Classical Chinese medicine worth

YeFang Nanjing university of Chinese medicine ZhouZhongYing famous doctors studio

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        Classical Chinese medicine for human health, to prevent and cure diseases what it's worth? One is experience, is a method. Based on the modern scientific on biological molecular network information characteristics of the research results and the doctor of traditional Chinese medicine cognitive disease experience and method, can form a new theoretical framework of traditional Chinese medicine, and based on this, integrating the two kinds of medicine of the existing experience or achievements, can form beyond existing Chinese medicine theory is the new paradigm of medicine.

        Some scholars put forward, but the Chinese medicine theory is their own inner inherent and advanced nature is the doctor of traditional Chinese medicine science and the most powerful growing point, any lost inner growing point of the science is absolutely impossible to continue to develop - no matter how abundance to the soil.

        So, classical Chinese medicine for human health, to prevent and cure diseases what it's worth? We believe that only two aspects, one is the experience, is a method.

        One of the value: abundant experience of preventing and treating diseases

        The formation of experience: clinical practice

        People often say: "traditional Chinese medicine is a kind of experience medicine". The doctor of traditional Chinese medicine on preventing experience such as chun xia keep Yang, qiu dong nourishes Yin, cure experience such as winter disease in summer and for the disease under takes, and foster the Yin and Yang, harmony, more when such as many traditional Chinese herbal medicines and herbal treatment has a disease one card efficacy of experience, such as gypsum defervescence, sweet wormwood therapy malaria, ephedra decoction "in the treatment of chill cold, cassia twig soup harmonic camp guard, etc. From "shen nong's materia medica" families to modern clinical experience, thousands of species of traditional Chinese medicine and hundreds of thousands of a formula, mostly in clinical practice based on experience gives all kinds of efficacy, of course, also a lot of drug efficacy are actually from "speculation", through the like attracts like., take analogy like, or analogy or deduction is commonly used for a drug efficacy method.

        These experiences, from all previous dynasties the ancient physicians in the struggle against disease continuously accumulation, and constantly enrich and rich process, huangdi nature is set at the time of the medical experience dacheng, ZhangZhongJing more clearly put forward by the "steal the square" and into the typhoid fever miscellaneous disease theory ", later constantly necessary from their clinical practice has accumulated more experience, folk folk prescription of traditional Chinese medicine prescription is also rich experience in the treasure house of an important source, then become today's experience as the foundation of TCM theory system.

        Experience of packing: Chinese medicine theory

        In the development of traditional Chinese medicine, the experience is people USES Yin and Yang, five elements, etc traditional Oriental philosophy culture structure, even if the six evils, Tibetan like etc concept or theory undoubtedly is also based on clinical experience basis and endowed with new connotation, becoming the doctor of traditional Chinese medicine theory skeleton. Such as the main and collateral channels, drug efficacy, originally only clinical practice accumulation of personalized experience, once be endowed with Yin and Yang, and foster the five elements, its meaning is no longer is a medicine a hole in a method for.

        Such as pinellia tuber compatibility selfheal treatment of insomnia, was also given the connotation of Yin and Yang to reduce growth. The medical BiZhi "yue:" cover pinellia tuber to Yin and hygiene, selfheal have to Yang and Yin and Yang is long, with the best ", it is to point to self-heal "harvested in April, may is", "may pinellia tuber life". Pinellia tuber, selfheal compatibility is complied with the ups and downs of Yin and Yang between heaven and earth nature, also implies the human camp guard shield done rhythm, so treat insomnia will achieve the ideal effect.

        Someone image to the evolution of Chinese medicine theory form described a "container" : "the traditional constantly to fill people in different items - no inner link and logical relation of parts, and never to selection objects. For the same experience fact, there are many different or even opposite theoretical hypothesis: the new proposed hypothesis is not overthrow and exclusive original hypothesis, the relationship between the said is parallel." This is a fact!

