The cause of Chinese medicine is a major event related to the national economy and people's livelihood. The debate on Chinese medicine has never stopped in the past hundred years. Basic theory of traditional Chinese medicine? Yin-yang and five elements are pseudoscience? And? Should Chinese medicine be withdrawn from the current medical system? After the controversy was initiated, it caused an uproar. In the eyes of the general public, science is synonymous with correctness and effectiveness. Some people say that the basic theory of traditional Chinese medicine? The view that Yin-Yang and Five Elements are pseudoscience naturally aroused strong opposition from supporters of traditional Chinese medicine, but what is the relationship between traditional Chinese medicine and science? What is the relationship between the characteristics of science and the basis of TCM theory? What kind of influence does the foundation of TCM theory have on the development of TCM?
The basic theories of traditional Chinese medicine mainly include the theories of yin and yang, five elements, luck, dirty images, meridians and so on, as well as the contents of etiology, pathogenesis, diagnosis, syndrome differentiation, treatment, prevention and health preservation. Yin and Yang belong to the ancient philosophy of China. Traditional Chinese medicine uses the concept of the unity of opposites of Yin and Yang to explain the complex relationship between the upper and lower parts of the human body, inside and outside, and between human life activities and the external environment such as nature and society. The relative balance of the unity of opposites of Yin and Yang is the basis for maintaining and ensuring the normal activities of the human body. If the balance is unbalanced and destroyed, it will lead to the occurrence and development of human diseases and affect the normal activities of life. The theory of five elements generalizes the attributes of different things in the objective world with five philosophical categories, such as wood, fire, earth, gold and water, and illustrates the mutual connection and transformation law of things with the dynamic model of five elements. Traditional Chinese medicine mainly uses the theory of five elements to explain the functional relationship between the five zang-fu organs and the mechanism of disease occurrence and development when the zang-fu organs are unbalanced, and also to guide the treatment of zang-fu organs diseases. It can be seen that the foundation of traditional Chinese medicine belongs to the philosophical category, and its foundation is yin and yang and five elements.
The reason why Yin-Yang and Five Elements are just philosophy, not science, is that they don't abide by it? Objective, logical, empirical and repeatable test? Such as scientific methods and rules, do not have scientific theory? Exclusivity? And? Falsifiability? In the face of such a very objective thing as human diseases, can't we draw a conclusion based on the theory of Yin-Yang and Five Elements? Exclusivity? What is imbalance, what is excess, what is discord, and what is reality? There is no quantifiable standard. Treating the same patient, Dr. Wang said that the spleen and stomach are not harmonious, but Dr. Li said it very well. Both of them are based on the same yin and yang and five elements, but who is right and who is wrong can't agree.
in recent years, the state has vigorously supported the development of Chinese medicine and traditional Chinese medicine. Chinese medicine is a complete medical system, and its theoretical system is broad and complex. It has its own cognitive methods. Of course, it cannot be categorically denied simply because the theory of Chinese medicine is not scientific. Whether the theory of Chinese medicine is correct and reliable depends on whether it has been tested by practice. It can be imagined that if the theory of traditional Chinese medicine incompatible with science is used to understand and guide the diagnosis and treatment of diseases, and a reliable positive conclusion is obtained, it is certainly an affirmation of the theory of traditional Chinese medicine, and it is also a supplement and revision of science. How to test the effectiveness of the theory of traditional Chinese medicine has become a key issue.
for thousands of years, Chinese medicine has been derived from the long history of China, and it has not been eliminated by history. Before western medicine was introduced into China, it was always Chinese medicine that treated patients and saved lives in China. Traditional Chinese medicine is not omnipotent, and its effectiveness and scientificity cannot be denied just because it is not a panacea. The inheritance of traditional Chinese medicine needs both inheritance and innovation. The theory of traditional Chinese medicine recorded in ancient books is not completely correct, and it needs to be explored in clinical practice. Through the continuous efforts of doctors from generation to generation, it is constantly revised and improved. Although there are twists and turns in the development of traditional Chinese medicine, we believe that traditional Chinese medicine can still ride the wind and waves in the long river of history and inherit, develop and carry forward from generation to generation.