Toward the Philosophy of CAM: Super-system and Epimedical Sciences

Let us now ask if it is possible to present the idea of CAM in other positive ways. Since more and more people are attracted to CAM, there must be a new point of view from which CAM can be defined affirmatively. Certainly, the people who are turning to CAM are not merely escaping from something: they must be hoping to enter a new horizon of medicine rather than accepting secondary non-orthodox remedies. What is then the central, positive idea of CAM on this new horizon? Let us first pose a simple question: what is the object of, or who is the subject of CAM? It is now well appreciated that Nature is structured hierarchically. For example, starting from ourselves, descending orders will be seen from the beginning level of the individual, to cells, molecules, genes, chemical substances, atoms and finally down to subatomic particles and fields. Above and surrounding us are higher society of human-beings and living creatures, the ecosystem, the planet Earth, galaxies and up to the Universe itself. Clearly, what CAM wishes to face is the human being, who is at the ‘individual’ level.