Like western medicine, traditional Chinese medicine studies human diseases and health problems. Traditional Chinese medicine is rooted in China's 5000 year old traditional culture and has established its basic theoretical system in the spring and autumn, Warring States and Qin and Han Dynasties, when ancient Chinese culture was prosperous. As a knowledge that is good at accumulating experience and thinking about images, traditional Chinese medicine has been infiltrated and influenced by Confucianism and Taoism for a long time, and intersected and integrated with each other, so it has a deep brand of Chinese traditional culture. For example, traditional Chinese medicine emphasizes the diagnosis and treatment of diseases from the relationship between heaven and man, and pays attention to the dynamic observation of the changes of pathogenesis in vivo, which is the reflection of the core philosophy of the relationship between heaven and man and the relationship between motion and stillness in traditional Chinese culture in the theory of traditional Chinese medicine.
For the causes of diseases, traditional Chinese medicine mainly explores the disharmony between man and nature, the disharmony between man and society, the imbalance of human viscera function, the disharmony of Qi and blood, the disharmony of form and spirit and so on. Traditional Chinese medicine constructs a medical model of nature society form and spirit, which pays attention to the overall connection, but the means of micro analysis is relatively weak.
In the thinking of clinical diagnosis and treatment, traditional Chinese medicine pays attention to the concept of individualized and dynamic diagnosis and treatment. The so-called individualization is to take each individual as an important research object. Suffering from the same disease, the performance of each individual is different, that is to say, its pathological change mechanism is also different, which determines that the treatment should be individualized. If it is also coronary heart disease, some patients are mainly blood stasis, and the treatment should adopt the method of promoting blood circulation and removing blood stasis; Some patients are mainly phlegm dampness, and the treatment mainly uses the method of resolving phlegm and removing dampness.
The so-called dynamic principle means that motion change is the basic attribute and inherent feature of life, so the disease is also dynamic. Doctors must master the law of dynamic change of disease in diagnosis and treatment, and take corresponding diagnosis and treatment measures in different periods of time, so as to achieve better curative effect. This individual and dynamic diagnosis and treatment concept is summarized in one sentence as syndrome differentiation and treatment.
At different levels, such as the principles and methods of treating diseases, traditional Chinese medicine takes mobilizing and stimulating the ability of independent disease resistance as the basic principle, that is, the so-called "supporting righteousness and eliminating evil". Traditional Chinese medicine believes that when people feel evil Qi and get sick, they have the disease resistance trend of protecting the body from further invasion of disease pathogens until they get rid of them.
Traditional Chinese medicine focuses on protecting and making use of this trend in treatment, and advocates the principle of taking advantage of the situation in order to achieve twice the result with half the effort. For example, the clinical manifestations of fever, sweating, vomiting, diarrhea and other symptoms, traditional Chinese medicine believes that this is often the result of the resistance of healthy qi against evil. We can use Xinwen divergence, sweating and relieving the surface, vomiting, catharsis and other treatment methods to eliminate evil according to the trend.
When it is difficult to completely eliminate the evil Qi for a while, resulting in the chronic prolongation of the disease, traditional Chinese medicine does not blindly eliminate the evil Qi, but adopts the method of reconciliation and slow treatment, and then gradually eliminate the evil Qi after the healthy qi becomes stronger and stronger; Even if the evil Qi stays, the basic health state of peaceful coexistence can be maintained through traditional Chinese medicine treatment. This kind of peaceful coexistence is one of the connotations of the principle of harmonizing Yin and Yang in traditional Chinese medicine. Due to these characteristics in treatment principles and methods, traditional Chinese medicine can play an important role in the prevention and treatment of some acute diseases and most chronic diseases.