Aaron Hartman, MDFunctional Medicine Specialist | Clinical Researcher

Maegan Hodge | Unveiling 2000 Years of Chinese Medicine

9 Nov 2024 · 1 min

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Maegan Hodge argues that Chinese medicine has at least 2,000 years of written records and likely extends further based on archaeological artifacts; she emphasizes the large volume of observational data and cautions against dismissing it due to language and cultural differences. The excerpt frames Chinese medicine as a long-standing, empirically rich system deserving respect despite interpretive challenges.

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There is 2000 years of written record of Chinese medicine, and there's a huge number of books and a massive amount of text that amounts to 2000 years of recorded observational data. And we believe that the system of medicine goes back at least another 2,000 years. Perhaps further, they found some artifacts that maybe dated back to about 6,000, 4,000, 6,000 BCA might be messing that up, but a really long time. So thousands of years of observational data is a massive amount of observation, observational data. And yes, it's in a different language, and yes, it's in cultural concepts that Western people aren't going to inherently understand very easily. But I think now that I'm older, I can say that it's foolish to dismiss that amount of observational data.