Huangdi Neijing is the most important scientific achievement in ancient times, one of the most important scientific achievements in human history and a typical representative of natural scientific thought. As a macro-medicine, TCM has an unshakable position and role in life science.
Huangdi Neijing is an encyclopedia for ancient people in China to know the laws of life in heaven and earth. Focusing on expounding the laws of life and medical treatment, this paper comprehensively and systematically summarizes the laws of Yin and Yang about the movement of celestial bodies (cosmology) and the laws of five elements about the formation of everything on the ground (biological evolution), and applies the laws of Yin and Yang and five elements to the human body to realize various phenomena of human body structure and function, pathology and etiology. The legal person in Huangdi Neijing is in nature, governed by sex, and known from the outside. It contains the generalized similarity law of species similarity, whole and local similarity, macro and micro similarity, and human and universe similarity. The book is about 700,000 words, divided into nine volumes of Lingshu and nine volumes of Suwen, and there are eighteen volumes of * * *, which is a compilation. The book was written in the Han Dynasty at the latest, which is generally considered as the Warring States Period.
Huangdi Neijing is the most important scientific achievement in ancient times, one of the most important scientific achievements in human history and a typical representative of natural scientific thought. As a macro-medicine, TCM has an unshakable position and role in life science.
It's no exaggeration to praise Huangdi Neijing for its profoundness. Unfortunately, the author can only look up and it is difficult to overlook the whole picture. It is the crystallization of Qian Qian's wisdom for thousands of years before 2000! Here, we can only absorb its essence and show its important scientific thoughts and achievements.
However, let's review Leonardo da Vinci's words: the knowledge of ancient writers is beneficial as the starting point of research, but it can never be the final conclusion. The value of Huangdi Neijing is to guide us to think or find problems first, not to prove its glorious past.
From Huangdi Neijing, we can find how Chinese medicine was established as an ancient science. If there are scientific achievements, there must be scientific activities, and if there are scientific activities, there must be scientific ideas. Scientific activities are carried out under the guidance of scientific ideas, and finally scientific achievements are obtained. Some of them were transformed into applied technology and handed down, and the other part was preserved in Huangdi Neijing (hereinafter referred to as Neijing) in the form of theory-science. Treatise on Febrile Diseases and Acupuncture A-B Classic in Han Dynasty belong to this kind of technical works.