What is Chinese medicine?

Traditional Chinese medicine is a comprehensive science which focuses on the theory and practical experience of traditional Chinese medicine and studies the transformation law of health and disease in human life activities and its prevention, diagnosis, treatment, rehabilitation and health care.

The theory of TCM comes from the summary of medical experience and China's ancient thought of Yin-Yang and Five Elements. Its contents include the theory of essence and qi, the theory of yin and yang and five elements, qi and blood, body fluid, viscera and meridians, constitution, etiology and pathogenesis, treatment principles, health preservation and so on. As early as more than two thousand years ago, the monograph Huangdi Neijing came out, which laid the foundation of traditional Chinese medicine.

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Traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) diagnoses diseases according to the results of listening, speaking and questioning, but there are also cases where only diseases are distinguished without distinguishing (such as emergencies or special prescriptions for diseases), or cases where only diseases are distinguished without distinguishing (such as unknown diseases, incurable diseases or physical conditioning). Different from the way western medicine pays attention to "disease" in diagnosis, Chinese medicine often emphasizes "dialectics"

Some Chinese medicine practitioners believe that one of the values of Chinese medicine lies in prescriptions, which are the crystallization of doctors' experience. The development of traditional Chinese medicine itself is experimental medicine, especially the classic prescriptions and prescriptions that have been repeatedly used by countless doctors in clinical human experiments for hundreds or even thousands of years and proved to be effective. Facing the disease directly, mastering the main syndrome, choosing the prescription of the syndrome to add or subtract, and not sticking to the theory can treat the disease, which is the true face of the essence of TCM syndrome differentiation and treatment.

Modern Chinese medicine also adopts the combination of traditional Chinese and western medicine. Especially in Chinese mainland, modern medical detection methods are used to assist diagnosis, and Chinese medicine can treat patients with integrated traditional Chinese and western medicine.

Baidu Encyclopedia-Traditional Chinese Medicine (Medical Science)