Submitted by sergoparia on Sun, 10/16/2011 - 2:28am
Hi everyone.
I just attended the live webinar with Robert Doane.
It was about the getting rid of upper body pain using the Balancing method.
It is new to me and I was quite shocked by some statements Robert Doane did at that meeting:
-Qi as the energy is not the right translation,
-The meridians do not exist and it is all about the blood vessels pathways.
-It is all the fault of some french translator who did not get the old Chinese texts right.
He proclaims to have "the busiest acupuncture clinic in North America". If it is true, he must know what he is talking about.
However , personally I have difficulty to buy that. That approach raises in my head a lot more questions than the answers.
Let's say he is right and that poor french diplomat did messed up translating the old books. Yes, he took word Mai as an energetic pathway and not as a blood vessel as it is supposed to be.
But there are plenty other authors who worked with chinese old texts and who do not have any troubles of calling meridien as the meridien and Qi a as the Qi and so on.
Secondly, how the theory of Yin-Yang fits in this new model of thinking.
Than, how we can explain the existence in chinese books the detailed explanation of Jing, well, source, cleft, accumulation pts if the meridiens do not exist.
I got a lot of another questions, but will stop here for now.
Could anyone practicing that style of acupuncture help me to understand better the core of that approach.
Thank you.