Have you ever brushed the so-called "Chinese medicine health" knowledge video, the opening is based on the "Yellow Emperor's Inner Classic" how to how, or the opening is how the ancients how to maintain health, etc., when you hear these contents, have you ever thought about whether these contents have scientific reasons?
Many health lectures are based on scriptures
The second treasurer is not a medical professional, naturally can not judge these contents, but the advice is still to listen to the opinions of professional doctors, but the debate on whether Chinese medicine is scientific seems to have not stopped, even if Tu Youyou started from collecting and sorting out traditional Chinese medicine prescriptions, using modern medical methods to analyze and study, continuously improving the extraction method, discovered artemisinin, and won the Nobel Prize in Biology and Medicine in October 2015. There are still many people who think that chinese medicine has no scientific basis, and even many Western medicine support that Chinese medicine cannot be proved by scientific theories and has no scientific reason.
Tu Youyou was awarded the Nobel Prize in Biology and Medicine in October 2015
The last issue did something about the 2021 Nobel Prize in Physics, and in the end, you may have a lot of conjectures about the theory of complex systems like the second treasurer. In fact, it is precisely because of thinking about the theory of complex systems that reminds me of this question about whether it is necessary to use science to explain TCM.
In fact, I personally think that this problem has two levels of doubts, why must we use science to explain Chinese medicine, how to use science to explain Chinese medicine?
Why must we use science to explain Chinese medicine, and how to use science to explain Chinese medicine?
Many people talk about the topic of the scientific nature of Chinese medicine, they are excited, Chinese medicine is broad and profound, Chinese medicine has a long heritage, Chinese medicine is a treasure of China, there is no problem in saying it, but we can not blindly advocate Chinese medicine, after all, our modern society is a cognitive society with a scientific theory system as the mainstream, the theory and knowledge of Chinese medicine need to be verified and summarized with science, or Chinese medicine needs to be integrated and upgraded with modern science.
Chinese culture has a long history, handed down a lot of magical treasures, Chinese medicine has a history of thousands of years, from the widely circulated "Yellow Emperor's Inner Classic" to the "Compendium of Materia Medica", "Treatise on Typhoid Fever and Miscellaneous Diseases" and other Chinese medicine classics, it can be said that in the long river of history, these masterpieces of Chinese medicine are the most advanced medical knowledge in the world at that time, if there was a concept of science at that time, then they were once one of the most cutting-edge sciences.
Treatise on Typhoid Fever and Miscellaneous Diseases and other TCM texts
What has to be said here is that the word science is a word that has only appeared in recent centuries, and from a historical point of view, the historical inheritance of Chinese medicine far exceeds the concept of science.
But the emergence of science has indeed changed the human world, and it has also brought human beings the power to solve many unknown mysteries, and it can also be the key for us to unlock many principles of Chinese medicine. As a treasure of China, Chinese medicine does need further upgrading and verification in the face of the environment of modern society.
At the beginning, we mentioned that Tu Youyou discovered artemisinin through analysis and research of traditional Chinese medicine prescriptions, and continuously extracted them, and won the Nobel Prize in Medicine, which is to use science to prove the content of Traditional Chinese medicine, and to upgrade and verify the content of Traditional Chinese medicine prescriptions, and found the most clear and effective content.
Tu Youyou discovered artemisinin by analyzing and studying traditional Chinese medicine prescriptions and continuously extracting them
Since childhood, I have heard the old man say that "there is reason to go all over the world", Chinese medicine has been passed down for thousands of years, and in the history of the Chinese nation, I don't know how many lives have been saved. Now there are better ways to figure out where these rationales are, shouldn't they?
Therefore, of course, Chinese medicine must be explained scientifically, and when it comes to this, many people will think of the contradictions between Chinese and Western medicine in these years, because to prove the theory of Chinese medicine, they often encounter conflicts with Western medicine.
As a modern medicine, Western medicine can clearly analyze pathology based on data and images, so that it is easier to understand
Many people firmly believe in Western medicine, and many proponents of Western medicine believe that the theory of Chinese medicine cannot be explained by Western medicine, after all, the mainstream of medicine in the field of modern science is Western medicine. Even if we want to prove Chinese medicine, many times we must use the technology and theory of Western medicine to verify. As a modern medicine, Western medicine can clearly analyze pathology based on data and images, so that it is easier to understand, and the treatment is also for the disease, whether it is drugs or surgery, it is a targeted program with rapid effect.
And what Chinese medicine calls "yin and yang are not adjusted, the five elements are not harmonious" and what are the inheritance secret recipes of "headache healing the foot" and "foot pain healing head", which seem to be unscientific in the eyes of Western medicine, but the second treasurer has done the content of the last issue on the theory of complex systems, and suddenly feels that he wants to understand a truth. Chinese traditional Chinese medicine was originally based on the overall model of the complex system of the human body, and the fact of the complex system of the human body, modern medicine still has not fully explained all the problems in it.
Chinese medicine was originally based on the overall model of the complex system of the human body
However, if we use complex system theory to examine Chinese medicine, we can explain a lot of the content of Chinese medicine that is not understood, before hearing many people attack the five elements theory in Chinese medicine, thinking that it is the content of feudal superstition, but if we put aside the so-called "gold, wood, water, fire and earth" words, to understand that Chinese medicine summarizes the relationship between various organs and tissues of a complex human body and its attribute model, and these so-called "gold, wood, water, fire and earth" is to better understand and sort out some code names of this complex system model. Perhaps we can better understand which direction the scientific nature of Chinese medicine should be excavated.
The so-called "gold, wood, water, fire and earth" is to better understand and sort out some code names for this complex system model, and perhaps to better understand the scientific nature of Chinese medicine
In short, the second treasurer feels that the model of complex system theory may be an important scientific knowledge for understanding and upgrading Chinese medicine in the future, and the eventual integration of multiple disciplines may also make all scientific knowledge merge into a complex system of human science, and perhaps only such a complex system theory is the key for human beings to move towards a higher civilization.