> which echoes the Chinese medicine’s idea of feedback cycle of Qi
Qi may have some vague similarity to the basic metabolic path, but it's rediculusluy far from being a useful medical principle. Sort of like calling humorism a precursor to the idea of homeostasis.
PS: Older forms of medicin like Homeopathy are based on a foundation of incorrect assumptions, they are often but not always more useful than doing nothing. However, the foundation of western medicine is do no harm. It replaced the assumption that we know what's going on with the pragmatic acceptance that the human body is to complex to actually understand in detail. At some point we may understand / simulate the human body well enough to change that but no philosophical approach has shown anywhere near the same bennifits simply because randomly choosing a theory when the search space is so large is a waste of time.
Qi may have some vague similarity to the basic metabolic path, but it's rediculusluy far from being a useful medical principle. Sort of like calling humorism a precursor to the idea of homeostasis.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humorism : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homeostasis
PS: Older forms of medicin like Homeopathy are based on a foundation of incorrect assumptions, they are often but not always more useful than doing nothing. However, the foundation of western medicine is do no harm. It replaced the assumption that we know what's going on with the pragmatic acceptance that the human body is to complex to actually understand in detail. At some point we may understand / simulate the human body well enough to change that but no philosophical approach has shown anywhere near the same bennifits simply because randomly choosing a theory when the search space is so large is a waste of time.