2006, Volume 8, Issue 4
Strategic Study of CAE >> 2006, Volume 8, Issue 4
The Origin of Traditional Chinese Medicine and Thinking on Chinese Medicine Development
Beijing Taiyihe Research Insititute of Chinese Medicine , Beijing 100076 , China
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Abstract
Although the TCM has developed a profound theory system and a fame of outstanding advantage in curative effect, it seems that the TCM is not quite adaptable to the development and requirement of the modem society.
A principle of “Adopting the advanced part of Western medicine to serve the TCM” should be adhered to for the traditional Chinese medicine. First, TCM should strive for a consensus of TCM theory which focuses on the guiding principles of “diagnosis and treatment based on an overall analysis of the illness and the patient's condition” and “the opposite principle of five internal organs”.Among these principles, “keeping relative balance of three internal systems” is a valuable guidance of the diagnosis and treatment theory. Secondly, macroscopic should be integrated with microscopic, totality with parts, phenomenology with materialism. A dialectical law should be applied to guide analysis. In treatment, adjustment and balance are basic principles. It is necessary not only prepare the medicine in advance according to the predicted disease of the year, but also adopt methods to restrict disease in advance. Basides, TCM dose type should be ameliorated in order to meet the needs of society.
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