To prevent chronic diseases in TCM

Time: 2016-09-13

Source: guangming daily

Author: Tian Yating

At present, our country is facing a huge risk of chronic disease. According to the world health organization (who) statistics show that more than 80% of patients die of chronic diseases in China. Experts predict, if not timely intervention, in the next ten years, our country to spurt in chronic disease outbreaks. Can reverse this, therefore, is related to the future of the Chinese nation.

Ariations in our country is undergoing changes

Ariations associated with an ageing population, our country has taken place great changes, various kinds of high incidence of chronic disease and the number of cases is rising. Recently, by the world health organization (who), state institutions such as health and family planning commission jointly issued a research report, according to the number of chronic diseases, nearly 300 million people, has become a national primary health threat. And these chronic diseases, more than sixty percent are caused by lifestyle.

At the same time, the national chronic disease prevention literacy status quo is not optimistic. National health and family planning commission, according to a survey of the residents in the basic health literacy is only 6.84%, and the chronic disease prevention literacy minimum, less than 5%. Therefore, a priority from the source to curb it.

Most chronic diseases can be prevented

Chronic diseases including cardiovascular disease, cancer, chronic respiratory disease, diabetes, etc. Scientific research has confirmed that most chronic diseases are preventable, if more people know the damage the improper way of life, and reasonable intervention, the situation can get great improvement.

China academy of traditional Chinese medicine xiyuan hospital cure not ill center director zhang pointed out that today's medical model is from a cure for the purpose, the pursuit of high-tech, lead to rising medical costs, such as prevention and health promotion to give priority to the direction of the shift. To this, traditional Chinese medicine. The state administration of traditional Chinese medicine slurry sampling, director of hong-xin cao said that for thousands of years, around the health maintenance, traditional Chinese medicine has formed from the keeping in good health, not cure disease early intervention, to the syndrome differentiation and treatment, such as supporting system as a whole theoretical system and rich cure the disease, methods and techniques, in the maintenance of healthy plays an irreplaceable important role.

Cure not ill advantage prominent

"The Chinese medicine is the treasure of the Chinese nation, has the unique superiority in preventing cure." According to the national physician master tenured professor, Beijing university of Chinese medicine wang, as early as two thousand years ago, a subject in the holy books huangdi neijing, the health prevention as the dominant idea, emphasize "cure not ill".

At the same time, the traditional Chinese medicine keeping in good health culture has a long history and has played an important role to safeguard people's health. British scholar Joseph Needham said, in the world culture, but the health of the Chinese is no other nation. Wang said, keeping in good health as early as in "chuang tzu" within, the so-called "life", is the meaning of life, survival and growth. The so-called "pet", is the maintenance, rehabilitation, nourished and care. The connotation of "health", one is to lengthen life time limit, the second is to improve the quality of life.

Executive career situation of Chinese medicine Chinese academy of social sciences research group leader Chen Jiguang believes that, in contrast, traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) is a product of traditional agricultural civilization more, to keep "heaven corresponding" "harmony between man and nature". And people itself is a closely related between the parts of "small universe", the problems mainly is the human body function, such as the imbalance of Yin and Yang. Therefore emphasis on keeping in good health, prevention is better than cure, emphasis on evidence-based medicine - focus on the overall adjustment, emphasize "thrift school" "supporting" - to protect and enhance the patient's own internal resistance function. Visible, for physical "vulnerable groups", more obvious advantages of Chinese medicine.

They intend intervention can get twice the result with half the effort

As time changes, the cure not ill has formed three more clear concept, namely "no disease prevention first", "Hyman" "the more defensive complex". Zhang said, can use "cure not ill five carriages, namely the dietotherapy medicinal food, exercise, psychological, drug and non-drug technique, makes the public doesn't get sick or less diseases, especially less serious illness.

Zhang stressed that did not cure disease categories, not just confined to food and not disease, can also be applied to more disease has occurred. Chinese have a saying called "see liver disease, liver and spleen, ohlendorf spleen, Ann is not evil first place", that is to say, even if the person has a disease, but has not been a visceral lesions, we will in the treatment of diseases at the same time, to protect the first may soon affected organs.

In addition, wang, solve the problem of good health of the Chinese people, must be in Chinese way, and Chinese style method without heal disease, cure not ill is inseparable from the constitution of identification. Wang explained that the cure not ill need to find the effective ways and means, and physical identification is its "gripper", to cure not ill provides methods, tools and evaluation system. Guided by the theory of traditional Chinese medicine, according to the human body physiological, psychological and more features, such as the classification of constitution in population of, then "they intend" intervention, get twice the result with half the effort effect.