(Clearwisdom.net) Chinese medicine is indeed advanced and profound. When encountering the unexpected Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS), things that first come into western medicine doctors' minds are how to develop diagnostic tests, vaccinations, and drugs to kill the virus. The problem is that SARS has developed into several different forms and Western medicine treatments cannot match up to the development.

What about Chinese medicine? Chinese medicine says, "The evil cannot defeat the good." Diseases are considered evil things, thus, once a person is righteous, nothing can affect him or her. Then what is righteous in Chinese medicine's point of view? Chinese medicine emphasizes one's moral values. A living being that follows the basic moral standards of honesty, kindness, forgiveness and tolerance is deemed righteous. Scientists discovered that the thoughts human brains generate are in the form of brain waves; hence they have accepted that human thoughts are in fact a type of matter. Then isn't the righteousness that Chinese medicine addresses a type of microscopic matter also? This righteous microscopic matter lays the foundation for immunity against diseases.

These microscopic righteous elements that constitute everything from the smallest individual lives and the societies to the entire universe are the foundation for the health of all living beings.

It appears that this "righteousness" transcends politics, economics and culture. If a living being no longer upholds moral values, he is definitely rejecting what is just and in turn loses the basis of being healthy. If a being that upholds moral values is viewed as contravening the "law," then the society that established and enacts this "law" will definitely be controlled by the evil elements and thus will lose its foundation for healthy development.

So it seems that in order to be unaffected by diseases, we should differentiate between right and wrong, good and evil!

April 22, 2003