Sighs on the History of Chinese Medicine 20

Traditional Chinese medicine practitioners are reinventing the 4,000-year-old Chinese medicine industry** to enhance the image of traditional Chinese medicine. They strive to make TCM more suitable for the tastes of the new generation, who are accustomed to going to health and beauty salons that offer spas. Many young Chinese will seek Western medicine when they are sick, but still believe that eating some turtle plates, deer whips, centipedes, scorpions or seahorses can ** many diseases, and also believe that acupuncture and Chinese herbal medicine ** can also cure diseases.

But there is a problem with Chinese medicine, the taste is very bitter, and the smell is even more terrible.

Huang Zhaohe, the owner of a boutique, said she had used traditional Chinese medicine to succeed, but admitted that the process was arduous. She said, "Once when I saw what was in the medicine, I felt disgusted, but now I get used to it, there are some very strange things in the Chinese medicine." ”

Zhang Xiaoting, a student in Shanghai, began taking Chinese medicine as a teenager to regulate her period and eliminate acne. She was happy with the results, but the Chinese medicine was difficult to drink. "My mom boiled medicine at home at night. It's so bitter and hard to swallow, but the pimples are gone, and my ** is clean. ”

Traditional Chinese medicine is still prevalent in China because there is evidence that the traditional way is effective. Many poor families in remote areas rely on traditional Chinese medicine because they do not have the opportunity to receive Western medicine**. However, even wealthy modern Chinese prefer Western medicine with Chinese medicine as a whole**.

With the growth of the income of young urban white-collar workers, spa water** is everywhere in Beijing. Many shops offer traditional Chinese medicine maintenance**, which is said to be less than Western medicine.

Stroke patients often receive acupuncture as part of the process. In fact, acupuncture is also common in Western medicine. There are about 3,000 hospitals that provide TCM** and treat 100 million patients every year.

The entire TCM industry is worth £64 billion, and it is still growing at a rate of 20% every year.

The International Federation for the Modernization of Chinese Medicine, based in Hong Kong, advocates the making of modern preparations of Chinese medicine into granules. Patients simply add the granules to hot water instead of boiling the unpleasant smelling herbs for hours in the kitchen. Scientists are using new technology to standardize dosages and conduct more rigorous experiments to illustrate how herbs work.

The theory of Chinese medicine comes from a number of philosophical ideas, including the Taoist theory of yin and yang, which holds that the human body is interconnected and interacts with the external environment. Signs of physical disharmony can help TCM professionals understand,** and prevent diseases from occurring.

For example, the turtle plate can ** yin deficiency, promote body circulation, nourish blood, and earthworms and centipedes can reduce swelling. Scorpions are used for migraines and rheumatism. However, the use of endangered animal ingredients has damaged the image of traditional Chinese medicine.

A popular method is to use bear bile extracted from the spleen of bears, and some TCM practitioners are now advocating the use of alternatives, such as artificial tiger paws.

A visit to a TCM shop is still a good experience. Hundreds of wooden boxes leaning against the wall, containing dried or concocted Chinese herbs. The pharmacist dressed in white weighs the medicine in proportion, mixes it and places it in a cone-shaped paper package.

Buying a small bag of artificial tiger paws may not be as romantic, but it is a more sustainable recipe.

Traditional Chinese medicine is gradually formed through long-term experience accumulation, and experience accumulation is basically a process of repeated trial and error. The emperors took the pills, but in fact, the magicians tried and made mistakes with the emperors' bodies. In this sense, the deaths of the emperors still played a small role in improving the medical understanding of the ancients.

It was through their deaths that it was proved that "this way is not working", which made the alchemy gradually decline after the operation.

It is worth mentioning that although alchemy was a complete failure in medicine, the long-term alchemy activities promoted the development of ancient chemistry and produced many unexpected gains. For example, the world-famous gunpowder was invented and created by the alchemists of the Tang Dynasty. Alchemists made black gunpowder through observation and experiments on the mixed combustion of sulfur, saltpeter and charcoal.

The Tang Dynasty's "Lead, Mercury, Heptane Zhibao Collection" records the "Fu Huo Alum Method", which is the world's earliest experimental record for making gunpowder.

There is a great similarity between Chinese medicine and alchemy in the production process. Compared with traditional Chinese medicine, alchemy has a veil of mystery, and when the veil is lifted, we can find that alchemy and traditional Chinese medicine have many similarities, such as the selection of raw materials, the classification of raw materials, the processing equipment and technology of raw materials, and the shape of finished products (pills, powders, powders, potions, etc.), etc., which are mostly the same or similar. In addition, many alchemists' books record their experience of taking the elixir they refined, as well as its efficacy and poison***.

