Da homeopatia à medicina chinesa: a trajetória dos pontos de Weihe

Abstract

This master s degree dissertation is a study of social-historical nature that builds the trajectory of the Weihe Points system, a minority medicine system, whose origin is found in Homeopathy, however, its development leads this system towards Acupuncture. Such study has the purpose of inserting its objects of analysis in the discussion of the questions regarding the conceptual development of Homeopathy. As a complex medical system, the homeopathic medical rationality has six dimensions, i.e., morphology (or anatomy), vital dynamic (or physiology), doctrine, diagnosis, therapeutics and cosmology. From these, the morphologic dimension and the physical exam are shared with biomedicine, whereas the remaining ones are based on the vitalist paradigm, even though not all of them have been conceptually developed, remaining only implicit. This situation gave Homeopathy the denomination of hybrid medical rationality. The present study starts with the premise that Homeopathy is a medical system that is still being built and that should be directed towards the conceptual development of its dimensions, having its vitalist nature as guidance element. Nevertheless, it is expected that a possibility of rethinking homeopathic morphology should be created insofar recovering the history of the Weihe Points, in such a way that it might express the movement of the vital force in sickness and in health. It is also expected that in revealing a possible collaboration with Chinese Medicine medical rationality that shares with Homeopathy the vitalist paradigm -, it might open a window to rethinking the conceptual base of homeopathic vital dynamic. Searching for a systematization of the vital dynamic simultaneously compatible with the vitalistic paradigm and capable of aggregating the central elements of the homeopathic thought is a fundamental step in the development of such rationality, for it allows us to start from the same conceptual scheme and, therefore, from the same pragmatic base towards the creation of other diagnosis systems, which concur with the medicamentous diagnosis and confirm it. As primary and secondary sources to the construction of the trajectory of the Weihe Points, articles and books by Weihe and his disciples, freely translated from its original language, German, to portuguese, were used. The conceptual substrata employed here were George Canguilhem s reflections concerning the history which diverge from the obstacles that obstruct its linearity, compromising the comprehension of the scientific discoveries as determined by its forthcoming conditions, transfiguring them in the pure forthcoming of what they should be.