Xinhua: the inheritance and development of the theory of traditional Chinese medicine

The 2013-05-04"

Author: liu hua for

        The succession and development of the TCM is not only an old proposition, it is a new problem, what is involved in traditional Chinese medicine for flag, what way. In other words, actually is comprehensively and systematically inherited? Or selective inheritance? Is based on traditional Chinese medicine's own law of development? Or according to the pattern or the modern western medicine science of thinking to change? This is the big choices in front of doctor of traditional Chinese medicine, in all the major thinking and attention to this problem. The author thinks that, inheritance is the top priority, comprehensively and systematically to inherit traditional Chinese medicine basic theory and method is the essence of the development of traditional Chinese medicine; The development of traditional Chinese medicine to go his own way, that is, in accordance with the law to develop itself.

        From the present situation of the medicine to see the importance of inheritance

        Traditional Chinese medicine for thousands of years of glorious history, she as the multiplication and prosperity of the Chinese nation has made a great contribution. But there is a potential crisis. This crisis is mainly manifested in the following respects.

        One of traditional Chinese medicine (TCM), the face is no longer cut down, but PengSha and clipping. Since western culture and western medicine was introduced into China, the traditional culture have been discriminated against Chinese medicine has also been put on the "unscientific" and "backward" and "simple" hat, slashing, several times nearly wiped away. Thanks to it can help people cure disease, popular with common people, said it was a treasure. Some people worship things, however, that she is trash. Chinese medicine had a similar to the wall, and the bad. According to historical records, the spring and autumn period and the warring states period, chu "bian and found a wall piece of jade, holding to the chu king, expert testimony is stone, so he cut his foot. Chu featuring in office, and to present a treasure, experts also say is stone, and cut his other foot. ChuWen king reigned, and holding the wall and wept for three days and three nights in the mountains, the tears dry, and even bleeding, touched ChuWen king, open the stone and discovered the glittering jade wall, prove that it is indeed a national treasure. TCM is like jade, the wall the kuomintang to eliminate it, before liberation are cut down one foot of traditional Chinese medicine, liberation from to transform it, and cut down the doctor of traditional Chinese medicine the other foot, thanks to the party central committee chairman MAO found problems in time, formulated the policy of traditional Chinese medicine. Chairman MAO said: "Chinese medicine is a great treasure, should seek to improve". Over the past century, tried to destroy the doctor of traditional Chinese medicine is failed, but the transformation of traditional Chinese medicine is really a success. Present on the surface, the doctor of traditional Chinese medicine seems to be thriving, the country has a dozen department is scrambling to study TCM, management of traditional Chinese medicine, the mining of traditional Chinese medicine, Chinese medicine modernization of traditional Chinese medicine is "tang's monk meat". Institutions of traditional Chinese medicine is also dotted, from national to local, there are traditional Chinese medicine scientific research institution, land-saving county have hospitals of traditional Chinese medicine, the provinces are mostly have Chinese medicine colleges and universities, there are technical secondary school, junior college, bachelor, master, doctor, professor. Every western medicine TCM have some, it seems that Chinese medicine and western medicine are equal. Preferential policies not only that, but also the traditional Chinese medicine, Chinese medicine and western medicine no, countries specifically for Chinese medicine formulated the development regulations, specifically the name old doctor of traditional Chinese medicine is equipped with assistant. Less but in fact the real connotation of traditional Chinese medicine, western medicine ingredient is increasing, constant transformation of traditional Chinese medicine with western medicine mode, hospital of traditional Chinese medicine department also crown of disease in western medicine, Chinese medicine became a transform object, a colorful bubble in Chinese medicine. The doctor of traditional Chinese medicine is being PengSha and clipping.

