An Open Letter from Dr. Wu Tao-Wei
to all Western Doctors and Health Care Professionals:
To my esteemed colleagues,
You cannot deny that even the finest sports car requires many
things
that are similar
to the requirements of the human body.
Without oxygen,
neither car nor human can operate.
To restrict
the flow of air through
the carburetor kills the engine. And
yet, Western
People and Western
Doctors know more about proper
aspiration for their cars than they do
about the proper
breathing of their own lungs.
An automobile that has frayed, pinched or cracked electrical
wiring
can only sputter along with crackling radio and flickering
lights.
The nerves
within the body, likewise, can produce
atrophy and impairment
when they are frayed, pinched or broken.
And yet, it has only been
since 1991 that the
Western Physicians
were ordered by the courts to stop
interfering with the employment
of Chiropractic's for the relief of illness.
If you put a rubber
band
around your finger long enough, it will die and
become
gangrenous. Can you not agree that the same constricting effect
is possible internally? And yet,
Western Chiropractic cannot
compare
with Chinese techniques but they are better than nothing.
A car needs to have all of its parts in proper alignment. A
loose king pin
or a worn main bearing or door latch, gives much
trouble. And yet, the
American People think nothing of being
slouches, sitting and walking
unmindfully
without the slightest
concern for how their posture misaligns
both their joints as
well as their internal organs.
An automobile that is filled with bad or stale gasoline or
that which has
adulterations like water in it, will certainly
not run but with the most
severe vibrations, chugs and coughs.
And yet, the American and European People demand
better quality
gas for
their cars than they demand better quality food
for
their
stomachs.
Primarily, Americans subsist on garbage. American food is
in shiny tins
and flashy packages, to be sure, but it is still
garbage. Such food can
only cause
many forms of mental and
physical illness. And yet, what
hospital in America is
without its soft drink and candy machine or the
assorted pieces
of junk food on
the hospital menu?
There is no use going on with these metaphors. Your symptomatic
approach
to healing
is both ridiculous and useless. What are you
going to do about
these situations?
To continue as you have
been trained in the West to do
is a great crime. It is time
to
explore the time-proven and ancient knowledge
that China has to
offer the world.
Your own health will benefit and the
health of your patients will improve.
For the sake of humanity, you must learn what China has known
for
the past 5,000 years ... CHI, the life force.
Sincerely,
Dr. Wu Tao-Wei,