        Huangdi constructed the theoretical framework of traditional Chinese medicine, the han dynasty ZhangZhongJing is just used one of the "a". In traditional Chinese medicine ZhangZhongJing the contributions of the great is no doubt, later generations to study Chinese medicine is must grasp its essence, but after all the relative to the contribution of traditional Chinese medicine (TCM theory and clinical practice experience, still only "rare" just. For if healers to stop in the typhoid fever miscellaneous disease theory ", in fact has "the frog at the disadvantages, the later tang and song of medicine, gold dollar four, the Ming and qing dynasties buxiang pie, warm disease school houses the generation famous doctors, the generation had a full, development and perfect, but the theory and experience between" conflict "can be found everywhere, in the late qing dynasty of typhoid fever and warm disease school rivalry appears naturally, each can be in in huangdi neijing find theoretical basis. Everyone (including the folk prescription of traditional Chinese medicine, folk prescription) for Chinese medicine in the "container" continuous enrichment, it is a very interesting phenomenon. And western medicine more is constantly with the development of science with new knowledge, new theory out of old knowledge, the old theory.

        The defects of experience: individuation

        Experience itself contains personalized features, but the personalized experience too often makes it difficult to learn and scholars after repeated application. Undoubtedly, Chinese materia medica or recipe books or famous doctors monographs or many of them totally, the content is YiJiZhiJian, there are naturally a lot of content is not repeated verification, or is wrong, or obvious is dross. So, usually the so-called traditional Chinese medicine still is scattered pearls for existence form.

        Drug efficacy is concerned, many ancient materia medica effect each other between many of the "fight", even if blindly drug four food.integrity often debate, but not to probe - even now has been updated with seven version of the institutions of higher learning textbooks and even "the Chinese pharmacopoeia", many drug efficacy in fact are also was totally just, later generations need in clinical practice to verify, obtain experience or feeling, of course, its conclusion although is not necessarily a science, but often can find the theoretical basis for the assignment or in the theoretical connotation. People often for example so-and-so accidental get a "recipe" from now on can worry about food and clothing, also is the truth.

        For another example, the modern people like to offer a new perspective, new hypothesis, almost any view can from an immense number of books of classical TCM medical centralized find basis - this is now the doctor of traditional Chinese medicine thesis writing of main manifestation, an argument as long as predecessors have expression -- - and even distortion, this thesis also often become "speak on good grounds"! This and modern scientific academic characteristic also obviously different.

        Experience characteristics: tolerance

        The doctor of traditional Chinese medicine is one of the characteristics of strong inclusiveness. Inclusiveness makes all kinds of traditional Chinese medicine school coexist, accused each other of the spectacular phenomenon. "Container" type of inclusiveness originally is characteristic of traditional Chinese medicine, but also its defects, and an attack others "soft rib". For hundreds of years, many claim to "cancel the doctor of traditional Chinese medicine" heave example, strictly speaking is often not "real Chinese medicine". The public are used to thinking of the folk indigenous folk prescription or even wish by also belonging to the doctor of traditional Chinese medicine to come up, like white, black cats are cats, not only can catch mouse is cat, becomes the people to attack object is those who do not catch mice cat just.

        Then, what is the doctor of traditional Chinese medicine? Still no one came to define! Nearly years of traditional Chinese medicine seems to become a complete system, is reason in a French medicine teaching material with a, but the problem but it's a long story, up to now the many schools of thought contend.

        The average person is difficult to understand the difficult to learn traditional Chinese medicine. To this day, any a doctor of traditional Chinese medicine learner, must be to read neijing learning the compendium of materia medica "and so on the basis of classical again in the clinical slowly groping, will likely become, learning Chinese medicine can become age tend to to 50 years of age or older, become the probability of famous far less than the other subjects.

        The second value: cognitive phenomenon of life method

        Classical Chinese medicine to provide us with a lot of cognitive life, to prevent and cure diseases of very good methodology. This perspective with western medicine under the completely different life phenomenon.

        Classical Chinese medicine to provide us with the life phenomena and rules and the essence of the cognitive method, such as correspondence between man and universe, the overall view, dynamic view, company within the chuai, managing the external to internal and take analogy like, like attracts like. Etc. These methods are considered to be macroscopic, whole, dynamically cognitive life phenomenon, and black box theory, system theory, complexity science have similarities, its special advantage has been more and more be western medicine in the study appeared in the process of confused confirmation. In recent years the domestic scholars will the doctor of traditional Chinese medicine of these cognitive thinking method called "TCM original thinking".

