Chinese medicine culture confidence has to catch up on a lesson

The 2018-09-05 health

In recent years, the development of traditional Chinese medicine has ushered in great opportunities in the right time, in the right place and in the right person. However, problems still exist, such as the weakening of the thinking of traditional Chinese medicine, the westernization of traditional Chinese medicine evaluation, and the weakening of the advantages of traditional Chinese medicine characteristics. Therefore, it is necessary to make up for the lesson of "cultural self-confidence of traditional Chinese medicine". General secretary xi jinping pointed out in the 19th report: "" culture is the soul of a country and a nation. Cultural prosperity, national prosperity, strong culture, strong nation. Without a high level of cultural confidence, without a thriving culture, there will be no great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation." Traditional Chinese medicine is the key to the treasure house of Chinese civilization. The prosperity and prosperity of Chinese culture must include the prosperity and prosperity of traditional Chinese medicine, which also requires a high degree of cultural confidence of traditional Chinese medicine. Therefore, it is necessary to study and explore the characteristics of TCM cultural confidence.

The author believes that the cultural confidence of TCM is the Chinese nation's recognition and affirmation of the intrinsic value of TCM, firm belief in inheriting and developing TCM, and correct understanding of the advantages and disadvantages of TCM. "Those who are internal must be external." If Chinese doctors have a high level of cultural confidence, there must be a specific cultural confidence to "external". The expression of cultural confidence in Chinese medicine contains at least the following five characteristics.

Adequate cognition

As a complex subject with thousands of years of history, Chinese medicine should be fully recognized before making a fair and objective evaluation. Being able to have a correct understanding of the advantages and disadvantages of TCM is the premise and basic requirement of the cultural confidence of TCM, which requires TCM people to have a relatively complete and systematic cognition of the formation, development process, theoretical system and practical experience of TCM. In my opinion, the following two points are particularly important:

One is to fully recognize the philosophical wisdom contained in TCM. Traditional Chinese medicine has absorbed a lot of philosophical wisdom in Chinese culture, some of which become more vivid and specific through the digestion and absorption of traditional Chinese medicine and active creation. For example, the Chinese traditional philosophy of "unity of heaven and man" and "neutralization" are all integrated into the blood of traditional Chinese medicine. "The unity of man and nature" refers to the mutual connection, similarity and unity between heaven and humanity, nature and man. It is not only one of the ways of thinking in ancient Chinese philosophy, but also the ideal state of life. TCM has developed the philosophy of "the unity of heaven and man", put forward the principle of preventing and treating diseases according to nature, and embodied "the unity of heaven and man" in all aspects of TCM.

"Neutralization" is one of the basic spirits of Chinese traditional culture, an ideal state for the existence of all things, and the supreme law of the universe. TCM inherits and develops the theory of "neutralization". Traditional Chinese medicine believes that the physiological state is "harmony between Yin and Yang", when diseases occur "incompatibility between Yin and Yang", the diagnosis is to "observe its disharmony", and the treatment should be "disharmony between them". The understanding and pursuit of harmony in traditional Chinese medicine runs through the prevention and treatment of diseases.

The second is to fully recognize the unique medical theoretical system of TCM. Guided by the wisdom of Chinese traditional philosophy, traditional Chinese medicine has extracted and summarized its unique theoretical system of medicine through its own experience accumulation and the discovery of doctors. The theoretical system of traditional Chinese medicine is complete in principle, method, prescription and medicine. Many natural and human laws discovered and summarized by the ancient people have undergone clinical examination for thousands of years, and their effects are undoubtedly clear.

Valued affirmation

For each individual, the essence of cultural confidence is a kind of value confidence, which is the recognition and affirmation of their own culture. The cultural confidence of traditional Chinese medicine manifests itself in the recognition and affirmation of traditional Chinese medicine. Without the affirmation of the value of traditional Chinese medicine, it will fall into the total negation of traditional Chinese medicine regardless of facts and presuppositions. The author believes that the value of cultural confidence in TCM should be reflected in the following three aspects:

One is to affirm the rich connotation of traditional Chinese medicine. It's not just Chinese medicine practitioners taking their pulse and prescription in the clinic, from artemisinin tu youyou won the Nobel Prize for her work to "space heart-nourishing pill" taken by shen-6 astronauts, from honeysuckle in longhuimu, hunan province, to the daily saying of health preservation: "eat radish in winter, eat ginger in summer".

