{"id":155,"date":"2013-10-24T10:35:54","date_gmt":"2013-10-24T15:35:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/agrilife.org\/jjgill\/?p=155"},"modified":"2013-10-24T10:35:54","modified_gmt":"2013-10-24T15:35:54","slug":"chairman-mao-invented-traditional-chinese-medicine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/agrilife.org\/jjgill\/chairman-mao-invented-traditional-chinese-medicine\/","title":{"rendered":"Chairman Mao Invented Traditional Chinese Medicine"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"text parbase section\">\n<p>In case you missed it, Oct. 7\u201313 was designated Naturopathic Medicine Week, according to a <a href=\"http:\/\/beta.congress.gov\/bill\/113th\/senate-resolution\/221\/text\" target=\"_blank\">Senate resolution<\/a> sponsored by Sen. Barbara Mikulski and passed by the Senate with unanimous consent. Among the reasons the Senate cited:<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"section authorbox\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"text parbase section\">\n<ul>\n<li>Naturopathic physicians can help address the shortage of primary care providers in the United States.<\/li>\n<li>The profession of naturopathic medicine is dedicated to providing health care to underserved populations.<\/li>\n<li>Naturopathic medicine provides consumers in the United States with more choice in health care.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"text parbase section\">\n<p>Mikulski and the rest of the Senate may be surprised to learn that they were repeating 60-year-old justifications of Chinese medicine put forward by Chairman Mao. Unlike Mikulski, however, Mao was under no illusion that Chinese medicine\u2014a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.no-naturopaths.org\/uploads\/1\/6\/3\/3\/16334850\/misleading_nd_v_md_education_chart.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">key component<\/a> of naturopathic education\u2014actually worked. In <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0679764437\/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=0679764437&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=slatmaga-20\" target=\"_blank\"><em>The Private Life of Chairman Mao<\/em><\/a>, Li Zhisui, one of Mao\u2019s personal physicians, recounts a conversation they had on the subject. Trained as an M.D. in Western medicine, Li admitted to being baffled by ancient Chinese medical books, especially their theories relating to the five elements. It turns out his employer also found them implausible.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Link: Slate.com | <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/articles\/health_and_science\/medical_examiner\/2013\/10\/traditional_chinese_medicine_origins_mao_invented_it_but_didn_t_believe.single.html\">Traditional Chinese medicine origins: Mao invented it but didn\u2019t believe in it.<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In case you missed it, Oct. 7\u201313 was designated Naturopathic Medicine Week, according to a Senate resolution sponsored by Sen. Barbara Mikulski and passed by the Senate with unanimous consent. Among the reasons the Senate cited: Naturopathic physicians can help address the shortage of primary care providers in the United States. The profession of naturopathic medicine is dedicated to providing health care to underserved populations. Naturopathic medicine provides consumers in the United States with more choice in health care. Mikulski and the rest of the Senate may be&#8230; <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/agrilife.org\/jjgill\/chairman-mao-invented-traditional-chinese-medicine\/\">Read More &rarr;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":830,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-155","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in-the-news"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Chairman Mao Invented Traditional Chinese Medicine - Gill Lab<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/agrilife.org\/jjgill\/chairman-mao-invented-traditional-chinese-medicine\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Chairman Mao Invented Traditional Chinese Medicine - Gill Lab\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"In case you missed it, Oct. 7\u201313 was designated Naturopathic Medicine Week, according to a Senate resolution sponsored by Sen. 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