        Original thinking on other subjects also has higher guidance value. The ancient times have resorts to arms if use drug, drug like resorts to arms say, clinical many "western" doctor can usually soon beyond the original level, its reason is that traditional Chinese medicine original thinking method once was applied to guidance western medicine, but also can improve the will of the western medicine clinical and theory ability. According to traditional Chinese medicine such as assistant and guide compatibility thought, effectively guide the compound artemisinin, arsenic trioxide and natural indigo composed of compound components compatibility research, but it to the traditional Chinese medicine for many original thinking but is "the tip of the iceberg" just.

        The future of classical Chinese medicine

        The doctor of traditional Chinese medicine is the real world?

        There are often many people the doctor of traditional Chinese medicine person say: the doctor of traditional Chinese medicine theory is perfect, system, mature, does it mean the traditional Chinese medicine need not development? In fact, in the history of the human race will not need to continue the development of science.

        Modern TCM everyone in classical Chinese medicine theory to explore in many different ways, for example, put forward the overall view, syndrome differentiation and treatment is the characteristics and advantages of traditional Chinese medicine, to the Chinese medicine theory system of general carding, forming the present Chinese medicine discipline frame, but there are also more and more scholars question. In the process of modernization of Chinese medicine scientific research, academic, teaching, clinical character, previously experienced many crooked road, already someone still "stubborn", adhere to the previous research ideas, also some people began to reflect on, this paper discusses the real world with traditional Chinese medicine scientific research ideas and methods.

        Today, the human society has entered the era of high concept, in the face of complex diseases, genomics, metabolomics, protein, etc. Various kinds of group study, network pharmacology and transformation of the medical model rise, biology, computer, statistics, mathematics and multidisciplinary cross, osmosis, make the doctor of traditional Chinese medicine modernization into the new development opportunity. In the future, we have to do is how to system, in-depth excavation of the traditional Chinese medicine and application experience, theory and ways of thought, the more effectively for the human health service. The first work be is to make clear the classical Chinese medicine concern life phenomena cognitive method, thinking mode and the basic rule is what? In traditional Chinese medicine really belong to scientific things have?

        We think, first of all is the life of the change law of time and space law, disease changes in the law, Chinese medicine function and use rules, these rules hidden in ancient and modern traditional Chinese medicine, theory of experience. With "hide like" theory, for example, in fact hiding like and physical organs without any relationship, but is the ancients to human life phenomenon function classification, life time, space, sequence, the phenomenon of function relationship blanket, "huangdi neijing" ever-green five Tibetan Yin and Yang said. "there is reason to be classical the theory of traditional Chinese medicine and the core, this is the core part of the traditional Chinese medicine in the real world.

        Classical Chinese medicine will go from here?

        Between Chinese and western medicine two medical system have been realized their advantages and disadvantages, and constantly adjust, integration, architecture, and based on this, is expected to form a new medical model. For complex diseases, people have realized it is difficult to from a certain cell factor and its signal transduction pathway a single approach to find biological pathogenesis and treatment of the key, and needs from different levels, different Angle to integration, attain thus to the biological generating mechanism overall, coordinate understanding and cognition. And molecular biology experiment and recent development of high throughput technology has accumulated the massive control material, to analyze the characteristics of the network control, find out the network control key targets, expounds its control network mechanism and system pathogenesis, has the vital significance.

        For example, western medicine to tumorigenesis mechanism has from single gene into the genome of the molecular network Angle of research, have come to realize the tumor produce not only is a cancer gene mutation but the whole tumor cell inside and outside environment, such as complicated problem, western medicine pay more and more attention to the tumor and many other complexity disease diagnosis and treatment of advocating stage, stage, individualization of comprehensive treatment plan.

        Therefore, we propose: based on modern science on biological molecular network information characteristics of the research results and the doctor of traditional Chinese medicine cognitive disease experience and method, can form a new theoretical framework of traditional Chinese medicine, and based on this, integrating the two kinds of medicine of the existing experience or achievements, can form beyond existing Chinese medicine theory is the new paradigm of medicine.