Development of traditional Chinese medicine should be centered on health

Time: 2016-07-29

Source: China's traditional Chinese medicine

Author: Zhou Manyi

In the 4th QiHuang BBS social celebrities on the BBS, the participating experts around at this stage of the development of the new situation, the new situation, the core problem in the development of Chinese medicine on exchange discussion. During the meeting, the Chinese academy of social sciences researcher Chen Jiguang pointed out that the development direction of the future medicine will to safeguard human health of body and mind as the center, traditional Chinese medicine has a low cost, personalization, universal and the characteristics of sustainability, to the future development direction should be centered on disease to health as the center.

The world health organization (WHO) in 1996 entitled "to meet the challenges of the 21st century" in the report pointed out that in the 21st century medicine will be from "disease medicine" to the "health and medical development, from the group treatment to the individual development. Chen Jiguang, based on the characteristics of China, points out that we should establish a unique Chinese characteristics, mature technology, curative effect obviously and costs and relatively cheap health care model.

Is, of course, discuss the traditional Chinese medicine in disease as the center or health as the center, not in TCM prevention and cure the dual responsibilities at the same time. Chen Jiguang pointed out that in the development of traditional Chinese medicine or to distinguish between the focus, clear different focus determines the different benefit distribution system, mechanism and structure. Switch to healthy development emphasis of traditional Chinese medicine, it is to follow the time development request. Chen Jiguang said, on the one hand, from the scientific innovation, the pursuit of traditional Chinese medicine of traditional Chinese medicine to explore new principles, new methods to conquer the disease; In recent years, on the other hand, the public health consciousness enhancement, self health care demand, if cannot be centered on the health of Chinese medicine, the basic content and services provided to you, you will find, that is why some Chinese medicine keeping in good health method is very popular in recent years a direct cause.

"Health care neither is a bottomless pit, and can not be counterfeit detector, which requires us to explore health centered development pattern of traditional Chinese medicine." Chen Jiguang said the health care community be the main demand of medical service, health care system is the main external influence development direction and the way of traditional Chinese medicine.

"Focus on the traditional Chinese medicine and the transition of the medical center, not only should be concerned about the power, the more important is to should be concerned about resistance, resistance is the realization of a shift in the center of the key factors." Change the medical center, he notes, is bound to pay a heavy price, if our pharmaceutical, including academia and industry, from the disease as the center to health as the center, the employment structure should be adjusted, personnel structure should be adjusted, the whole industry pattern and benefit distribution pattern should have adjustment, this is one of the largest resistance in the shift, under the existing pattern of interests existing adjustment will to a certain extent, hampered the shift.

In the process of transfer of traditional Chinese medicine and medical center, in addition to focus on policy and industrial power, Chen Jiguang that cultural and science engineering should also be taken into account. Conference, President of liaoning university of Chinese medicine guan-lin Yang, history of national religious affairs religious culture publishing house editor friend Zhang Xiaode, director of the research center, national school of administration ecology civilization, economic experts Guo Xia, anhui university of traditional Chinese medicine professor Gu Zhi mountain famous experts from the social from all walks of life also in culture and science and innovation of traditional Chinese medicine of traditional Chinese medicine and other aspects put forward opinions and Suggestions.