Historical background and achievements of integrated traditional Chinese and western medicine

In the early days of the founding of the People's Republic of China, the national government inherited the health policy of Yan 'an period and paid attention to supporting and protecting Chinese medicine. However, due to the resurgence of the idea of abandoned Chinese medicine, some leaders of health departments have formulated some wrong health policies under the banner of scientific Chinese medicine, which greatly hindered the normal inheritance and development of Chinese medicine. President Mao Zedong discovered and criticized this mistake in time. The third national health administrative conference began to reverse the tendency of "contempt and discrimination" against Chinese medicine. Later, the correct policy of combining traditional Chinese and western medicine was gradually established, and the revolution of ideological understanding and policy of traditional Chinese medicine treatment was realized.

Integration of traditional Chinese and western medicine is a process in which medical talents who are proficient in traditional Chinese and western medicine use modern scientific knowledge and methods to explore, sort out and study the medical heritage of the motherland, enrich modern medical science and develop a unified new medicine with China national characteristics. In the course of decades of practice, the clinical and experimental research of integrated traditional Chinese and western medicine has achieved many gratifying achievements and valuable experience. Facts have proved that the combination of traditional Chinese and western medicine is one of the important ways to promote Chinese medicine, and Chinese medicine can make continuous progress along the traditional and modern roads. —— Excerpted from the History of the Development of Integrated Traditional Chinese and Western Medicine in China.