        In recent years, under the slogan of "modernization of traditional Chinese medicine", the experts clipping of traditional Chinese medicine with modern medicine knowledge, make fall into the predicament of the medical waste save medicine in TCM. Main show is:

        (a) attempts to western medicine, pharmacology, medicine chemical theory as the basis, carries on the extraction of active ingredients of Chinese herbal medicine to illustrate and explain its function and the attending, or with western medicine diagnosis of disease, to use one or a few prescriptions of traditional Chinese medicine, for targeted, aggression, specific prescription for special effects. Think westernization is the modernization of traditional Chinese medicine. Argue with simple western medicine disease instead of complex of traditional Chinese medicine; Replace the TCM prescription compatibility is extracted by pure drugs; In an effective compound research corresponding alternatives. This made mistake "" approach is not desirable. This is because: first, in the laboratory single extraction by the efficacy of Chinese herbal medicine effective component or the effective parts, is not the same as it on the human body can play a corresponding role. Especially for oral administration to the human body, its active ingredients and pharmacological effects in some corresponding of digestive enzymes, are subject to change, not necessarily can obtain corresponding effect. After compatibility of medicine ingredient is complex, is more complex. Compound efficacy of ingredients, in addition to the organic ingredients, and inorganic elements and organic composition of complexes and the winding and function between them. Such a variety of ingredients, its role in the body multiple targets through various channels, and the overall effect. Single drug to extract the effective parts or active ingredients, undermine the integrity of traditional Chinese medicine, scientific compatibility, relevance and the essence of syndrome differentiation and treatment. Extracting berberine from rhizoma coptidis, for example, can only be used for bacterial dysentery, and rhizoma coptidis in addition to the call, except vexed, improving eyesight, purging fire, compatibility, may play a different role, such as matching combination not only can cure dysentery, can delay, reduce tenesmus; Can it cure with pinellia sheen open bitter drop under the new heart full; And as to extract artemisinin from artemisia annua can treat malaria, and traditional Chinese medicine artemisinin can clear liver and gallbladder damp and hot, bone steaming hot, also can make a lot of prescriptions, such as artemisinin turtle shell powder, artemisia Qin qing bile soup, etc. It's like a small stone, no match together and explosives, its power is not big, if match together and explosives, lit their lethality is greatly enhanced. Visible and effective traditional Chinese medicine is not a few basic unit, but in the combination between them form the whole function. Units in the second, even if the compound drug efficacy function figure it out, that is not the effect of the compound. Because compound drugs have a compatibility problem in proportion, compound before no compatibility in proportion, the units in the compound drug efficacy is short of compound efficacy. As water is composed of a two atoms of hydrogen and oxygen atoms, if before pressing a combination ratio under certain conditions, H and H, O and O, never on behalf of the function of the water. So many strange building, in the world if you put it back into the common material, is composed of cement, sand, wood, stone, steel, if there is no certain proportion, still can't cover into a building, more can't replace the function of the building. Again, such as raw, pulse is composed of ginseng, dwarf lilyturf, fruit of Chinese magnoliavine in proportion to compound, party in fructus schisandrae contain a small amount of 5 - hydroxy methyl 2 furfural in compound or Fried increases as the amount of dwarf lilyturf, ginseng saponins contained as changed. Pharmacodynamics experiments show that the original party panax ginseng, radix ophiopogonis, fructus schisandrae at 1:3:1) 5 percentage of compatibility, is reasonable and correct. On the other hand, if small amount of dwarf lilyturf, the effects of the other two ingredients will not increase. Third, make effective compound, such as bolus of 6 flavour glutinous rehmannia, fill in yiqi pills, small bupleurum soup and so on, is also under the guidance of TCM theory, according to the fujin, seven emotions and integration, four principles of mixed gas, lift off and realize multiple effect. Which embodies a combination of both complementary, unity and reflected the contradiction between opposite each other, it is not a single drug efficacy function together. Now the study of single ingredient can explain the material basis of its mechanism of action and definitely not representative compound function. Fourth, the compound studies another key problem is the corresponding. The so-called "there is card use is". Left a card to explain Chinese medicine efficacy and safety of the compound is not conform to the clinical practice of TCM. Even if effective prescriptions, if the card does not conform to, even opposite effect occurs, such as deficiency of constipation, misuse of big bearing gas soup can appear abdominal distension abdominal pain, even happen collapse. This is not a big bearing gas soup compatibility is not good, but the certificate is not consistent.

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