Cognitive Methods of Life and Disease in Traditional Chinese Medicine

2017-02-02

China Intangible Cultural Heritage Network

Category: Traditional Medicine

Region: Central

Number: IX-1

Declaration area or unit: China Academy of Traditional Chinese Medicine

      Chinese medicine on life and disease awareness is based on the traditional Chinese culture to understand the phenomenon of human life and disease laws of a medical knowledge. Knowledge of life and disease of traditional Chinese medicine originated in the legendary ancient Yellow Emperor, Qi Bo era, "Yellow Emperor" as the symbol of Chinese life and disease knowledge system has been the formation of two thousand years of history.

      Chinese medicine knowledge of life and disease, including yin and yang, five elements, dirty elephant, meridians, diseases and syndromes, etiology and pathogenesis, syndrome differentiation, rule the rule of law, five Yun six gas content.

Chinese medicine uses the concept of yin and yang unity of opposites to describe human life activities, as well as man and nature, society and other external environment interdependent relationship. Yin and yang balance is to maintain and ensure that the basis of human life activities, yin and yang disorders lead to disease changes.

      Traditional Chinese Medicine uses the five elements theory to explain the relationship between the human body and nature, the various parts of the human body and the mechanism of disease development and to guide the treatment of the disease.

Dirty as the human body is an important phenomenon of life, including five internal organs, six internal organs, Qi Heng of the internal organs and the fine, gas, blood, body fluids and pathological changes.

      Meridian is the channel of human blood running, there is the role of contact with the body. Meridian system, including twelve meridians, the meridians and collaterals, is the basis of traditional Chinese medicine diagnosis and treatment of diseases, but also acupuncture, massage and other important theoretical basis for therapy.

      Etiology is the study of disease causes and conditions of the doctrine, including the exogenous six prostitution, internal injuries and seven food and clothing tired.

Pathogenesis theory is the study of disease occurrence and development of the doctrine.

      Dialectical treatment is the use of hope, smell, ask, cut and other methods to diagnose the disease, the results of the analysis to be comprehensive conclusion, the establishment of the principle of treatment.

      The rule of law is the treatment of diseases must abide by the basic principles and methods of Chinese medicine in long-term clinical practice summed up the treatment of law, mainly to adjust the yin and yang, righting, specimens of urgency, and because of people, due to local conditions.

      Wu Yun Liu Qi is the study, to explore the natural astronomy, weather, phenology changes on human health and disease impact of systematic knowledge.

      On the disease, the understanding of syndromes, Chinese medicine has a unique theory and method. Chinese medicine believes that the occurrence of the disease is the performance of good and evil. "Huang Di Nei Jing" put forward the "righteousness inside the evil can not be dry," "evil of the Minato, the gas will be empty" concept of the disease. "Treatise on miscellaneous diseases," and other early records of a large number of documents on the understanding of the disease, the Sui Dynasty, "the pathogenesis of the disease," recorded 67 1720 kinds of card.

      TCM knowledge of life and disease is the core of TCM knowledge. It plays a guiding role in all aspects of TCM health, diagnosis, therapy, prescription, traditional Chinese medicine, acupuncture and clinical practice. However, due to the influence of western medicine, the number of people who can understand and pass on this knowledge is decreasing, facing the dilemma of preservation and development, and deserves to be protected and developed.