These severe challenges faced by contemporary human health and the development of modern medicine have triggered a new understanding and in-depth examination of the status and role of traditional Chinese medicine in the contemporary era. Traditional Chinese medicine has a long history and rich accumulation of clinical practice. Its advantages lie in its holistic life science theory, the treatment method of syndrome differentiation and treatment, and the comprehensive conditioning and health care theory guided by "preventing diseases". These characteristics of traditional Chinese medicine make it play an irreplaceable role in exploring the frontier of contemporary life science, coping with the health challenges faced by contemporary complex diseases such as non-communicable chronic diseases, and realizing the adjustment and transformation of medical model, showing great vitality and vitality.
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The exploration and development of contemporary life science is closely related to Chinese medicine in many aspects, and people can get very profound enlightenment from Chinese medicine. For example, berberine, the effective component of coptis chinensis, is used as a probe to reveal a new pathway of blood lipid regulation in human body; Traditional Chinese medicine for warming kidney and supporting yang can promote the proliferation of stem cells. These examples show that Chinese medicine can make important contributions in frontier research fields of life sciences such as chemical biology and stem cell research. Many thoughts, theories and practices of traditional Chinese medicine are actually ahead of contemporary science, lasting for a long time and new. In recent years, Chinese medicine has made great achievements and progress in the treatment of leukemia, solid tumors, chronic liver and kidney diseases and other major and complex diseases, which has attracted great attention at home and abroad.
Not only that, Chinese medicine also has very profound thinking and advanced thoughts on the purpose and mode of medicine. The core concept of China's traditional medicine —— "Committed to disease prevention" is completely consistent with the direction of medical purpose adjustment in the 2 1 century, which embodies the core value of medical purpose adjustment and medical model transformation. China's traditional medicine is based on the holistic view of life, and the theory of the integration of man and society and man and nature embodies a new medical model of "physiology-psychology-society-environment". This model has been tested by hundreds of millions of people for thousands of years. Obviously, the medicine of "preventing diseases" is a "healthy science".