Chinese Medicine in Contemporary China Quotes

“The body in Chinese medicine, then, is not an aggregate of discrete morphological substances linked to each other anatomically by means of mechanical structures and physiologically by way of interactive functional systems. Rather, it is a complex unit of functions and a site of regular transformations. While these transformations have discernible patterns, the body itself is always becoming.”
― Volker Scheid, Chinese Medicine in Contemporary China: Plurality and Synthesis