Taoist doctors are not qualified to practice medicine, and the state does not recognize that it is illegal to practice medicine with Taoist certificates.
The fundamental characteristics of the development of Taoist doctors are aiding Taoism and helping Taoism. It shows the Taoist medical tradition of homology, integration and complementarity of medicine and Taoism, and washes away the feelings of Taoist medicine in self-cultivation and benefiting the world and the people. There are many famous Taoist doctors in history, such as Zhang Daoling, Sun Simiao, Du Guangting and Zhang Boduan. There are many representative works, such as Yu Han Jing by Guang Cheng, Er Ya by Shi Yao, Han Yitong, Herbal Medicine of Haiyao, etc.
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The so-called homology of medicine and Taoism means that both traditional medicine and Taoism originated from the humanistic care of ancient primitive religions (that is, the conscious concern and care for human life, old age, illness, death and suffering). When it was, Fuxi painted hexagrams and created the Book of Changes. Huangdi's ancestor described Neijing and Shennong wrote Materia Medica, which initiated the study of "Three Graves" of the Chinese nation.
The study of "Three Graves" is not only the origin of Taoism in China, but also the origin of traditional medicine. At that time, Fuxi, Huangdi and Shennong were not only the leaders of the ancestral tribes of the Chinese nation, but also the leaders of the tribal religious teams. They teach the study of Three Graves with the ambition of "observing astronomy to observe time changes", the sadness of "observing human nature to transform the world" and great humanistic care.
Although words do not come directly from them, telepathy and dictation come from them. Among them, Materia Medica supplements the sky with the cultivation of viscera and qi and blood, Neijing directly pursues nature through internal meridians (tunnels), and Zhouyi takes "exhausting everything to unify life" as its philosophical purport, which shows the way to cultivate one's morality and realize life by law.