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Professor Manfred Porkert's works have been known and respected in a minor segment of TCM (Traditional Chinese Medicine) practitioners and experts community in the Western World for years now. The German Professor, from Munich, has even been recognized and accepted as a TCM expert and authority by the Chinese. Professor Porkert went through the pains of studying Chinese, which, no doubt helped him to comprehend the millennia old theories that TCM has been founded on.
Regretfully, the TCM spread throughout the Western world in one kind of a haste, immediately after the political climate was right (basically after a group of doctors from former Yugoslavia had been invited by the Chinese to study Chinese Acupuncture, and especially after President Nixon's visit to China). TCM came to us through our back doors (with individuals, MDs and others, who understood the value of this medical art), when it should have entered through our front doors (i.e. via academic exchange, sponsored by our Universities), welcomed by our medical experts and authorities and with our finest red carpets rolled out.
Consider that TCM originates from a culture that differs from the Western in so many aspects - other philosophy, different way of thinking and a completely different language. Being complex as it is, TCM is not that easy to study. And not easy to translate, either.
Now imagine that the familiar notion 'Yin-Yang' is to be explained to a westerner who does not speak Chinese. That is a tough task, especially if the interpreter's English is not of very high standard. We don't have words for Yin-Yang in the West; we are forced to use the Chinese term. There will most certainly be misunderstanding on the way in such case. Lots of it. The same goes for The Five Phases (much more known as 'The Five Elements'). This has nothing to do with any elements or matter; this is merely a law describing phases in a dynamic process. The Chinese name (Wu Xing) contains no word that would indicate a relationship or connection to things, or anything material. Whoever chose the name 'Five Elements' can't have been Chinese speaking. That person merely used a poor translation, thus approximating and distorting the meaning of Wu Xing. One more example and I am done. Bear with me. Regarding 'Meridians'. The Westerners 'knew' that there are no such things as Channels and Collaterals (in Chinese: Jing Luo). 'Those were just some imaginary lines running along human bodies, so they were named 'Meridians', as those running over the globe. How misleading. The same goes for 'Acupuncture point', or rather Foramen (which is latin), 'Organs', Chinese Zang Fu, or Orbits, etc., etc.
Did you get my point? Medicine, being an exact science, at least theoretically, and an art, has a very clearly defined terminology. It is a bad idea to approximate or distort the meaning of medical terms when translating the theories from one language to another, be it TCM, Ayur Veda, Traditional Tibetan Medicine, or whatever. We lose lots of information in the process, and we cannot afford to do so.
Professor Porkert has put down enormous efforts to shed light on TCM, which was considered to be a mysterious phenomenon from China, and make this medical art available to us. In order to avoid misconceptions, distortion and errors, Professor Porkert uses either Latin terms or German/English terms that correspond well to the original Chinese meaning. In other words, Professor Porkert has contributed immensely in making TCM available to all the Westerners who wish to study the original TCM theories.
There is a catch, though. Those who have studied TCM theories from books normally available in the book stores, may have gotten books where it says ?Five Elements?, ?Zang organs?, ?Fu organs?, ?Meridians?, and so forth. After studying such literature, feeling satisfied with the knowledge one has obtained, it is normally considered to be truly hard to digest the information from a book written by an author as Professor Porkert. There are myriads of never before heard of words and expressions. It will cost the reader months to grasp all the new terms and get familiar with such accurate translation, but after that ? one sees the bright light in the tunnel. Looking back, one can only feel great humbleness and gratitude, and admit that it was truly worthwhile to study the subject properly.
The Essentials of Chinese Diagnostics is a great book. Those who are unfamiliar with the ?more complicated? version of TCM theories, go through the pain of reading it, and you shall be awarded.
