a bit “stuck” sometimes. Inserting needles into these points
just helps get things unstuck. Again there is nothing “spiritual”
involved, just plain logic. What is not logical is these modern
“acupuncturists” that don’t know the first thing about TCM herbal
medicine. The first and foremost tool in TCM is our God given plants. I
have no Idea how or why so many “acupuncturists” have put the cart before
the horse. The TCM doctor is considered the herbal doctor,
period. (However many of these acupuncturists have become very good
with un-sticking Qi)
Now when we consider other kinds of “alternative” medicine
besides herbs and TCM do we give it all the same pass? Not on your
life!
Aryuveda (The traditional
medicine of
India)
definitely has ties to deities and demons and was originally based
on the dung and urine of animals for treatment mostly. However,
now they use mostly herbs and their herbal medicine does work but.... "No
thanks just the same!" Heres why:
Deepak Chopra (The
self proclaimed modern "guru" of aryuveda writes, ". . . the seeds of
God are inside us. . . . When we make the journey of the spirit, we water
these divine seeds. . . . In the eyes of the spirit, everyone is innocent,
in all senses of the word. Because you are innocent, you have not done
anything that merits punishment or divine wrath." . . . I'm
sorry folks but that just sounds like satan to me! - "All our
righteousness are as filthy rags" (Is. 64:6), "There is none
righteous, no not one" (Rom. 3:10). These scriptures refer to our
self-righteousness, which can never bring us into fellowship with God
because "all have sinned and come short of the glory of God" (Rom. 3:23).
I am afraid Deepak is in for a very nasty suprise!
TCM herbal medicine is truly a gift from God (No mater who
came up with it) It is a gift to all mankind and therefore I believe
Christians should benefit from it the most! There is, however, also a
whole cesspool of “gobbly-gook” out there in the world of "alternative
medicine" so we must be very careful to not let any of the wrong hands be
laid on us. However nothing comes as close to the root of all evil
as our very own Big Pharma! Think about it! This is the most important
part of the story and can be read by going here: Big Pharma And Our Christian
Faith
Formulators Of Natural
Medicine