These theoretical and practical works of alchemy have promoted the study of the medicinal properties of various minerals and herbs, drug synthesis, etc., and also greatly promoted the development of traditional Chinese medicine.

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Since ancient times, there has been a saying in Chinese folk that "Shennong tastes a hundred herbs". According to archaeologists, the age of "Shennong tastes a hundred herbs" is probably the Neolithic Age, which shows that the Chinese people have a very long history of research on traditional Chinese medicine, and it is the earliest medical method used by human beings to overcome diseases.

Material 1 Traditional Chinese medicine has been used for thousands of years, which has proved that it is conclusive and effective in both disease treatment and disease prevention and health preservation. Since the end of the Qing Dynasty, China was invaded by Western powers and weakened its national fortunes, and with the entry of Western natural science and philosophy, the way of thinking and research methods of Western medicine posed a challenge to Chinese medicine. In modern history, Chinese medicine has been questioned more than once.

Some domestic scholars believe that traditional Chinese medicine has been unable to keep up with the development of advanced science and technology of the times, and traditional Chinese medicine has fallen into the debate of existence and abolition.

Material 2 China has a long history of using Chinese herbal medicine. Amway said it would establish a botanical research center in China, focusing on research and pilot planting of traditional Chinese herbal medicines, indicating that it is optimistic about the prospects of Chinese herbal medicine. In addition to Amway, world-renowned companies like Unilever are investing in Chinese herbal medicine research in China.

Material 3 Traditional Chinese medicine is a life science with Chinese characteristics, and it is a discipline ,...... that integrates science and humanities wellIn the past 100 years, the study of the West has spread to the East, coupled with the role of the value orientation of today's market economy, so that some Chinese medicine practitioners often take the lead in the diagnosis and treatment of diseases, and Chinese medicine is used as a foil, and even worse, they do not cut the pulse and do not dialectic, so they lose the guidance of Chinese medicine theory on diagnosis and treatment practice. In this regard, many people of insight in the field of Chinese medicine are quite worried and distressed.

There are many Chinese people who are destroying Chinese medicine and Chinese medicine. Japan and South Korea are researching Chinese medicine and Chinese medicine, and have obtained many patents.

In the course of fighting diseases for thousands of years, the Chinese working people have gradually accumulated a wealth of knowledge of medicine through practice and continuous understanding. Due to the lack of writing in the primeval period, this knowledge could only be dictated by teachers, and later there was writing, which was gradually recorded, and medical books appeared. These books serve to summarize the experience of predecessors and facilitate circulation and promotion.

Chinese medicine has a history of thousands of years, which is a summary of the rich experience of the Chinese people in fighting diseases for a long time, and has made great contributions to the prosperity of the Chinese nation. The earliest known work of Materia Medica is called Daiqiao's "Shennong's Materia Medica", and according to the place names recorded in it, it may be that the Eastern Han Dynasty physicians revised the works of their predecessors. - General Sense Medicine.

With a total of 24 million words, 34 volumes, and a total of 8,980 flavors of traditional Chinese medicine, "Chinese Materia Medica" is a monograph on herbal medicine with the largest variety of drugs collected so far, representing the highest and latest level of contemporary Chinese medicine research in China.

In 1999, the total number of traditional Chinese medicines reached more than 12,800 in the national census of traditional Chinese medicine resources.

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For example, Hua Tuo, the first recorded case of general anesthesia surgery.

Vaccinia, to inoculate vaccinia against smallpox.

For example, artemisin, which is now winning the Nobel Prize, is also based on the prescription of ancient Chinese medicine.

Li Shizhen's "Compendium of Materia Medica".

Sun Simiao's "Qianjin Fang", the Western Han Dynasty Mawangdui Han Tomb Silk Book "Medical Prescription Sutra".

Typhoid fever and miscellaneous diseases, Compendium of Materia Medica, Bian Que's hope and hearing.

This topic is too big, it's the history of ancient Chinese medicine. You can refer to the textbook "History of Chinese Medicine" edited by Zhen Zhiya and Fu Weikang, or the "History of Chinese Medicine" edited by Changcunku.

Zhang Zhongjing, Hua Tuo, and Li Shizhen's medical skills are still in use today.

The world's earliest surgeon Hua Tuo scraped bones to heal wounds, one head and two acupuncture.

3. The diagnosis method of traditional Chinese medicine.

The Compendium of Materia Medica has been translated into many languages.