Hippocrates the Father of Medicine once said,

“The natural healing force within each of us is the greatest force in getting well,”

“The body heals itself. The physician is only nature’s assistant”

Medicine has originally begun from normalizing natural healing force, as well as a harmony with nature before Descartes’ dualism of mind and matter has brought a paradigm shift to it. The contemporary medicine is fully occupied with ‘fixing’ human bodies by injecting chemicals, and removing infected organs as mechanics fix broken machines. It also has been developed in a way of removing pathogenic microorganisms with the study of pathogenic microorganisms has developed since they have been observable by microscopes. This has led us to only focus on the ‘mechanical system’ of human bodies while neglecting to help strengthening the immune system, which eventually has led us to only focus on developing vaccines to kill pathogens.

Standardizing the cause of disease, however, makes human bodies become a battlefield with pathogens being enemies.

The relationship between humanity and nature has changed with the development of science. Humans, as members of nature, have abandoned the way of harmoniously coexisting and destroyed the natural-led order after falling into arrogance.

The field medicine is obligated to cooperate conscientiously under the common goal, ‘the promotion of human health based on love for humanity’, simply because it deals with the lives of humans. The contemporary medicine, however, emphasizes that being objective and rational is unconditional. It has turned to bureaucracy with overwhelming power and has fallen into capitalism while completely excluding other ways to naturally cure diseases.

The East Asian Medicine(also known as TCM, or Korean Medicine) has proved its effectiveness in optimizing the immune system through ‘natural herbal medicine’. The natural-healing medical book, ‘Shang Han Lun’ has authentic data and proof that ‘natural herbal medicine’ is effective on optimizing our natural-born immune system.

I am more than willing to share these in order to help the field of medicine as well as the entire humanity. The ‘natural herbal medicine’ is currently not being treated as a ‘medicine’, and The East Asian medicine itself is being completely excluded by the bureaucracy of the contemporary medicine, which I believe is unfortunate for the humanity.

I would like to convey my sincere respect to the contemporary medicine that it has brought dramatic development in treating (external)injuries, acute diseases, and etc. At the same time, however, I do not believe it is the one and only way of medical treatment. The COVID-19 crisis has brought obstacles to the contemporary medicine that its way of only focusing on bacteriological method with eradicating bacteria and ‘mechanical’ way of thinking have reached its limits. However, there have been many cases in which the confirmed cases overcome the viruses only with their immune system. Thus, a paradigm shift from ‘fixing a disease’ to optimizing the immune system that can prevent and, at the same time, overcome the viruses by using natural products is urgent.

The COVID-19 is urging us to transform the current medical system.

Let us ‘treat’ diseases, and ‘heal’ our bodies.

Therefore, I am hereby proposing the followings:

1. A paradigm shift of medical system in a way to optimizing the immune system by using natural products(natural herbal medicine)

2. A collaborative medical treatments between the contemporary medicine and the East Asian medicine (Korean medicine)