What Are Your Thoughts and Perceptions of Traditional Chinese Medicine?
In fact, traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) is not just a treasure of China. In our daily lives, we cannot do without TCM health preservation. For example, in autumn, we drink chrysanthemum tea to clear heat, and in summer, we cook mung bean porridge to cool off. This has a lot to do with our TCM culture. For some friends in the south, they even use some traditional Chinese medicinal herbs to make soup to regulate their bodies. Therefore, TCM is not far from our lives, but even very close. It also greatly helps us to regulate our bodies.
TCM generally refers to the traditional medicine created by the working people of the Han nationality in China, so it is also called Han medicine. It is a discipline that studies human physiology, pathology, and the diagnosis and prevention of diseases. TCM was born in primitive society, and its theory was basically formed during the Spring and Autumn and Warring States periods. Since then, there have been summaries and developments in every generation. In addition, it has had a far-reaching influence on countries in the Chinese character cultural circle, such as Japanese Kampo medicine, Korean Korean medicine, North Korean Koryo medicine, and Vietnamese Dong medicine, which are all developed based on TCM. TCM carries the experience and theoretical knowledge of the ancient Chinese people in fighting diseases. It is a medical theoretical system gradually formed and developed through long-term medical practice under the guidance of ancient simple materialism and spontaneous dialectics.
TCM uses the theory of yin and yang and the five elements as its theoretical basis, and regards the human body as a unity of qi, form, and spirit. Through the method of "observation, auscultation, inquiry, and palpation", it explores the causes, nature, and location of diseases, analyzes the changes in the internal organs, meridians, joints, qi, blood, and body fluids, judges the growth and decline of pathogenic and healthy qi, and then determines the name of the disease and summarizes the syndrome type. Based on the principle of syndrome differentiation and treatment, it formulates treatment methods such as sweating, vomiting, purging, harmonizing, warming, clearing, tonifying, and dissipating, and uses various treatment methods such as traditional Chinese medicine, acupuncture, massage, moxibustion, cupping, qigong, and dietary therapy to achieve yin-yang harmony and recovery of the human body.
The theoretical system of TCM was gradually formed through long-term clinical practice under the guidance of materialism and dialectics. It comes from practice and in turn guides practice. Through the analysis of phenomena, it explores their inherent mechanisms. Therefore, this unique theoretical system of TCM has two basic characteristics: one is the overall concept, and the other is syndrome differentiation and treatment. The basic theory of TCM is a theoretical summary of human life activities and the laws of disease changes. It mainly includes theories such as yin and yang, the five elements, qi, blood, and body fluids, visceral manifestations, meridians, and qi movement, as well as the content of etiology, pathogenesis, diagnostic methods, syndrome differentiation, treatment principles and methods, prevention, and health preservation.
