Definition of traditional Chinese medicine

The definition of TCM is developed according to the definition of medicine. "Drug Administration Law of People's Republic of China (PRC)" defines drugs as substances used for preventing, treating and diagnosing human diseases, purposefully regulating human physiological functions, and specifying indications or functional indications, usage and dosage. Including Chinese herbal medicines, Chinese herbal pieces, Chinese patent medicines, chemical raw materials and their preparations, antibiotics, biochemical drugs, radioactive drugs, serum, vaccines, blood products and diagnostic drugs. Chinese medicine is one of the main treatment methods of Chinese medicine, so it must be a substance to prevent, treat and diagnose "human" diseases under the guidance of Chinese medicine theory. Prevention and treatment are well understood, and the role of diagnosis in traditional Chinese medicine is not obvious. Usually, some TCM doctors judge human diseases as an auxiliary means, which is a supplement to "seeing, listening and asking" of TCM. For example, cupping is a treatment method of traditional Chinese medicine. If mugwort leaves are smoked during cupping, according to cupping,

Skin color, reaction, etc. To judge diseases in the human body. This is one of the diagnostic methods of traditional Chinese medicine.