Second, it affirms the historical contribution of TCM. Traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) is an original medical science of the Chinese nation. Before modern medicine entered China, it has been deeply integrated into the production and living practices of the public. It has become an important means for people to treat diseases, improve their health, prolong their life and maintain their health. Historically, the Chinese nation has survived many natural disasters, wars and plagues, yet it has been able to save itself from one disaster after another.

Thirdly, it affirms the practical function of TCM. China is a developing country with the largest population in the world, and it has established a medical system of basic universal coverage with low health input and maintained a high average life expectancy. According to the white paper "Chinese medicine in China" released in 2016, the total number of medical and health institutions of traditional Chinese medicine in China reached 910 million in 2015, and the number of discharged from hospitals of traditional Chinese medicine reached 26915 million. Traditional Chinese medicine plays an irreplaceable role in the current health system.

Don dared to learn from

From the perspective of world medical history, traditional medicine is not limited to traditional Chinese medicine. However, the vast majority of traditional medicine fails to keep pace with The Times and meet the requirements of The Times. As a kind of traditional medicine, traditional Chinese medicine is able to inherit for a thousand years and play an important role in modern times.

The source of traditional Chinese medicine is the ancients found in everyday life and accumulation can alleviate symptoms of different herbs, span of thorn site, hot compress methods, such as words formed after the onset of scattered and not a system of clinical medical records, and then in the process of development with increasingly rich and reference of experience, absorb the most advanced theory and technology at the time, and formed the system theory and method of traditional Chinese medicine. In modern times, there is a huge gap between Chinese medicine and modern medicine in terms of borrowing modern science and technology for its own use, which is one of the reasons why people criticize Chinese medicine as "conservative" and "backward". However, this is related to the theoretical sources and disciplinary paradigms of TCM, which are quite different from modern science and technology. Therefore, it cannot be denied that TCM has been trying to learn from modern science and technology.

innovation

Has attaches great importance to the innovation of traditional Chinese medicine, from huangdi neijing period established the basic theory of TCM, syndrome differentiation and treatment to the treatise on febrile disease of zhang zhongjing in han dynasty was founded system, four people to jinyuan through theoretical innovation form the academic schools of thought contend, and then to the Ming and qing dynasties science of seasonal febrile diseases said big sheng in response to the pestilence, and with the collision, communication, combined with modern medicine, suggests that is in the constant innovation of traditional Chinese medicine.

In recent decades, due to changes in lifestyle and diet structure, chronic non-communicable diseases such as diabetes and hypertension have become major problems affecting people's health, and TCM has encountered new challenges in the new environment. A high degree of cultural confidence of TCM demands that, if TCM wants to better solve these medical problems, it should constantly innovate, including innovating TCM diagnosis and treatment methods, talent cultivation methods, etc., to promote the scientific development of TCM career.

Learn to practice

Diligence in practice is the ultimate sign of cultural confidence in TCM. General secretary xi jinping stressed that "empty talk is harmful to the country and the country is prosperous", and pointed out that "tao cannot sit down and virtue cannot talk". Chinese medicine has connotation, value, dares to draw lessons from, can innovate, must show in practice finally. If in real life dare not use, cannot use, USES the bad Chinese medicine, explained Chinese medicine can only be the dead knowledge in the dead paper heap, that Chinese medicine so-called connotation, the value becomes the castle in the air, Chinese medicine culture self-confidence also has no way to speak. In terms of the clinical diagnosis and treatment of traditional Chinese medicine, which is most closely related to the public, Chinese medicine master xiong jimbo believes that "the vitality of traditional Chinese medicine lies in clinical practice". Curative effect and its effect on people's disease prevention and treatment is the premise of the continuous existence and development of TCM, and the most distinctive feature of its cultural confidence.