Presented at the 7th Annual Forum on New Science, Denver, Colorado

Completing A Paradigm Shift by Integrating Eastern and Western Medicine by Yee-Wing Tong, M.D.

Abstract
Western medicine, based on a chemical-mechanistic model, treats physical symptoms, but not the functional causes of a disease. This method seldom produces a cure of a chronic disorder, and results in costly life long therapy with drugs and/or surgery along with their attendant harm.

Eastern medicine, based on an energy concept, focuses on the functional causes of a disorder. These functional causes has been proven to be energy disturbances of the body by the Chinese, who have been curing various ailments for over 2,000 years by balancing such disturbances. The shortcoming of Chinese medicine is that its therapeutic modalities are too weak to be effective for severe maladies.

An integrative approach utilizing the strengths of both system, called Neuro-BioEnergetics, has been proven effective against a wide spectrum of chronic physical and mental ailments. This finding has been presented in a recent medical conference. This article focuses on the distinction between physical symptoms and functional causes of a disease, and delineate the reasons why a paradigm shift in medicine is inevitable to conform to advances of other disciplines of science. Detailed case history illustrations will be provided in the lecture as well as in another article.

Introduction
The validation of the equivalence of energy and matter by Einstein has changed the Newtonian view of a mechanical world to the Einsteinian concept of a universe consisting of all energies, a holism with infinite numbers of connected, ever-changing components, of which the human is but one example. This paradigm shift has occurred in all major disciplines of science with the exception of orthodox medicine, which continues to view the human as a purely chemical-mechanistic entity.

Voluminous scientific data from the past few decades indicate the existence of a subtle energy structure within the living human, which provides the intelligence to govern the behavior and well being of the organism. These data have been ignored by the allopathic medical community because of the lack of a therapeutic modality which can produce consistent clinical results affirming the energy concept.

Western Approach
Viewing the human merely as a chemical-mechanistic entity, western medicine only observes abnormalities of the physical body, or symptoms, and has little understanding of the mental aspect, or the governing or functional role of the human. Emotional effects on the body have been increasingly recognized by modern scientist. Future publication by the author will illustrate the intimate tie of the body to the mind, the derangement of which is frequently the cause for most chronic disorders.

Chasing symptoms with drugs and/or surgery in a chronic disorder will not produce a cure of the disease. Instead, life long therapy is required, resulting in an astronomical cost and much harm from the inherent adverse effects of these modern therapies. Further, both the costly and harmful effect of this method are magnified by a subspecialization manner of practice, which fragments the body into parts to be treated by different specialists.

Eastern Approach
Perceiving that everything in the universe is composed of dual complementary opposing energies called yin and yang, the Chinese regard the human as a union of a pure energy entity, the mind, and a materialistic system, the body. They further discovered that the magnetic interplay of the yin and yang energies shapes all events, and have been curing various maladies for more than 2,000 by using modalities such as acupuncture and natural herbs to balance the energy disturbances of the body.

The shortcoming of Chinese medicine is that its therapeutic modalities are not effective compared to western modalities to alleviate severe symptoms associated with modern maladies. Therefore, the Chinese theory has not been universally accepted. However, the fact that billions of people throughout Chinese history have been cured of various chronic ailments considered incurable in the West, as recorded in volumes of Chinese medical literatures cannot be ignored. The Chinese concept of the mind/body relationship is depicted in the figure below:

Integrative Eastern and Western Approach
To prove the Chinese energy concept, synergizing the strengths of the two systems is necessary. An integrative method utilizing the best of both systems has been innovated by the author, which has been proven effective against a variety of physical and mental ailments that are unresponsive to treatments of either system alone. Because both the symptoms as well as the cause of a disease are rectified with this approach, a cure of the problem is effected, thus eliminating the need of prolonged therapies.

The finding was recently presented in a synopsis entitled Chronic Disorders Are Curable With Neuro-BioEnergetics Treatment at a conference sponsored by the Maricopa Medical Center. A scientific paper, validating the energy concept with a prospective study of 1,000 patients afflicted by a wide spectrum of chronic ailments, was submitted to New England Journal of Medicine, Journal of American Medical Association, and Lancet, all of which denied the paper without subjecting it to review by experts in the field of energy medicine.

In a rebuttal to the editors of these journals, scientific, social, and economic factors were cited to support a more careful consideration of the paper. Most critical of these factors is the fallacy of the aforementioned symptomatic treatment approach where the root cause of the disease is left untreated. Such manner of repair of problem is unacceptable in any professional. The medical professional has not been challenged because there is a lack of a better therapeutic option, and a lack of understanding of the facts by the scientific community.

Conclusion
The ultimate scientific proof of a theory is positive clinical results. The validation of the energy concept of life has been provided by reproducible clinical results using the NBE method. The 1,000 patients involved in the above prospective study are only some of the many thousands of patients, who were not responsive to conventional and/or other forms of therapies, but were able to obtain significant relief with the NBE treatment.

Most importantly, the fundamental medical ethics is TO DO NO HARM! The harm and exorbitant cost of conventional therapy for chronic ailments, magnified by the reductionistic approach, have led to the surge of degenerative diseases and the astronomical health care costs. In view of these factors and the current health care crisis, keeping the truth hidden is not only unethical, but also impossible in this information age. Therefore, a paradigm shift in medicine conforming to the more accurate energy concept of science is inevitable.