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What do you think of Chinese medicine?

Traditional Chinese medicine bears the experience and theoretical knowledge of ancient people in China in fighting diseases. It is a medical theoretical system gradually formed and developed through long-term medical practice under the guidance of ancient naive materialism and spontaneous dialectics. Chinese medicine was born in primitive society, and the theory of Chinese medicine was basically formed in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, and was summarized and developed in past dynasties.

In addition, it has a far-reaching influence on the countries in the cultural circle of Chinese characters, such as Japanese medicine, Korean medicine, Korean medicine and Vietnamese oriental medicine, which are all developed on the basis of Chinese medicine.

Traditional Chinese medicine characteristics

Traditional Chinese medicine has a complete theoretical system, and its uniqueness lies in the holistic view of "harmony between man and nature" and "correspondence between man and nature" and its treatment based on syndrome differentiation. The main features are:

People think that man is a part of nature, which consists of yin and yang. Yin and Yang are opposites and interdependent, always moving and changing. Under normal physiological conditions, they are in a state of dynamic balance, and once this dynamic balance is destroyed, it presents a pathological state.

However, when treating diseases and correcting the imbalance between Yin and Yang, we don't look at the problem in an isolated and static way, but mostly from a dynamic point of view, that is, we emphasize the concept of constant movement, and think that man and nature are a unified whole, that is, "harmony between man and nature" and "correspondence between man and nature".