Since ancient times, there has been a saying that "medicine and Taoism are interlinked". This influence can be traced back to Huang's classic Huangdi Neijing, which is the four classic works of traditional medicine in China and the earliest medical classic in China. At the same time, it is a medical masterpiece studying human physiology, pathology, diagnostics, therapeutic principles and pharmacology. Theoretically, the theories of yin and yang, five elements, pulse condition, Tibetan image, meridians, etiology and pathogenesis, disease, diagnosis, treatment, health preservation and luck are established. Later, on the basis of pre-Qin Taoist thought, TCM began to explain the human body with Yin-Yang and Five Elements. Zhang Zhongjing, a famous physician, appeared in the Eastern Han Dynasty. He has long understood the "eight cardinal principles" (yin and yang, exterior and interior, deficiency and excess, cold and heat) and summed up the "eight methods". Hua Tuo is famous for his mastery of surgery and anesthesia, and he also founded the "Five Birds Play" of fitness gymnastics. In the Tang Dynasty, Sun Simiao summarized the theories and experiences of his predecessors and collected more than 5,000 prescriptions for treatment based on syndrome differentiation. Because of his highest medical ethics, he was honored as the "King of Medicine". After the Tang Dynasty, China's medical theory and works were widely spread to Korea, Japan, Central Asia and West Asia. During the Song Dynasty, the government of the Song Dynasty established Hanlin Medical College, and the medical discipline was almost complete, which unified the disorder of acupoints caused by copying in China and published the illustrated classics. Since the Jin and Yuan Dynasties, Chinese medicine began to decline.
After the Ming and Qing Dynasties, the school of febrile diseases appeared, which gradually replaced the school of classical Chinese medicine. Li Shizhen's Compendium of Materia Medica, written at the end of Ming Dynasty, marked the decline of TCM pharmacology. At the same time, both Mongolian medicine and Tibetan medicine are influenced by Chinese medicine. In North Korea, oriental medicine has also made great progress. For example, the Treasure of Oriental Medicine written by Xu Jun.
Since the late Qing Dynasty, China has been invaded by western powers, and its national fortune has been weakened. At the same time, the influx of modern medicine (western medicine) has seriously impacted the development of Chinese medicine. Many people in China advocate medical modernization, and traditional Chinese medicine has been greatly challenged. People began to make
Looking at it in the way of thinking of the western medical system, Chinese medicine is caught in the dispute of keeping or abolishing. The same is true of Japanese traditional Chinese medicine and Korean medicine, both of which belong to China's medical system. Since SARS in 2003, classical Chinese medicine began to show signs of recovery.
During the Cultural Revolution, Chinese medicine, as a medical paradigm of "serving the present with the past", was supported and developed by China's production party policy. Modern Chinese medicine is still one of the commonly used methods to treat diseases in China.
Internationally, acupuncture has aroused great interest in the medical field. Acupuncture has been proved to be effective in relieving postoperative pain, nausea during pregnancy, nausea and vomiting caused by chemotherapy, toothache and so on, and the side effects are extremely low. However, the data on chronic pain, back pain and headache are vague or controversial. WHO believes that the effectiveness of many acupuncture and some herbs has been strongly supported by scientific double-blind research, but other traditional therapies need further research, and the safety and danger of traditional therapies that have not yet been studied cannot be ignored. On May 26th, 2002, WHO published the "Global Traditional Medicine Research Strategy for 2002-2005", inviting more than 80 countries around the world to incorporate alternative medicine into their medical policies.
The original innovation and revolution of the basic theory of modern Chinese medicine began in the 1990s. New Philosophy of Traditional Chinese Medicine Three major philosophies of traditional Chinese medicine: holistic view and dialectical view, and the third newly excavated philosophy of traditional Chinese medicine: similarity view-fractal theory.
During the period of 1996, the academic circles had a new creative understanding and interpretation of the essence of qi, the essence of meridians, the five elements of yin and yang, the Tibetan image and the philosophy of traditional Chinese medicine. As Deng Yu discovered, Qi is the unity of "information-energy-matter"; Anatomical structure of meridians with fractal dimension; Mathematical yin and yang; TCM fractal set: fractal Yin-Yang set-Yin-Yang set fractal dimension, five-line fractal set-five-line fractal dimension; Five systems of fractal Tibetan image-heart system, liver system, spleen system, lung system and kidney system; Three philosophies of traditional Chinese medicine-the newly proposed third philosophy: similarity-fractal theory, etc. It also includes the development history of modern acupuncture meridians, the brief history of modern Chinese medicine, the history of integrated traditional Chinese and western medicine, and the history of traditional Chinese medicine.