>The brain isnt even listed as one of TCM's 11 essential >organs. Even the organs that are listed, arent necessarily >referring to the actual organs.
(I'm not going to be able to explain this well but I'll try)
TCM was able to connect the function of the kidneys to the processing of water in the body. Kidney chi was associated with various external things (medicinal herbs etc). There are damp and wet conditions which are then treated with those things to strengthen the kidney chi. The kidneys get healthy, and the person gets healthy.
This isn't a one time let's try this out, but a practice established after decades of research and findings. Did it work all the time, probably not, but based on their findings it was effective.
>The idea that ancient medicine was onto ideas thay wouldnt be >elucidated until much later is perfectly acceptible to me. >Their attributions of phenomena in the absence of the ability >to test them, is not.
cool.
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