The history of Chinese medicine begins about the second century BC because there are no clear records of medical techniques that are older that. There exist written descriptions about disease from the Shang Dynasty era (1600-1046 BC), but there isn’t a record of their medical techniques.
The first clear medical treatise is the Yellow Emperor's Inner Canon. In the text, the use of moxibustion or acupuncture to manipulate the Yin and Yang are described in ways similar to that practiced nowadays. This and later texts covered a variety of techniques based on traditional physical concepts, but now traditional medicine has a secondary role in China compared to Western medicine.
Over the past hundred years, with the spread of Western medicine, widely used in China formation of TCM(Traditional Chinese Medicine), western medicine, the coexistence of combining traditional Chinese and Western medicine. Some doctors gradually realized that the traditional Chinese medicine and Western medicine so trying to two each one has his good points, academic to Huitong, gradually formed a fusion of Chinese and Western medicine school.
Foreign people on the evaluation of Chinese medicine and mysterious, and some countries refuse to believe that Chinese medicine unscientific.
In fact, most of them use western medicine to evaluate traditional Chinese Medicine.
Chinese medicine is very mysterious, in fact, because many people do not understand it.
The Yellow Emperor’s Inner Canon 黄帝内经 (Huángdì Nèijīng) has been the most influential treatise for more than 2,000 years. The multi-volume treatise presents views on the function of the human body and the physical world that remain the basic ideas believed by traditional medicine practitioners. Yin and Yang are described, and so are the Five Phases of nature (wood, fire, earth, metal, water) and Qi. It isn’t known how or where these ideas originated.
The Treatise on Cold Injuries 伤寒论 (Shānghán Lùn) and the Bencao Gangmu 本草纲目(Běncǎo Gāngmù) are two other essential books for traditional medicine practitioners. Both deal with drugs and herbs. The Treatise on Cold Injuries is ascribed to Zhang Zhongjing. It was published about the year 220 at the end of the Han Dynasty era (206 BC-220 AD). It is the first known treatise on drug and herbal medicine.
However, in today’s China, some techniques, especially herbal medicine, exercise such as taiqi or qigong, and eating medicinal food, remain common.
Traditional medicine is relatively inexpensive compared to going to a regular hospital, and the government supports traditional medicine to an extent. However, in many areas of China, procedures such as acupuncture,moxibustion, and cupping are seldom tried. People generally favor going to modern hospitals when they are sick.Because of a variety of instruments of Western medicine, Chinese medicine is a variety of electronic equipment can not. And some disease is suitable for surgical treatment.
Most people think, common disease, treatment can fast western medicine such as cold, common bacterial infections, with anti-inflammatory drugs and antibiotics.But the side effects than traditional Chinese Medicine . There are some special diseases without effective western medicine can be treated.Chinese medicine can cure these diseases.Through the analysis of traditional Chinese medicine combined with modern medicine, can get some answers.
In China's medical profession, there are traditional Chinese medicine and Western medicine, so in terms of medicine also has the difference between traditional Chinese medicine and Western Medicine
However, the vast majority of people do not know, what is the difference between traditional Chinese medicine and Western medicine?
Traditional Chinese medicine is mainly based on biological agents, including plants, animals, minerals, do not know what is the specific composition of the key role
Western medicine, both artificial, chemical synthesis, including organic chemicals, inorganic chemicals and biological products, has a clear chemical composition. This is the essential difference.
Therefore, the difficulty of traditional Chinese medicine research is how to analyze, determine the effective composition, and use modern medicine synthesis.
These are only in the study of traditional Chinese medicine, through scientific research can let more people understand Chinese Medicine.
However, traditional Chinese medicine more than these,More traditional Chinese medicine lies in the regulation of the human body.
China medical experts Tu Youyou, won the 2015 Nobel by the discovery of a new method of artemisinin for malaria.
Ancient Chinese texts inspired Tu Youyou's search for her Nobel-prize winning medicine.This is the highest award of Chinese Medicine.
With the application of artemisinin drugs, the mortality rate of malaria patients is significantly reduced, so that the lives of millions of people in developing countries, especially in developing countries, have been saved!
When she started her search for an anti-malarial drug, over 240,000 compounds around the world had already been tested, without any success.
Finally, the team found a brief reference to one substance, sweet wormwood, which had been used to treat malaria in China around 400 AD.
Ancient medical books have used it to treat malaria herbal medical records, just do not know the effective components of the "artemisinin" kills the parasites.This also shows that traditional Chinese medicine is not a mystery, and many medical technology, but also through scientific analysis and exploration.
The plant, which is common in southern China, is the origin of artemisinin for malaria treatment.
and it grown in Chongqing, Youyang, China, was found to contain the highest levels of artemisinin.
In Europe, in the most prudent use of medicine in Germany, traditional Chinese medicine has a large number of loyal fans.
In Germany, the Chinese medicine is a kind of noble enjoyment, the cost is 10 times higher than Western Medicine.
In Germany, traditional Chinese medicine in the face of the disease, often a chronic disease of Western medicine, such as psoriasis and other skin diseases, insomnia, arthritis and so on
Chinese medicine stresses both inside and outside the tune, coupled with the use of pure natural plant medicine, as long as the scientific guidance, even if long-term use, side effects are also very small, so many Germans are optimistic.
The Germans generally believe that Chinese herbal medicine in China for thousands of years, the vast majority should be safe . The German government has proposed to allow the use of Chinese herbal medicine, but in practice, the traditional Chinese medicine to track inspection, testing, once found serious side effects of herbal medicine, immediately banned.
At present, Germany's more than 70 thousand pharmacies, pharmacists must have a license to operate Chinese Medicine.
At present, there are about 3000 Chinese doctors in Germany, but qualified to prescribe Chinese medicine, but only a few hundred, many hospitals or clinics to be invited to see a Chinese doctor.
Due to a variety of regulatory system with international standards still need to run in, the road of internationalization of Chinese medicine seems to be very long
An industry source said that due to regulatory and international docking, the current Chinese medicine to enter the international market is very difficult.In China, because of the contribution of Chinese medicine, people have more choices to treat some illness. It makes a lot of foreigners envy.China is also trying to get Chinese medicine to the world.
3/14/2017 09:30:00 AM
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