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                                   first acupuncture school   believe TCM represents  only country practicing  professors have Western
                                   established in 1970’s. It   all Asian medicine even  acupuncture and herbal  medicine background and
                                   seemed impossible to       Korea and Japan also have  medicine.                   chiropractic degree at SBU.
                                   find right professors for   been developing distinctive  Everything   has    been  Major trend in 21st century
                                   English classes. Also, there   medical system respec-  changed.    Acupuncture  medical field is integrative
                                   were a few Asian Medicine   tively. I and community  schools have more options  medicine. In order to treat
                                   textbooks    written    in   leaders from Japanese and  for choosing textbooks  patient more efficiently,
                                   English.                   9LHWQDPHVH ¿OHG FRPSODLQWV  and   the   schools   have  acupuncturists should
                                                              together to government  more   chance   for   hiring  work with other healthcare
                                   I decided to study Asian   asking to replace TCM to  professors for their Korean,  professionals. I have dream.
                                   Medicine    and    taught   Oriental medicine.         Chinese,   and   English  One day, acupuncturists
                                   students. Even, I only had   Finally, state government  classes.   Also,   there was  take    major    role    in
                                   experiences for lecturing   announced that it was more  increasing number of South  leading other healthcare
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                                   well explained the Asian
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                                   I wanted to translate all                               of Qi and Yin and Yang   opponent Yin and vice versa.
        In 1977, I spent months for  contents of “Popular Asian                            are the logic to explain the   The notion of reciprocity is
        naming of the school for  Medicine” in English           I believe that you, the   nature of Qi world. Then,   completely different from
                                                                 readers of Acupuncture    what is the NATURE in the   the relative concept (ཌྷ
        acupuncture. I wanted to  by professors in Korean
                                                                 times, are holding your own   philosophy of Qi and the   Ớ). The reciprocity is not
        have a name that contains  Medicine schools. I visited
                                                                 view of Yin and Yang theory.   Eastern medicine? It is an   same as opposite concept
        and expresses spirits of  Kyunghee College of Korean     My interpretation of Yin   organic nature including life   (ّỚ) as well. Is day and
        Asian Medicine and Korean  Medicine, which the first     and Yang is a very limited   force, emotional activity,   night a relative concept or
        values; continual pursuing  established in Korea to      portion of the theory of Yin   and spiritual realm. Only   a reciprocity concept? How
        and devotion to achieve  educate acupuncturists and      and Yang in the context of   through this organic view   about man and woman?
        outstanding academic  Korean Medicine, to offer a        the Eastern medicine. The   of nature, we can secure   We can figure out that
                                                                 notion of Yin and Yang is   the natural world where   most concepts in ordinary
        achievements.              project to translation of the
                                                                 one of the most pervasive   the acupuncture points and   language depend on
        Finally, a Chinese phrase  book. Unfortunately, the
                                                                 ideas that can be found in   meridians exist in the human   reciprocity, not on opponent
        came into my mind, න∱      project failed.               the various areas of the East   body. It is explained that the   or relative concepts.
        ྮ஡၂ਫ਼. Korean reads                                       Asian intellectual tradition.   multiplication of original Qi
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        the Chinese characters like  5 years later of my project   However, as is the case with   is activated by Yin and Yang   of original Qi does not mean
        ‘Sa Woo Soo Bay Il Lo’. It  failed, many valuable Asian   the conceptual translation   in the classical text. From   Yin and Yang dichotomy
                                                                 of Qi, the concept of Yin and   myriad things to the human
        sounds like South Baylo in  medical textbooks which                                                         (dichotomy: a division or
                                                                 Yang cannot be translated   body, there is nothing that
        English and its meaning  were firstly published                                                             contrast between two things
                                                                 into any philosophical or   cannot be seen as Yin and
        of combined Chinese  in Chinese then were                ordinary term in the west.   Yang structure.       that are represented as
        characters could represent  translated in English        The meaning of Yin and    There are two premises in   being opposed or entirely
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        what I wanted to express  by Shanghai University         Yang defies a word to word   cognitive structure and logic   expresses the reciprocity
        best for express spirits of  of Traditional Chinese      translation in a comparative   of explanation in Yin and   logic kindly. The Yin and
        Asian Medicine and Korean  Medicine, were started to     philosophical context.    Yang. One is the reciprocity   Yang reciprocity is a way of
                                                                 The notion of Qi cannot be   which means that one thing
        values.                    be imported in US.                                                               thinking that carries time
                                                                 explained without Yin and   is given or done or owed
                                   All acupuncture schools       Yang. The concept of Yin   to each other (րỚ). The   and mobility in the process
        “Among the organs in the  in the U.S. started to use     and Yang is complementary.   other is an infinite fractal   of Qi realization. I would
        body, one always keeping  the books from China.          I referred Joseph Needham   structure. Let me explain the   call this organic synthesis
                                                                                                                    of Yin Qi and Yang Qi as the
        on working is Yin organs.  Since then, people started    mentioning about the      reciprocity of Yin and Yang   reciprocity of Qi organism.
        By contrast, Yang organs  calling Asian medicine         VFLHQWL¿F PDNLQJ RI VR FDOOHG   ¿UVW               Yin and Yang are not
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        The  phrases  are  from  Medicine (TCM). Even,                                                              determined in the context
                                                                 the concept of Yin and    everything is composed of an
        the  first  part  of  Cho,  State of California officially   Yang is elusive in terms of   organic Yin and Yang. Now,   RI 4L GL̆HUHQWLDWLRQ DQG
        Hyunyoung’s(1902~1988)  used the term TCM for            modern science. The notion   my writing on the computer   reciprocity relation. This
                                                                                                                    point that Yin and Yang
        “Popular Asian Medicine”.  indication Asian medicine     of Yin and Yang has been   is consists of positive and
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        , OHFWXUHG P\ ¿UVW DFXSXQF   for long. That is history of   criticized as a mystified and   negative bits of computer   contextual in all of Qi
        ture students 40 years ago  introduction of a term, TCM   nonscientific terminology.   algorithm. A body system   realization can be explained
                                                                 That is a reason why most   is a typical one of organic
        and I used the book for the  in the US.                                                                     by fractal theory.  5P CF
                                                                 scholars deny basic ideas of   synthesis of Yin and Yang.   DPOUJOVFE OFYU FEJUJPO
        class textbook.
                                                                 the Eastern medicine such   Yin and Yang relationship is
        South Baylo was one of the  Still, many Americans
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