What are the advantages of Chinese medicine?

China's advantages of Chinese medicine features

Chinese medicine is the characteristics of China's medical science, but also an important part of the Chinese nation's excellent culture, thousands of years for the Chinese nation's prosperity and prosperity made indelible contributions, and the world's civilization and progress has had a positive impact. In the new stage of socialist modernization, we should further give full play to the characteristics of traditional Chinese medicine to better serve the people's health.

I. Characteristics and Advantages of Traditional Chinese Medicine

The reason why China's traditional medicine has endured for thousands of years and has not deteriorated, and has so far played an irreplaceable role in health care and is in a leading position in the field of traditional medicine in the world is that it is determined by the scientificity and advantages of its own theories. With the changes in the spectrum of diseases, the arrival of an aging society and the transformation of health concepts, the advantages of TCM have become more and more apparent, and its scientificity and advancement are more and more valued by the academic and industrial communities. It is extremely important to further recognize these features and advantages and to bring them into play in practice.

1, Chinese medicine to the understanding of life activities, provides an effective way for human beings to understand and grasp the complex system of the human body. Chinese medicine holistic concept that the human life activity is the body in the internal and external environment, by a variety of factors interacting with the maintenance of a dynamic process of relative balance. Health is a state in which the body's yin and yang are in relative balance, i.e., "yin and yang are in secret". An imbalance in the balance will lead to organic and functional disease states. Chinese medicine is not a mechanical isolated view of people suffering from "disease", but the "patient" as a whole, the "disease" as the human body in a certain internal and external factors, in a certain time imbalance. Instead, the "patient" is viewed as a whole, and the "disease" as the imbalance of the human body under the action of certain internal and external factors at certain time. In terms of treatment, it is necessary to both suppress the evil and support the positive, emphasizing the role of the body's positive qi, and adjusting the body's functional state to achieve the purpose of treating the disease. This concept of health is now generally accepted.

2. The cognitive approach of Chinese medicine to study the laws of human life activities and its individualized diagnosis and treatment system reflect the characteristics of holistic medicine. Chinese medicine believes that man and nature is "heaven and man" relationship, the human body itself is the unity of the whole: the human body's functional state is the body's role in the internal and external environment of the integrated response, mastery of the human body's functional state can effectively grasp the changing pattern of human life activities. Therefore, Chinese medicine through the "looking, sniffing, questioning and cutting" outside the measurement of the internal summarized as evidence, as the basis for clinical diagnosis and treatment, constituting the individualized diagnosis and treatment system of traditional Chinese medicine according to the person, according to the matter, according to the place. This is a major feature and advantage of Chinese medicine, in line with the trend of modern clinical medicine.

3. The rich therapeutic means and flexible methods of Chinese medicine are in line with the diversity of human physiology and pathology. The treatment of diseases by Chinese medicine mainly adopts drug and non-drug therapies, and carries out overall comprehensive regulation and treatment with internal and external therapies. Chinese medicine prescription is one of the most commonly used drug therapies in Chinese medicine. The multiple effective components of the prescription, targeting the multiple factors of the human body, are adapted to the diversity of the human body and the complexity of the lesions through the integration and regulation of multiple links, levels and targets. Non-pharmacological therapies are mainly based on acupuncture and tuina, of which acupuncture therapy is a great invention and creation in ancient China, through the stimulation of body surface points for overall regulation, with remarkable therapeutic efficacy and wide range of application. At present, acupuncture has been used in more than 100 countries in the world. Chinese medicine, "the unity of man and heaven, the unity of form and spirit, the combination of static and dynamic" as the main health care theory and colorful, effective methods to improve people's health quality and quality of life shows a good prospect.

4, Chinese medicine is a huge treasure trove of biological information. Chinese medicine existing classical medical books more than 8,000, recorded thousands of years of theory and practical experience in Chinese medicine. This is the only treasure trove of human biological information that has not yet been fully exploited.

5, Chinese medicine fully embodies the organic combination of natural and social sciences, showing the new trend of modern scientific integration. The theoretical system and clinical thinking mode of Chinese medicine has rich Chinese cultural heritage, reflecting a high degree of integration and unity of natural science with social science and humanities. Chinese medicine this functional state as the entry point, and in the macro-philosophy, social sciences, humanities to analyze, grasp the law of change method, in human history is a kind of leap, for mankind to understand their own unique mode of thinking, in line with the integration of modern science new trend.

Second, Chinese medicine plays an important role in safeguarding people's health

Chinese medicine is an important part of health care, with its good clinical efficacy and the ability to prevent and treat diseases in modern medicine to complement each other, *** with the protection of people's health services.

1, medical care into the urban medical insurance system. For a long time, 70% of urban residents are willing to accept Chinese medicine or Chinese and Western medicine combined treatment. The country's provinces, municipalities and administrative regions, basically have set up facilities to pick and choose the more perfect Chinese medicine medical institutions. In the reform of the medical and health care system, Chinese medicine medical services have been incorporated into basic medical insurance. In the community health service, Chinese medicine service has become suitable for China's national conditions and service characteristics of the service method.

2. Chinese medicine plays an important role in rural health care. Chinese medicine, with its outstanding advantages of wide range of indications, low medical costs, and ease of popularization and application, has a deep mass base in the countryside. At present, it is widely used in the three-tier health care service network formed by county hospitals, township health centers and village health centers, and the promotion of appropriate technologies in Chinese medicine has achieved obvious results, playing an important role in realizing the primary health care service goal of "health care for all". In rural areas, TCM practitioners are responsible for nearly one-third of outpatient services and nearly one-quarter of inpatient services. More than 50 per cent of the 1.13 million rural doctors utilize both Chinese and Western medicine to prevent and treat diseases. Tibetan, Mongolian, Viennese, Dai and other ethnic medicines also play their respective roles in rural life-saving services.

3, Chinese medicine in certain therapeutic areas to play an advantage. Chinese medicine in Chinese orthopedics, anorectal, dermatology, gynecology and other disciplines, in some chronic non-communicable diseases, major intractable diseases and some common diseases, the treatment of diseases with certain advantages and characteristics, popular with the masses. Traditional Chinese medicine, including acupuncture, tuina, Chinese and Western medicine and other specialty therapies, are also increasingly being noticed and accepted by people around the world.

4, give full play to the role of Chinese medicine in preventive health care. Chinese medicine in health care and longevity has a systematic theory and a variety of effective methods, which, according to the theory of "medicine and food", can be developed to slow down the aging process, regulate immunity, anti-fatigue and other functional foods. There is a broad market prospect.

Chinese medicine resources, China has a unique advantage in the development and utilization and the development of strategic industries in the material base. Chinese herbal medicine is both the Chinese medicine treatment of drug resources, but also chemicals, international botanical drugs, food industry and other important raw materials. Through the rational development and utilization of traditional Chinese medicine resources, can play a positive role in the adjustment of agricultural structure, promote the development of agricultural science and technology, and at the same time can lead to the development of medicinal material processing industry transportation, storage, catering and other related industry groups.