Chinese medicine "cure not ill" and the "tertiary prevention"

NingWeiXia Second people's hospital of chengdu in sichuan province

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        When people turn over the historical picture scroll of preventive medicine, will be surprised to find that on the title page, is inscribed with the words of the old saying "cure not ill". Indeed, in the Chinese ancient medical books huangdi neijing recorded in "sage does not have disease cure cure not ill, not cure has not disorderly disorderly put to" wake up the world famous, created a world of preventive medicine. Modern western medicine based on this, puts forward three-level prevention strategies, namely the etiology, prevention, disease prevention, clinical prevention, and always runs through in the medical practice.

        In recent years, some domestic innovation proposed the theory of western medicine "cure not ill", in fact, compared to the same. Western medicine is the first level of prevention against pathogenic factors and prevention measures taken by the body to the environment, and the doctor of traditional Chinese medicine "no disease prevention first" consistent; Secondary prevention medicine is "three early" - early detection, early diagnosis, early treatment, prevention measures, this state is similar to traditional Chinese medicine calls the "desire"; Third-level prevention refers to the western medicine for the patients suffering from some disease, timely treatment, to prevent deterioration. In patients with chronic diseases through medical care, reduce the adverse effects of the disease, prevention of complications and recurrent diseases and disability. To have lost Labour or maimed by medical rehabilitation, promote their physical and mental aspects of the recover at an early date, in order to take part in social activities and prolong life. This has to do with Chinese medicine "Hyman, Chai defence" of the difference is not big. Western medicine in the first primary measures for primary prevention health education, the primary measures for "prevention before disease" of traditional Chinese medicine keeping in good health, completely consistent, the purpose is to improve the individual self health care consciousness and self health care ability and group level.

        There raises a concept, namely, self care, it is the essences of western medicine and Chinese medicine to prevent disease. Relevant research shows that, there is no health professionals to participate in self care accounted for 65% ~ 85% of people need health care. So, there is a saying well, the best doctor is yourself.

        Self-care is defined to maintain and improve health for people, for the prevention, detection and treatment of disease, health behavior, and you take the health-related decisions. It is care mode from "dependent" to the embodiment of "self-help" type development, including individual, family, neighbors, co-workers, and unit is characterized by self-help (also including mutual care activities. In which people practice the body on the ego to protect, psychological self adjusting, self control on behavior and way of life and relationships of self adjustment is a self of the four major aspects of care.

        Obviously, self health care consciousness and ability can not spontaneously and have, only through practical, health education and the learning of medical knowledge to obtain and master, and accept education and self-consciousness and initiative for the acquisition of knowledge, it is people to strengthen the consciousness of self health care and improve self-care ability. , of course, especially in our country community, western medicine health education and the traditional Chinese medicine keeping in good health shall be knowledge and skills teaching organically, it is not only the advantages of Chinese medicine, can greatly improve the level of disease prevention, but also offer beneficial reference and promote the development of preventive medicine in the world.

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