The long history of Chinese medicine?

The origin of the name "Traditional Chinese Medicine". In ancient books of China, traditional medicines are often expressed by the names of "medicine", "poison" or "poison". The word "traditional Chinese medicine" was first recorded in Shennong's Classic of Materia Medica, which classified drugs into three categories according to their toxicity: upper, middle and lower. Among them, "120 kinds of Chinese medicine are ministers, and their major is people." They are non-toxic and toxic, so their suitability should be considered. Those who want to stop the disease and make up for it are also in the middle. " The "traditional Chinese medicine" here is a kind of classification and terminology, and it is a kind of non-toxic or toxic traditional Chinese medicine, which can not only tonify deficiency but also eliminate evil.

The wide application of the term "traditional Chinese medicine" is directly related to the import of foreign drugs (especially western medicine). The foreign drugs introduced in the early days had little influence on the traditional pharmacy in China, and were soon included in the compendium of materia medica of past dynasties, which endowed the theoretical system of traditional Chinese medicine with unique connotation and enriched and developed the traditional pharmacy in China. For example, New Materia Medica VIII contains at least 27 kinds of medicinal materials that are not produced in China; Most of the drug producing areas included in "Haiyao Materia Medica" 9 are foreign place names.

17-18th century, with the accelerated spread of western learning in China, the input of western medicine is increasing day by day. Because of the obvious differences between Chinese and western medicine, people gradually call China traditional medicine "Chinese medicine" for the sake of distinguishing it easily. For example, the topic of "Chinese medicine" appeared in the examination paper of "doctors" in the late Qing Dynasty; Zhang Xichun 10 clearly put forward the concepts of "traditional Chinese medicine" and "western medicine" and their differences. As a cloud goes, "Western medicine takes local materials, which is the key to treating diseases." Seeking the cause of TCM is the root of the disease. Both symptoms and root causes should be considered. If the distress is treated by western medicine and the root of the disease is treated by Chinese medicine, the effect is successful and the clinical evidence is indeed positive. "