Are Chinese herbs more effective than our native ones?
All over the world there are very effective remedies that are found in found in nature. We in Europe also have a long tradition tradition and knowledge of medicinal herbs. However, we had the problem that that in the Middle Ages for several centuries such knowledge was systematically was systematically suppressed. There were political reasons for this. At that time there were people who were labelled as witches and sorcerers by certain circles witches and sorcerers and were burned at the stake along with their books. along with their books. This knowledge was systematically suppressed and destroyed. Fragments of that time have survived into the present day. time. But we have lost the connections that link all this knowledge knowledge have been lost. The background on which the knowledge knowledge was based on has been lost. This is how western knowledge about herbs herbs has been deprived of its foundation. Today we only give fragmentary anecdotal advice. This tea is good for this and that for or for something else. This herb for this illness, that for another. another. We don't know why this is the case. Our mother said so and so did our grandmother. Such explanations are of course poor. Even modern science has no more plausible explanations. explanations. Because there is this or that chemical substance in a plant it is good for this or that. Of course, these are ridiculous therapeutic approaches that nature can never can ever satisfy nature. After all, a plant contains not just one single chemical substance, but tens of thousands.
The Chinese were quite different. Here, first came the precise observation nature, then the epistemological background with the principle of yin and yang and the of yin and yang and the five-element doctrine. Every plant was embedded in this system every plant was embedded in this system and you have an absolutely watertight argumentation as to why one herb is good for this and the other for that and also why it works for one person and is not recommended for another not recommended for the other, even though at first glance both seem to have the same seem to have the same symptoms. Chinese medicine is always a medicine orientated towards the individual and not the collective.
If our herbs in the West were used in such an individualised and targeted manner individualised and targeted, it would be expected that much better results successes could be achieved than with our rudimentary knowledge. In fact, some people have realised this and have already set about and have already started to use western herbs in the Chinese sense. So they are now trying to embed all our local herbs in the Chinese Chinese way of thinking. Of course, this cannot work from day one. work from day one. It also took the Chinese centuries. However can be expected that progress will be made in this area within the next few progress will be made in this area over the next few years and we can look forward what will emerge. There are already several books on this subject and several hundred western herbs are presented in compendia of many pages. Some therapists are already using these new new findings and they are prescribing prescriptions with good success. prescriptions containing only western herbs or a mixture of western and Chinese herbs. mixed together. Incidentally, it has always been the case with the Chinese that they not only used their native plants, but also imported but also imported effective ones from other countries. In addition, each region China cultivates its own local herbs and these are very different in the south different from those in the north, as China has every climate, tropical as well as high mountain climates.
To summarise, it can be said once again that we have no lack of effective herbs, but a holistic system that explains their effect. explains their effect. Unfortunately, these once existing explanatory models have unfortunately been largely destroyed and what remains is an anecdotal medicine, devoid of any scientific epistemology.
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