Dear Han,
I don't remember when I forgot to answer your questions!
I don't think what you said is true.
Let me presume you prefer to say I didn't give you a direct answer.
Yes, some other Medboo friends also accused me for not giving them an answer, probably you could read the previous posts, and see that.
In fact, they blamed me even after they received my emails with the answers to their questions.
The point is what answer should I give, or wht's the optimal answer I should give?
I think that's a divergent understanding between Chinese and foreign people.
In China, especially when studying traditional Chinese medicine, teachers often won't give a direct answer to the students' questions, but just give them a hint and let them to find the answers by themselves.
You know, that's also why I said above in old time the study of traditional Chinese medicine was quite relying on memorizing as much as possible the ancient classics or literatures so to be inspired one day when the master gives a hint and you might have a good or close understanding.
In clinic, very often, a teacher would only say one word or two to the students, not enough time to give a detailed explanation, for in China, a good teacher (doctor) of traditional Chinese medicine would treat 40-plus patient within 4 hours.
Ok, I will try my best to give a direct answer to our foreign friends, for in any case, you are different from us in many aspects, culture, thinking mode, custome, ect.
As to your suggestion of giving examples of clinical practice, I think this is not a right forum to talk about that, here is the place to talk about the fundamentals of TCM, but don't worry, even in the next course, you'll have the chance, for the diagnosis is more related with the clinical practice. For sure we have some more practical courses in the later parts, course D and course G,
Fundamentals are fundamentals.
Ok, anyway, thank you for your post.
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