The manifestations of Chinese medicine mainly include the following points.

The medicinal properties of traditional Chinese medicine mainly include four qi and five flavors, ups and downs, meridian tropism and toxicity.

The medicinal properties of traditional Chinese medicine, also known as medicinal properties, are summarized according to the body reaction after taking the medicine, taking the human body as the observation object. The theory of medicinal properties is the core of TCM theory, which mainly includes four qi, five flavors, meridian tropism, ups and downs, toxicity and so on.

1, four gases and five flavors

(1) Four Qi: Also known as four natures, namely cold, hot, warm and cool. The medicinal properties of drugs are theories summarized from the different reactions or therapeutic effects of drugs on the body, which mainly reflect the trend that drugs affect the ups and downs of yin and yang and the changes of cold and heat in the human body.

(2) Five flavors: five different medicinal flavors: pungent, sweet, sour, bitter and salty. Five flavors have different yin and yang properties, pungent and sweet belong to yang, sour, bitter and salty belong to yin, and different flavors of drugs have different effects. Acid has the function of convergence and convergence; Bitter, it has the function of purging fire, drying dampness and purging; Sweet, with the function of nourishing, harmonizing or prioritizing; Xin, has the power of divergence and qi; Salty, it has the function of softening and resolving knots.

2. ups and downs refer to the different trends of drugs in the human body.

3. Meridian tropism refers to the selective action of drugs on a certain part of the body, which is based on the concept of drug action positioning of viscera and meridians.

Concept of traditional Chinese medicine

Traditional Chinese medicine refers to the drugs collected, processed and prepared under the guidance of traditional Chinese medical theory, which explain the mechanism of action and guide clinical application, and are collectively referred to as traditional Chinese medicine. In short, Chinese medicine is a substance with rehabilitation and health care functions, which is used to prevent, treat and diagnose diseases under the guidance of Chinese medicine theory.

Traditional Chinese medicine comes from natural medicines and their processed products, including plant medicines, animal medicines, mineral medicines and some chemicals and biological products. In clinic, plant medicine and animal medicine are more common, and the curative effect and toxic side effects of drugs will be very different. All kinds of drugs have certain characteristics and functions. In traditional Chinese medicine, the properties related to drug efficacy are collectively called medicinal properties, and the theories of medicinal properties include meridian tropism, compatibility, toxicity and non-toxicity, taboos and so on.