In my experience, Oriental medicine has a powerful effect on whole beings; matter, energy and all. The way we talk about this reveals some apparent limitations in our language. Asking if a medicine is energy medicine or physical medicine implies the underlying concept that mind/spirit and body are separate. Does it treat the energy, the body or both? Using that dichotomy, yes, acupuncture/Oriental medicine is energy medicine, and I believe that surgery and pharmaceuticals are as well in the sense that their use will have an effect on the whole being. Oriental medicine differs in that, even if there are no scientific tests to categorize a persons complaints, as occurs so often in "Western"/modern medicine, there is still a pattern to be identified in terms of qi movement and elemental aspects of them.
I have been deeply moved by acupuncture, released and unwound ancient ethereal conflicts that I didn't even know were there, and I've also experienced the throbbing and very physical pain of a migraine dissipate at the tip of a skillfully applied needle...
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