Traditional Chinese medicine is a characteristic of China medicine and an important part of Chinese excellent culture. It has made indelible contributions to the prosperity of the Chinese nation for thousands of years and has had a positive impact on the progress of world civilization. In the new stage of socialist modernization, we should give full play to the characteristics of traditional Chinese medicine and better serve people's health.
First, the characteristics and advantages of Chinese medicine
China's traditional medicine has been enduring for thousands of years because it plays an irreplaceable role in medical care and is in a leading position in the field of traditional medicine in the world, which is determined by the scientific nature and advantages of its own theory. With the change of disease spectrum, the arrival of aging society and the change of health concept, the advantages of traditional Chinese medicine are becoming more and more obvious, and its scientific and advanced nature has been paid more and more attention by academia and industry. It is extremely important to further understand these characteristics and advantages and give full play to them in practice.
1, Chinese medicine's understanding of life activities provides an effective way for human beings to understand and grasp the complex system of human body. According to the overall concept of TCM, the life activities of human body are a dynamic relative balance process maintained by the interaction of various factors under the influence of internal and external environment. And health is a state of relative balance between yin and yang in human body, that is, "yin and yang are secret". Imbalance will lead to organic and functional disease states. Traditional Chinese medicine does not treat people's "diseases" mechanically in isolation, but regards "patients" as a whole and "diseases" as an unbalanced state under the influence of certain internal and external factors in a certain period of time. In treatment, we should not only be afraid of evil, but also strengthen the body, emphasize the role of healthy qi, and achieve the purpose of treating diseases by adjusting the functional state of the body. This concept of health has been widely accepted by people.
2. The cognitive methods and individualized diagnosis and treatment system of Chinese medicine to study the law of human life activities reflect the characteristics of holistic medicine. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that the relationship between man and nature is "the unity of man and nature", and the human body itself is the unity of form and spirit: the functional state of the human body is the comprehensive response of the body to the internal and external environment, and mastering the functional state of the human body can effectively grasp the changing law of human life activities. Therefore, by "seeing, listening and asking", TCM induces symptoms from the outside to the inside as the basis of clinical diagnosis and treatment, forming an individualized diagnosis and treatment system of TCM due to people, things and places. This is a major feature and advantage of traditional Chinese medicine, which accords with the development trend of modern clinical medicine.
3. The rich treatment methods and flexible methods of TCM are in line with the characteristics of human physiological and pathological diversity. Traditional Chinese medicine mainly adopts drug therapy and non-drug therapy to treat diseases, and adopts internal treatment and external treatment for comprehensive adjustment and treatment. Traditional Chinese medicine prescription is one of the most commonly used drug therapies in traditional Chinese medicine. The effective components of the prescription adapt to the characteristics of human diversity and pathological complexity through multi-link, multi-level and multi-target integration and adjustment. Non-drug therapy is mainly acupuncture and massage, among which acupuncture therapy is a great invention and pioneering work in ancient China. By stimulating the acupuncture points on the human body surface, it can be adjusted as a whole, with remarkable curative effect and wide application range. At present, acupuncture has been used in more than 100 countries in the world. The health preserving theory and colorful and effective methods of "the unity of nature and man, the unity of form and spirit, and the combination of motion and static" in traditional Chinese medicine show good prospects in improving people's health quality and quality of life.
4. The vast classic medical books of traditional Chinese medicine are a huge treasure house of human biological information. There are more than 8,000 classic medical books of traditional Chinese medicine, which record the theoretical and practical experience of traditional Chinese medicine for thousands of years. This is a unique and undeveloped treasure house of human biological information.
5. Traditional Chinese medicine fully embodies the organic combination of natural science and social science, and shows the new trend of modern science integration. The theoretical system of TCM and clinical thinking mode contain rich China culture, which embodies the high integration and unity of natural science, social science and humanities. This traditional Chinese medicine method, which takes functional state as the breakthrough point and analyzes and grasps its changing law with the help of philosophy, social science and humanities, is a leap in human history, providing a unique way of thinking for human beings to know themselves and conforming to the new trend of modern scientific integration.
2. Chinese medicine plays an important role in safeguarding people's health.
Traditional Chinese medicine is an important part of health undertakings. It supplements modern medicine with its good clinical efficacy and ability to prevent and treat diseases, and is used to protect people's health.
1, medical care is included in the urban medical security system. For a long time, 70% of urban residents are willing to receive traditional Chinese medicine or integrated traditional Chinese and western medicine treatment. All provinces and cities in China have basically established well-equipped Chinese medicine medical institutions. In the reform of medical and health system, Chinese medical services have been included in the basic medical insurance. In the community health service, Chinese medicine service has become a service mode which is suitable for China's national conditions and has service characteristics.
2. Traditional Chinese medicine plays an important role in rural health work. Traditional Chinese medicine has the outstanding advantages of wide indications, low medical expenses and easy popularization and application, and has a deep mass base in rural areas. At present, it has been widely used in the three-level health care service network formed by county hospitals, township hospitals and village clinics, and the promotion of appropriate technologies of traditional Chinese medicine has achieved remarkable results, which has played an important role in realizing the goal of "health care for all" in primary health care services. In rural areas, Chinese medicine undertakes nearly one-third of outpatient services and nearly one-quarter of hospitalization services. In1130,000 rural doctors, more than 50% doctors use traditional Chinese and western medicine to prevent and treat diseases. Tibetan, Mongolian, Uygur, Dai and other ethnic medicines also play their respective roles in rural life services.
3. Chinese medicine plays an advantage in some therapeutic fields. Traditional Chinese medicine has certain advantages and characteristics in orthopedics, anorectal, dermatology, gynecology and other disciplines, and is well received by the masses in the treatment of some chronic non-communicable diseases, major incurable diseases and some common and frequently-occurring diseases. Traditional Chinese medicine, including acupuncture, massage, integrated traditional Chinese and western medicine and other special therapies, has also attracted more and more attention and acceptance from people all over the world.
4. Give full play to the role of traditional Chinese medicine in prevention and health care. Traditional Chinese medicine has a systematic theory and many effective methods in health care and longevity. According to the theory of homology of medicine and food, a variety of functional foods with anti-aging, immunomodulation and anti-fatigue can be developed. It has broad market prospects.
Traditional Chinese medicine resources are the material basis for China's unique development and utilization advantages and the development of strategic industries. Chinese herbal medicine is not only a medicine resource for TCM treatment, but also an important raw material for chemicals, international botanicals and food industry. Through the rational development and utilization of traditional Chinese medicine resources, it can play an active role in the adjustment of agricultural structure and promote the development of agricultural science and technology, and at the same time promote the development of transportation, warehousing, catering and other related industrial groups.