Traditional Chinese medicine: from building roads to striding forward

The 2018-12-21 health

According to a report by health daily, traditional Chinese medicine (TCM), which was born in China with the wisdom and romance of its ancestors, combines observation, hearing, inquiry and observation to diagnose diseases, adopts the philosophical thinking of the unity of heaven and man, and USES the flowers and plants all over the country as medicine. Over the past 40 years since the reform and opening up, traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) has gone through many ups and downs.

Scientific research is in the spotlight

Tu youyou, a researcher at the Chinese academy of traditional Chinese medicine, won the 2015 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine. This is the highest award that our country medical profession obtains so far. When tu youyou, artemisinin and Nobel were linked together, people could not help but re-examine the impression of traditional Chinese medicine as a backward and old-fashioned place reserved for scientific research.

Liao fulong, a researcher at the institute of traditional Chinese medicine of the Chinese academy of traditional Chinese medicine and vice chairman of the academic committee of artemisinin research center, is a witness to this history. "In 1979, an English publicity article in China introduced the story of the antimalarial drug artemisinin, which immediately attracted the attention of foreign researchers and medical experts. In October 1981, who experts came to China for an international conference on artemisinin. Mr. Tu was the first to give a report on the chemical research of artemisinin. Experts believe that the discovery of artemisinin not only adds a new antimalarial drug, but more importantly, the discovery of the unique chemical structure of the compound, which provides a direction for the design and synthesis of new antimalarial drugs. Since then, scientists in more than a dozen countries, including the United Kingdom, the United States, France, the Netherlands and Switzerland, have been conducting further research on artemisinin, liao recalled.

"Reform and opening up have enabled TCM to move from laboratory to clinical and from China to the world." Liao said that after 40 years of reform and opening up, traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) research has gone through ups and downs and kept up with the trend. From two fingers and one needle in people's eyes, to the modern electroacupuncture, intelligent four diagnostic instruments and auxiliary equipment for diagnosis and treatment based on big data; From the traditional frying, frying, broiling, calcining, processing thick black pill powder paste Dan, to the whole process of modern pharmaceutical technology, precision to molecular pharmacognosis research... Traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) scientific research has brought many surprises to people by tapping into its potential and innovation-driven development.

TCM talents are passed down from generation to generation

On June 19, 2009, li jiren, a 78-year-old traditional Chinese medicine doctor from anhui province, walked into the jingxi hotel in Beijing to welcome the glorious moment of his career -- the first national medical master recognition since the founding of new China.

All the 30 TCM masters have been engaged in TCM clinical or TCM work for more than 55 years, with profound theoretical attainments in TCM, outstanding academic achievements and high reputation among the masses. At the symposium, when asked about their ideas and opinions on the development of traditional Chinese medicine, the opinions of the elderly were surprisingly consistent -- encouraging young students to learn classics, attach importance to clinical practice and constantly inherit and innovate.

Like most of the first masters of Chinese medicine, li jiren began his medical studies by following his teachers. Education underdeveloped era, the old Chinese medicine with hand, face to face, one-on-one teaching, slowly, a small number of "grinding" talent. But with the explosion of population and the explosion of medical care demand, such cultivation mode is obviously difficult to meet the demand. After the founding of the People's Republic of China, education college started and developed rapidly after the reform and opening up. In the second and third national medical masters, there are more and more famous traditional Chinese medicine doctors from education universities.

"Great achievements have been made in the cultivation of TCM talents over the past 40 years. Now, basically every province has TCM colleges and universities, covering undergraduate, master and doctor degrees." Huang luqi, President of the Chinese academy of sciences of traditional Chinese medicine and an academician of the Chinese academy of engineering, said, "the establishment of education system of traditional Chinese medicine makes the scale of talent cultivation of traditional Chinese medicine different from 40 years ago. At the same time, emphasis on learning from education, reading classics, emphasis on practice. While engaged in molecular pharmacognosis research, huang luqi learned valuable experience from traditional Chinese medicine masters under the guidance of the master of traditional Chinese medicine and the famous expert of traditional Chinese medicine jin shiyuan. This year, the state administration of traditional Chinese medicine issued the guidance on deepening the education inheritance of traditional Chinese medicine teachers to further improve the education model of traditional Chinese medicine. "The past 40 years of reform and opening up have provided a good opportunity for the inheritance and development of traditional Chinese medicine at the right time, at the right place and with the right people." "Huang luqi said.

Improving services will benefit old and young people in both urban and rural areas

The roots of TCM services are at the grassroots level. In an era when China's medical conditions are extremely backward, traditional Chinese medicine USES a needle and a straw to drag people's fragile lives forward. People from the life of mutual trust, and the motherland's medicine forged a deep feeling.

After the reform and opening up, the state built seven TCM bases to ensure the cultivation of high-level talents and the construction of high-level diagnosis and treatment institutions. At the same time, we should cultivate the grass roots and expand the territory for the construction of TCM service capacity at the grass roots. In October 1986, the ministry of health held a meeting on the work of county-level hospitals of traditional Chinese medicine. For the first time, the goal of popularizing county-level hospitals of traditional Chinese medicine or hospitals of ethnic minorities was put forward. This is since the founding of the People's Republic of China, China's first dedicated to the deployment of county-level hospital of traditional Chinese medicine construction and development of an important conference. A few years later, the vast majority of China's more than 2,000 counties have hospitals of traditional Chinese medicine.

Since then, the construction of TCM service capacity in urban and rural areas has been on the right track. In 2011, China conducted the first nationwide survey of the current situation of TCM. The results showed that 59.6% of the medical institutions in China were able to provide TCM medical services. There were 517,400 TCM personnel in China, with 3.06 TCM doctors per 10,000 population. Acupuncture, tuina and other traditional Chinese medicine therapies were widely used in 81.7% of community health service centers and 65.6% of township health centers.

In view of the prominent problems in the development of traditional Chinese medicine found in the survey, such as the inadequate medical service network of urban and rural grassroots traditional Chinese medicine, the uneven ability of traditional Chinese medicine characteristic service, the large difference in supporting measures of traditional Chinese medicine in different regions, the compensation mechanism has not yet been established and improved, etc., a new round of state support has quickly caught up. On the one hand, the project to improve the service capacity of TCM at the grass-roots level has been continuously launched with remarkable results. According to incomplete statistics, apart from the central government's investment, in 2016 and 2017 alone, provinces spent 21.64 billion yuan on the plan of action. By the end of 2017, 98.2 percent of China's community health service centers, 96 percent of township health centers, 85.5 percent of community health service stations and 66.4 percent of village health offices were able to provide traditional Chinese medicine services, making it easier for local people to seek medical treatment nearby. On the other hand, the law on traditional Chinese medicine was implemented on July 1, 2017, and a package of supporting policies and documents were successively issued to provide legal guarantee for the development of traditional Chinese medicine.

"We should earnestly inherit, develop and make good use of the precious wealth left to us by our ancestors, and write a new chapter in the great journey of building a healthy China and realizing the Chinese dream." General secretary xi jinping's expectation in the congratulatory letter on the 60th anniversary of the founding of the Chinese academy of traditional Chinese medicine is becoming a reality step by step.