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Since the goal for most medicines is good health, it is a good idea to have a definition for "health" to better understand our ultimate goal.
According to Western biomedicine, health is the absence of discomforts. All discomforts are identified as disease states (even if they are normal parts of life -- more on this below). If a discomfort is not present, you are healthy. Health is therefore disease-centered according to this medicine. But Western medicine goes another step further. The potential for future discomforts is also considered a disease state. Genetic markers for disease are to be considered just as good as actually having the disease. According to this model, it is only a matter of time for that disease to present itself. People with genetic markers are therefore placed on medications and scheduled for regular doctor visits as if they were already diseased.
Eastern medicine takes a different stance on health. Health is balance. Balance is a state where "energy" is aligned in a perfect state. So long as balance is maintained, the body does not exhibit any characteristics of disease. However, once balance falls into imbalance, symptoms present themselves. This perspective is balance-centric. It does not matter if you have genetic markers for disease, as a balanced person never brings those genetic features into actuality.
Fu Xi Wen adheres to the Eastern definition of health. In addition to being a balanced state, health is also a state of vitality, an inner sense of well-being. Health is not just being free of disease and it is not just being perfectly balanced, it is also feeling vital and whole.
One more thing needs to be said about the Western approach. Essentially, the Western model of health is extremely limiting when it comes to how it views what people are and how they should feel in their bodies and in their hearts. Pharmaceutical drugs are created by corporate interests that have financial agendas that have nothing to do with health and disease. As a result, Western medicine has been co-opted to call every possible discomfort felt by the human body and heart a disease state worthy of medication. This is easy to do when people are taken out of the context of their experience, for instance, their greater socio-economic system, and are instead viewed simply as a set of symptoms. Emotions such as fear, anger, grief, and acting out are demonized while "happiness" -- the goal of every commercial ever displayed on tv -- is epitomized as the normal state of human being. This serves corporations as they place themselves as the purveyors of happiness. However, happiness is a fleeting emotion that cannot be controlled. So, making happiness a central goal simply feeds into the "corporatizing" of health and disease -- creating an endless wheel of fleeting happiness followed by the next pharmaceutical tool to restore it once it passes.
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