? The research on the development of Chinese medicine culture can not be separated from "neutralization"

"Chinese medicine culture is the sum of material wealth and spiritual wealth created by Chinese medicine. The three cores of TCM culture are the concept, cognitive thinking mode and behavior mode of TCM. Mao Jialing, deputy director of the Chinese Medicine Culture Branch of the Chinese Medicine Association, made the above statement on the definition of Chinese medicine culture at the 15th National Symposium on Chinese Medicine Culture held recently.

At the meeting, experts put forward their own views on the core value of Chinese medicine culture and the study of Chinese medicine thinking, and agreed that the core value of Chinese medicine culture and its thinking mode cannot be separated from "neutralization".

Neutralization is the core of Chinese medicine culture.

The core value system of TCM culture lies in constructing a neutral living environment. The living environment here includes the internal environment (including physiology and psychology) and the external environment (including natural ecological and social environment) of the human body. The two are interrelated. Only the concept of harmony between yin and yang in Chinese medicine culture can be seen. First of all, Chinese medicine believes that Yin and Yang are the material elements of life, and the origin of all life comes from the harmony of Yin and Yang. Human life is rooted in the fertilized egg formed by the harmony of yin and yang, and then the embryo is formed. Secondly, in the process of life growth, the harmony of Yin and Yang is "average". The best life state of Yin Pingyang Secret lies in the relative balance maintained by the mutual adjustment of Yin and Yang. If there is an imbalance between yin and yang, it will appear, as Su Wen's theory of yin and yang said, it should be like this: "Yin flourishes while Yang flourishes and Yin declines; Yang heat, yin cold; Yin deficiency is hot, and Yang deficiency is cold; Heavy cold is hot, and heavy heat is cold. Third, the means of preventing and treating diseases in traditional Chinese medicine is to reconcile yin and yang. Fourth, the principle of Chinese medicine is neutralization.

Traditional Chinese medicine values of "harmony is precious"

Traditional Chinese medicine has absorbed the thought of "neutralization" in China's philosophy, and "neutralization" is the standard for evaluating things, that is, the value scale; Harmony is the choice tendency of ideal, attitude and behavior, that is, value orientation; "Adjustment" is a way to realize value. For example, Chinese medicine generally does not say "cure diseases", but regulates the body, that is, regulates the "yin and yang" of imbalance in the body; "Ping" is the result to be achieved, that is, the value goal, and the result after conditioning is the balance of Yin and Yang. The five elements model of Qi, Yin and Yang in TCM is a thinking tool created to achieve "neutralization". The existence and development of everything in heaven and earth is a process of movement and change in which yin and yang tend to be balanced.

Traditional Chinese medicine describes the physiological and pathological process of the body with the balanced relationship between yin and yang. "Yin and Yang are the way of heaven and earth, the discipline of everything, the change of parents, the source of life and death, and the home of the gods." Therefore, the diagnosis and treatment of diseases in TCM take Yin and Yang as the general program, "Yin and Yang are heavy, Yang is dense ... so harmony is called holiness". On the whole, syndrome differentiation is to seek "harmony" in the dynamic, and to achieve the realm of "Yin and Yang as the secret and God as the rule".

The diagnosis and treatment of traditional Chinese medicine needs to "carefully observe yin and yang and adjust them in peacetime" (Su Wen Zhi Zhen Da Lun), and the method is to "remove the reality and take the balance". In the preface to Feng Mi Lu, Feng described that the sum of heaven and earth is the sum of heart, shape and qi, and then reached the corresponding longevity realm of heaven and earth. In the Qing Dynasty, Lei Feng suggested that doctors should "learn from the strengths of the past and the present, and make medicine self-balanced".

Harmony is the purpose of treating diseases.

"disharmony" is the basic pathogenesis of human diseases, so "harmony leads to harmony" is the starting point and final destination of TCM therapeutics. As Su Wen Nu Tian said, "So, peace is sacred. There are many treatments in TCM, but the fundamental method is to adjust the disharmony between Yin and Yang, correct the ups and downs of Yin and Yang, restore the dynamic relative balance of Yin and Yang, and change the pathological state of viscera from "disorder" to "self-harmony", so as to achieve the purpose of treating diseases, as Gao Qing Sejong wrote.

In harmony, harmony is the means and neutralization is the purpose. "Adjustment" is to treat the etiology and pathology of imbalance with drugs or non-drugs, so as to achieve a "harmonious" state from imbalance to dynamic balance. "Moderate" is a standard of curative effect, and it can only be called harmony if it is dynamic. In terms of treatment, all the treatments in TCM can be summed up as "harmony". In prescription medication, the idea of "neutralization" is its fundamental guiding ideology.

Traditional Chinese Medicine Thinking Method of "Neutralization"

Neutralization thinking is not only the most distinctive traditional cultural phenomenon of the Chinese nation, but also the concentrated expression of the Chinese world outlook and values. The idea of "neutralization" and "neutralization" runs through the whole process of the construction and development of traditional Chinese medicine. 」

Neutralization thinking refers to observing, analyzing, studying and dealing with problems, paying attention to the harmonious, coordinated and balanced state of various contradictions in the development process of things, so as to abide by the doctrine of the mean, be impartial and achieve without mistakes. When dealing with contradictions or treating diseases, he is good at grasping both ends, using the middle and taking compromise as the criterion. "Neutralization" has the connotation of complete unity of time and space, quality and quantity, and expresses the ideal state of the existence and movement of the system in time and space, quality and quantity. Such as "harmony between man and nature", "dynamic balance of yin and yang and five elements", "disharmony" in pathogenesis, "harmony" in therapy and "benevolence and righteousness" in ethics.