Traditional Chinese medicine concept

Traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) refers to a comprehensive science that focuses on the theory and practical experience of TCM and studies the transformation law of health and diseases in human life activities and their prevention, diagnosis, treatment, rehabilitation and health care.

1. The theoretical system of traditional Chinese medicine is based on the theory of Qi monism (essence): Yin-Yang and Five Elements, with thinking in images, systematic thinking and changeable thinking as the main modes of thinking, with Tibetan images, meridians, essence, qi, blood, body fluid and spirit as the theoretical core, with syndrome differentiation and treatment as the characteristics of diagnosis and treatment, including principle, method, prescription and medicine.

2. Basic concept of symptoms: Symptoms and signs are abnormal manifestations of the body, including abnormal feelings described by patients and various signs examined by doctors, and cannot be used as the basis for treatment.

3. Basic concept of syndrome: syndrome is a summary of the nature of pathogenesis at a certain stage in the disease process, such as etiology, disease location, disease nature and disease potential.

4. The basic concept of syndrome differentiation and treatment: syndrome differentiation (differentiation of the cause, location, nature and trend of diseases) is a thinking and practical process based on the theory of traditional Chinese medicine, which comprehensively analyzes the data obtained from four diagnostic methods (observation, hearing and questioning), clarifies the nature of diseases and establishes what kind of syndromes are.

Chinese medicine learning methods:

1. Endorsement: You need to recite the ups and downs of drugs, the role of meridian tropism, classics and the like.

2. Clinical practice: It is necessary to study and verify the theory and improve the theoretical understanding.

3. Summary: Always sum up your own experience, turn the knowledge in books into your own experience and form your own system.

4. Understanding: The key to learning Chinese medicine well lies in understanding, but the premise of understanding is to master the basic knowledge skillfully.

The origin of the theoretical system of traditional Chinese medicine

The theoretical system of traditional Chinese medicine was formed from the Warring States to the Qin and Han Dynasties, marked by the appearance of Huangdi Neijing. Huangdi Neijing includes 865,438+0 pieces of Su Wen and 865,438+0 pieces of Lingshu. The content is based on the theory of essence, yin and yang and the theory of five elements, and takes the holistic view as the leading thought to elaborate the regularity of life activities inside the human body and the unity between the human body and the external environment (nature).

The anatomy, viscera, meridians, physiology, pathology, diagnosis, prevention and treatment of diseases of human body are comprehensively and systematically expounded. The theoretical system of traditional Chinese medicine is constantly developing. In the Ming and Qing dynasties, as well as in modern times and modernity, the theoretical system of traditional Chinese medicine has made new development.