Traditional Chinese medicine is a subject that mainly studies the physiology, pathology, diagnosis, prevention and treatment of diseases. It has its own complete theoretical system. In the long historical development process, in the diagnosis and treatment of common and difficult diseases, rich theoretical knowledge and clinical experience of principles, methods, prescriptions and medicines have been effectively guiding clinical practice and playing an important role in disease prevention and human health care.
Traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) is a science that studies the diagnosis, prevention and treatment, health preservation and life essence of human physiology, pathology and diseases, and is an integral part of world medicine.
Science is a knowledge system about nature, society and thinking, a summary of social practice experience, which can be tested and developed in social practice, and a knowledge system that reflects the essence and laws of various phenomena in the real world by using categories, theorems, laws and other thinking forms. Medicine is a scientific system that studies the process of human life and its struggle against diseases, and belongs to the category of natural science.
Its task is: from the perspective of human integrity and its dialectical relationship with the external environment, through experimental research, on-the-spot investigation and clinical observation, constantly sum up experience and study the relationship between human life activities and the external environment; Study the occurrence, development and prevention of human diseases, as well as effective measures to improve health, prolong life and improve labor ability.
Traditional Chinese medicine has been developed through thousands of years of clinical application. It integrates the theoretical knowledge of principle, method, prescription and medicine, emphasizes clinical practice, and focuses on the research of human physiology, pathology, disease diagnosis and prevention, health care and rehabilitation, and has a clear knowledge system with medical scientific characteristics.
The main research object of medicine is the survival, reproduction and movement change of human life. Man is the product of social labor, and his survival cannot be separated from the natural environment and social environment. Therefore, it is a creature with natural and social attributes, which is different from other creatures.
When studying human life phenomena and disease changes, an obvious feature of traditional Chinese medicine is that it pays attention to the physical changes of viscera, qi and blood, and at the same time, it pays attention to people's social attributes. It combines some academic thoughts of humanities and social sciences in China with people's own thinking, consciousness, spirit and emotion, expounds a series of medical problems related to life and health diseases, and forms a unique medical theory and medical theoretical system of traditional Chinese medicine.
Traditional Chinese medicine is divided into basic medicine, clinical medicine and preventive medicine according to research contents, objects and methods.