One of the quintessence of traditional Chinese medicine, why is it related to Taoism?

Taoism was founded by Zhang Daoling in the late Eastern Han Dynasty. On the one hand, he preached in Shu and "exorcised ghosts", and he also treated people with water spells and spells.

In other words, Taoism has the task of "curing diseases and saving lives" from the beginning.

At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, there was a great plague, and Zhang Jiao also accumulated word of mouth and believers through treatment.

Taoism pursues immortality and pays attention to the cultivation of the human body itself. In order to achieve the goal of immortality, alchemy is an essential lesson of Taoism. Such a Taoist practitioner has mastered a lot of necessary "knowledge" than ordinary people. Of course, this process will enable them to accumulate considerable "medical knowledge".

Traditional Chinese medicine is empirical medicine, and there is no particularly complete medical theory. Many medical theories are mysterious, even mysterious, which makes it difficult for ordinary people to understand. This has many similarities with Taoism.

In addition, there are few doctors in vast rural and remote areas. Many traveling Taoist priests became doctors because they knew "medicine".

Because of the limitation of understanding, many places think that many diseases are caused by ghosts, and only Taoist priests can subdue these ghosts. This situation still happens from time to time until now.

More importantly, Taoist culture is China's traditional thought, which is inextricably linked with Taoism. This traditional thought is one of the cultural foundations of China people.

Confucianism is above the temple and Taoism is among the people, which constitutes the yin and yang poles of China culture.

Taoism, born out of Taoist thought, has become a belief. Because people believe in it, it has been developing vigorously until now. When they get sick again or encounter unsolvable problems, they will ask the Taoist for help.

Where did western science develop from theology? It is not an exaggeration to say that traditional medicine in China was born out of Taoism.

Coupled with thousands of years of historical traditions in China, the development is extremely slow. Taoism and Chinese medicine have always been intertwined, so it is naturally difficult to completely separate them.