Traditional Chinese medicine: constant innovation to sustainable heritage

Time: 2015-11-18

Source: China's traditional Chinese medicine

Author: GengFu can

The world health organization (who) could be divided into modern medicine and traditional medicine medicine, alternative medicine, as early as 1969, put forward "different kinds of traditional medicine has been widely used in many countries", 1978, the declaration of alma-ata affirmed the role of traditional medicine in human health system, published in 2002, 2013, successively the world health organization strategy of traditional medicine, 2002-2005 "and the world health organization strategy of traditional medicine, 2014-2023" clearly put forward to promote the development direction of traditional medicine into national health care system, the need for the corresponding strategic planning, as represented by traditional Chinese medicine traditional medicine ushered in the good environment for international development.

All nationalities in the world of medicine and pharmacy, such as the national language, customs, is an important part of national culture. Under the party and the country attaches great importance to and vigorously support, obtained the rapid development of Chinese medicine, not only for the benefit of our people, and is recognized by more and more countries.

As a kind of medical philosophy of traditional Chinese medicine, originated from 2000 years ago in huangdi neijing. "Chinese medicine" two words are found in the earliest "han, han dynasty, the party", "good hot and cold cold, not see at outside, is the only loss also." "Sick don't cure, often to the traditional Chinese medicine" (here, read the word falling tone,). The term "TCM" appear truly is in before and after the opium war. The east India company's doctors as the difference between the two countries of different treatment methods of traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) named Chinese medicine. At this time of the names of traditional Chinese medicine is for different medical method (commonly known as the western medicine) and other countries to do a contrast. In 1936, the KMT government established the Chinese medicine ordinance formal legal "TCM" two words. In the past, people also called Chinese medicine as "han medicine", "traditional medicine", "national physician", these are different from western medicine and has appeared.

In under the guidance of the basic theory of traditional Chinese medicine use of drugs is the traditional Chinese medicine, using modern technology research and development of traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) should also be within the category of traditional Chinese medicine (TCM). Chinese scientists tu since 2015 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine ", "online related hot topics were struggling. Among them, the discussion of "artemisinin is Chinese traditional medicine". The author believed that artemisinin is undoubtedly of traditional Chinese medicine into the era of modern cellular and molecular medicine, must be Chinese traditional medicine, also is the inevitable result of development of Chinese medicine after age of progress. The extraction and separation technology from plant drugs, is the inevitable result of the human society into the era of molecular. Found believes that after the era of molecular medicine is western medicine, has nothing to do with traditional Chinese medicine (TCM), is to stop the Chinese medicine into the era of molecular, killing its survival and development space.

Aristotle said, science is "about the eternal and certainty of knowledge... knowledge also is science". The human compared to the known scientific nature, the universe space is just a drop in the ocean. After thousands of years of traditional Chinese medicine of the Chinese nation of human experience, selection and graphic accumulation of wisdom, it is knowledge, basically belongs to the category of science, even more than the west ancient and modern medical theory system. Modern optical the latest achievements in disciplines such as chemistry, physics, completely can be applied in traditional Chinese medicine. Modern technology such as nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR), microscope, electrocardiogram (ecg) are the result of the modern interdisciplinary comprehensive development, is the wisdom of human being, not natural belongs to western medicine.

Is the Chinese nation for thousands of years of traditional Chinese medicine formed in the production practice of life and to fight disease and developed continuously, including traditional medicine and modern medicine. Traditional medicine containing Chinese medicine, Tibetan medicine, Mongolian Mongolian, miao miao medicine, modern medicine with modern science and technology combined with traditional Chinese medicine (TCM). This is the Chinese medicine, is the real Chinese medicine.

Chinese and western cultural exchange is a good thing, also absorbed a lot of useful things in modern China. But culture is the soul of a nation, if foreign culture survival pose a threat to our national culture, even if is not a blessing. The development of Chinese modern extreme sometimes present wholesale westernization and bigotry sex, make get due protection of Chinese traditional culture and even to be the object of the attack, bear the brunt of traditional Chinese medicine, are still suffering.

If no our traditional medicine, said the Chinese medicine unscientific, should be repealed, is to destroy our culture; If our modern medicine as western medicine, western medicine is to make our innovation and development of traditional Chinese medicine can not find direction, become a stray lamb. Don't let us use modern language description of Chinese medicine, modern doctors and patients can't read Chinese medicine instruction, is in the ligation of traditional Chinese medicine; Don't let Chinese medicine into the cellular and molecular era, traditional Chinese medicine into the cellular and molecular era is to western medicine, western medicine is in hinders the development of traditional Chinese medicine!

Chinese medicine is with the progress of science and technology and social development. To exclude traditional Chinese medicine in the modern science and technology is wrong, to develop the traditional Chinese medicine is to realize the revitalization of the Chinese nation the only way the Chinese dream! (the author is deputy to the National People's Congress, the good doctor pharmaceutical group chairman of the board of directors)