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Article: Can Asian traditional medicine integrate with North American-European medicine? DOC JIMMY SAYS.(Health)
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- Manila Bulletin
- Article date:
- September 14, 2003
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Byline: Dr. jaime T. Galvez Tan
I have avoided using the term western medicine to label the medicine introduced here by the Europeans and North Americans. The terms western medicine and eastern or oriental medicine for Asian medicine are the most archaic terminologies that we have retained in our day to day language. In our planet Earth which is round in shape, there is no east or west. There is only a north and south (as in the poles).
If we use the Philippines as a reference point, east of the Philippines is the United States, which we refer as the source of western medicine. And west of the Philippines is China which we refer as the source of ...