On May 23, 2007, at 11:27 AM, Dave Paris wrote:
This does not surprise me in the least. I've been an advocate of
acupuncture since my first session 16 years ago. I've been to
Korean, Chinese, and American practitioners. (in NY, all must be
state licensed)
I have /NEVER/ had a good experience with a Western-trained
practitioner. At this point, I will only go to a multi-disciplined
Chinese practitioner - one with both formal medical training and
classic Eastern acupuncture training. My current (and will be for
as long as he's in practice) is a Board Certified Orthopedic
Surgeon (and former head of the Orthopedic Department when he was a
surgeon in China) and has exceptional talent with acupuncture. His
wife is also a formally trained herbologist - they make an
exceptional combination. The Korean practitioner I went to was
trained in China and was rather good, but not as good as the one I
have now.
The fact that there is a mistranslation is quite understandable.
Many of the Chinese medical texts are written in *classic* Chinese
(as would be written/spoken in Taiwan), and *not* the current
"simplified" Chinese that mainland China uses now. As a medical
practitioner, my acupuncturist was required to take a *two year*
course on learning classic Chinese so he could fully understand the
material. (ironically, we were just discussing this at my last
session)
Ehh? Simplified versus traditional is not that hard of a leap to
make. They're not different languages, just different character
sets. The words themselves are the same no matter which is used to
represent them. I'm not sure that this has anything to do with
mistranslations occurring. Granted, I only took a year of
traditional chinese here at the university, so I'm hardly an expert,
but if somebody mis-translated the text, it's more likely they just
plain didn't know the language all that well, and less that they were
unfamiliar with traditional/simplified characters.
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