Growing Chinese Medicinal Herbs to Prevent and Treat Chronic Illness

IF 0.9 4区经济学 Q3 ECONOMICS

American Journal of Economics and Sociology Pub Date : 2022-10-27 DOI:10.1111/ajes.12482

Jean Giblette

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Abstract

Chronic illnesses, such as cancer, heart disease, and diabetes, are on the rise throughout the world due to modern diets and other factors. Western medicine has been ineffective in preventing or treating them. Thus, members of the public have sought alternatives. In the past 50 years, two social movements in the United States have shared an understanding of health in relation to the natural world. Chinese herbal medicine and practitioners of ecological agriculture agree that the nutritional requirements of complex living organisms are interconnected. Empirical findings in these applied sciences are supported by recent discoveries. However, economic constraints inhibit development. Each field is described separately, with notes from the author’s direct experience.

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种植中草药预防和治疗慢性疾病

由于现代饮食和其他因素，癌症、心脏病和糖尿病等慢性疾病在世界范围内呈上升趋势。西医在预防或治疗这些疾病方面一直无效。因此，公众开始寻求替代方案。在过去的50年里，美国的两个社会运动对健康与自然世界的关系有着共同的理解。中草药和生态农业从业者一致认为，复杂生物体的营养需求是相互关联的。这些应用科学的实证发现得到了最近发现的支持。然而，经济制约制约了发展。每个领域都是单独描述的，并附有作者的直接经验。

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American Journal of Economics and Sociology Multiple-

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1.90

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12.50%

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期刊介绍： The American Journal of Economics and Sociology (AJES) was founded in 1941, with support from the Robert Schalkenbach Foundation, to encourage the development of transdisciplinary solutions to social problems. In the introduction to the first issue, John Dewey observed that “the hostile state of the world and the intellectual division that has been built up in so-called ‘social science,’ are … reflections and expressions of the same fundamental causes.” Dewey commended this journal for its intention to promote “synthesis in the social field.” Dewey wrote those words almost six decades after the social science associations split off from the American Historical Association in pursuit of value-free knowledge derived from specialized disciplines. Since he wrote them, academic or disciplinary specialization has become even more pronounced. Multi-disciplinary work is superficially extolled in major universities, but practices and incentives still favor highly specialized work. The result is that academia has become a bastion of analytic excellence, breaking phenomena into components for intensive investigation, but it contributes little synthetic or holistic understanding that can aid society in finding solutions to contemporary problems. Analytic work remains important, but in response to the current lop-sided emphasis on specialization, the board of AJES has decided to return to its roots by emphasizing a more integrated and practical approach to knowledge.