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: Tools from Chinese Medicine for coping with Covid-19
Those of us who practice Chinese Medicine have noticed that in China the physicians treating people with Covid-19 employ Western and Chinese Medicine at the same time. There is something strange and wonderful about this phenomenon. The perspective of Western Medicine is that only one paradigm can accurately describe reality, and Western Medicine claims to have the one and only correct paradigm. Rare is the physicians trained in Western Medicine who also employs other models of medicine, yet Chinese physicians set an example of using both paradigms simultaneously. One reason to use two medical models is that when both styles of medicine successfully dispel disease, using both of them provides more tools for the job at hand. Another reason to pair them is that one model will address a need that the other does not.