"Three big debate" reveal nature of traditional Chinese medicine

Gao YongLi Shandong university of traditional Chinese medicine

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        For a long time, traditional Chinese medicine and social circle, successively in three big problem on squabbling, thus formed a lasting "three big debate", namely the battle over the scientific debate, combine traditional Chinese and western medicine of traditional Chinese medicine and Chinese medicine modernization. Ebb and flow, knew he was not consistent. However, its effect on TCM is huge, it keeps the doctor of traditional Chinese medicine thinking themselves, understand themselves, set the essence of Chinese medicine in debate and think more clear.

        The doctor of traditional Chinese medicine scientific nature

        Doctor of traditional Chinese medicine scientific nature, experience of time for a long time, participants widely, is a rare phenomenon in Chinese history. So, because it's about the traditional Chinese medicine of life and death, is more about survival of the Chinese traditional culture. In two thousand to a great contribution to the thriving of the Chinese nation's traditional Chinese medicine, ceased after introduced western science? I would destroy the? This is hard to accept, is intolerable. New culture movement period, is the social educational world celebrities don't think the doctor of traditional Chinese medicine science, into the modern society, want to quit the stage of history of traditional Chinese medicine or the social educational world celebrities. And all of them grasp scientific problems. Used to think "long live so long as has the curative effect of traditional Chinese medicine is", opposed voice not because Chinese medicine of doctor of traditional Chinese medicine has curative effect and stop. Seems to have only curative effect far cannot answer questions on science or not.

        What is science? "Reflects the natural and social science is a branch of law knowledge system, thinking." What is traditional Chinese medicine? Traditional Chinese medicine is about human physiological pathology, health care, to prevent and cure diseases a branch of law knowledge. Why also said that Chinese medicine is not a science? The crux of the problem is that, as a science of traditional Chinese medicine, in the feature requirements do not accord with western science strictly. This is the "overlord terms" under the scientism.

        Science is exploring the objective law of natural mystery, found that, regardless of any branch of knowledge system, regardless of their theoretical guidance, thinking mode, the research route, using difference method, the purpose is the same. Can mount Everest is a winner, is a hero, no matter you walk is the route of the south slope and north slope of route, it doesn't matter if you use more of climbing tool is east or west. Also, both Chinese and western medicine is to explore human health and disease prevention and control laws, are in the direction of open the mystery of human life, regardless of your field of vision is macroscopic or microcosmic, the method used is the level of reductionism and system theory, the research is entity or phenomenon, is the category of scientific research.

        Science and freedom, is a basic proposition of scientific spirit. If constraints, constraints, and even hinder the scientific exploration, it is a departure from the spirit of science. The curative effect of traditional Chinese medicine is objective existence, theoretical guidance is objective existence, if because its way of thinking and methods and the modern science, and no different it is scientific, it is also a departure from the spirit of science. In the affirmation of doctor of traditional Chinese medicine scientific nature and their own advantages, of course, at the same time, we can see its existence insufficiency, how to make theoretical explanation with modern characteristics, make a theoretical concept more clear and strictly, the curative effect of traditional Chinese medicine is more repeatability, this is the traditional Chinese medicine in deep thinking self-consciously. However, these problems can only explain TCM theory in scientific level and there is a gap, stringency of theory also needs to improve, can't be questioned and denied Chinese medicine science reason and basis.

        Scientific debate, let people for what is a science of traditional Chinese medicine have a more profound understanding, more comprehensive thinking of TCM itself, it not only failed to weaken the Chinese people's confidence, but more determined the understanding of Chinese medicine scientific nature.

        Combine traditional Chinese and western medicine

        Combine traditional Chinese and western medicine the focus of the dispute, is whether two theories will be commensuration. "Commensuration" was a mathematical concept, academic circles implied meaning, expression of properties or the essential relationship between the same two things, or things, interoperability between the culture and in common, and said, "both can commensuration". Due to cultural differences, Chinese and western medicine in the way of thinking and theoretical expression also is put in bigger difference. On this basis, some scholars put forward incommensurability of Chinese and western medicine point of view. Instead, as the research object is the same, physiological pathology exists cross viscera theory of TCM and western medicine, TCM syndrome and western medicine disease there is overlap, especially modern clinical many convincing results, combine traditional Chinese and western medicine research, some scholars put forward not only in clinical method can combine traditional Chinese and western medicine, with the development of science and the deepening of the research, theory of commensuration is also possible. While the debate continues to already a long time, but still not to jump to conclusions. Medicine is the application of knowledge, is the need to explore in practice, the development of the Chinese and western medicine can incommensurability, is not only a theoretical argument can answer, it is important to test by practice. The modern research of traditional Chinese medicine, will have "modern interpretation" of Chinese medicine theory as the main research direction, because only the interpretation of modern Chinese medicine theory to create necessary conditions for combination of Chinese and western medicine. Also profoundly aware that, modern interpretation of the theory of traditional Chinese medicine, is much more than language transformation such a simple question, is fundamental to modern science level of explanation. So, the modern interpretation of the actual is to deepen the theoretical research of traditional Chinese medicine, is a leap and breakthrough in theory, and it must be by means of modern science and technology support to complete.

        Another cause of the disputes of combine traditional Chinese and western medicine, is some people think that is the "westernization" of traditional Chinese medicine combine traditional Chinese and western medicine, to remove westernised, will be to combine traditional Chinese and western medicine. This kind of know it, because the present some westernization phenomenon is indeed is a combination of Chinese and western medicine, called combine traditional Chinese and western medicine, western medicine is given priority to, but it is the doctor of traditional Chinese medicine is complementary. But, can't so the westward expansion of traditional Chinese medicine. In terms of clinical, combine traditional Chinese and western medicine is the combination of advantages method first, but is not an advantage method is judged by clinical curative effect. So, different disease or different stages of the disease, advantages of Chinese and western medicine treatment is different, the disease is given priority to with Chinese medicine, western medicine is complementary; 2 pet disease is given priority to with western medicine, Chinese medicine is complementary, could not have every kind of disease is half Chinese and western medicine, are less likely to highlight the doctor of traditional Chinese medicine, are mainly of traditional Chinese medicine. Edge method is the combination of Chinese and western medicine in clinical of TCM has become common, objective analysis and treated correctly, which need not universally regarded as westernization, otherwise will influence the clinical combine traditional Chinese and western medicine research and development.

        Development to see, evaluation of the advantages of the Chinese and western medicine, focusing on curative effect advantage is not comprehensive, should also pay attention to its economic advantages. Especially in some areas where economy is not developed, regardless of the economic advantages are not enough. Efficacy advantages and economic advantages, therefore, simultaneously, should become the direction of future efforts to combine traditional Chinese and western medicine clinical research work.

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