Week 9 - Synthesis of East & West

The fundamental principles of the east allow for synthesis with all things. The principles of the west a more exclusionary. The west has little flexibility and therefore is less likely to synthesize but rather test and then claim ideas from others. an example of this can be seen in China where a mixture of eastern and western medicine has been fairly successful. The west is much farther behind in terms of adopting eastern medicine.

I think this will be the challenge for many of us, trying to present acupuncture as a complimentary, as opposed to alternative medicine.