At this moment Du Heng went on, "In the past, traditional Chinese medicine believed that distracting thoughts were produced in the Heart. Even today, there are still some TCM and people in our country who say this."
"But Old Master Wang had already put forward back then, 'Both ears connect to the brain, what is heard returns to the brain… both eyes are tied like threads, lengthened from the brain, what is seen returns to the brain… the nose connects to the brain, what is smelled, fragrant or foul, returns to the brain…'—this kind of view."
Dean Tian nodded lightly and said, "This view is very close to modern anatomy and physiology. It really is a quite remarkable correction."
She sighed with some emotion as she spoke, "With this theory, he dragged that somewhat mystical, ethereal traditional Chinese medicine back into the secular, down-to-earth realm."
