Slow disease threat to traditional Chinese

medicine development opportunities

China's traditional Chinese medicine reported

    Of the 20 th century, human disease patterns to give priority to the infectious diseases to chronic non-communicable diseases (i.e. slow disease) as XunJi change, or will let Chinese medicine to human health, the front desk to the development of Chinese medicine a rare historical opportunity.

    A few days ago, after ten years ago on HIV/AIDS prevention and control conference held after the United Nations history, the second time a high level meeting to health problems, global mobilization slow disease to the health of human beings and the threat of development. The data show that cardio-cerebrovascular disease, diabetes, cancer, chronic respiratory disease such as slow as the disease has become the top killer of human beings. In 2008, 36 million people died of such diseases, that accounts for 63% of deaths worldwide. The world health organization estimates, in the next 10 years, the rate will reach 80%.

    Western medicine, traditional Chinese medicine is the director of the short. To adapt to the change of the disease patterns, in order to western medicine as the leading modern medicine and biomedical mode to the biological-social environment model, psychological- from the disease as the center to the life and health of people as the center to change. And the change of direction, just is to emphasize that the overall concept, syndrome differentiation and treatment, "cure is not ill" of traditional Chinese medicine has always advocated the core concept. The more exciting is different from the modern medicine, to slow disease is still in the exploration, traditional Chinese medicine in the thousands of years has accumulated in the practice of prevention and control of slow disease, the health care of rich experience and means.

    Just released a data like verifiable. According to the 2009 basic present situation of traditional Chinese medicine investigation report "shows that in this people according to the traditional medicine hospital sort the top ten advantage plants have stroke disease (cerebral infarction), waist pain disease (prolapse of lumbar intervertebral disc), item bi disease (cervical spondylosis), XiaoKeBing (diabetes), dizziness disease (high blood pressure), weiwantong disease (chronic gastritis), obstruction of XinTongBing (coronary heart disease), HaiSouBing, infertility disease, liver disease, etc. These are mostly slow to disease, the more have a lot of patients QiuZhi western medicine is not ideal and turn to the satisfaction of the curative effect of traditional Chinese medicine. As for help herbs, acupuncture and moxibustion, massage, cutem, healthcare, etc, and practicing recuperation body qigong · wuqinxi, tai chi, and strengthen the illnesses are numerous, and has become the daily life of the people and health care the way.

    Coordinated development of traditional Chinese and western medicine, is our country medicine and health of the cause of the important characteristics and significant advantage. Facing the challenges and threats slow disease and promoting the development of traditional Chinese medicine, give full play to its advantages in this aspect of the characteristics, and western medicine in China can complement each other completely out of a unique and effective way to deal with, to make new contributions to human health.

    And, if half a century ago in under the background of global deal with infectious diseases, artesunate is found that the traditional Chinese medical science to the health of human being a gift, so, we also believe, Chinese medicine in dealing with cardiovascular disease, cancer and other great slow, will find that the second, third and even more "artesunate".

    WangShuJun