Did Chinese medicine originate in Taoism?
Did Chinese medicine originate in Taoism?
It should be said that Chinese medicine has absorbed the contents of Taoism, Confucianism, Buddhism, astronomy, geography, philosophy and so on.
No, before the Song Dynasty it was called Taoism, and Zhang Tianshi founded Taoism. The original Taoist thought was dogmatized. The same origin of medicine refers to Taoism.
On this question, I had an answer in mind, in order to be more rigorous, I specifically asked Mr. Zhang Honglin, a doctoral supervisor and professor of the China Academy of Traditional Chinese Medicine. Prof. Zhang Honglin's view and I are the same, confirming that my previous understanding is not wrong.
Prof. Zhang Honglin pointed out that Taoism originated from Zhang Daoling, but the origin of Chinese medicine is much earlier than the Han Dynasty. According to the evidence, in China's pre-Qin period, has formed a systematic classical theory of Chinese medicine. For example, the classic work of Chinese medicine, Huang Di Nei Jing, probably appeared earlier than the Han Dynasty (Note: I once consulted another doctoral supervisor of a Chinese medicine hospital on this issue, and he believed that Huang Di Nei Jing roughly originated in the Eastern Han Dynasty. Here, for the time being, I will take Prof. Zhang Honglin's statement). The

Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) did not originate from Taoism, but was formed through the gradual accumulation of experience in the course of people's practical life. Prof. Zhang Honglin pointed out that in the primitive and earliest stage of Chinese medicine, there was a stage of mixing with witchcraft. It can also be said that the origin of the great witch. Chinese medicine development process, some have Taoism, Taoism based on the theoretical exposition of Chinese medicine people, was mixed in.
It can be understood in this way that Chinese medicine has been developed with a little bit of Taoist thought added to it. There are Taoist and Taoist ideas in it, but not much.
Prof. ZHANG Honglin is a well-known Chinese medicine expert. His views happen to coincide with mine.
Both Taoism and Chinese medicine derive from Taoism. Note the Taoism.
People, like other mammals, have the instinct to protect individuals. Mr. Lu Xun said: "about the ancients had a disease, initially had to taste a little bit of this, that taste a little bit of this, eat the poisonous on the death, eat irrelevant on the ineffective, and some even ate to the right evidence, on the good, and then know that this is for a certain kind of medicine for the disease. This accumulation, there is a record of herbs, and later gradually become a huge book." Chinese medicine did not originate in Taoism, but in instinct. During the Spring and Autumn and Warring States periods, a hundred flowers blossomed and a hundred schools of thought contended. The doctrines of yin and yang and the five elements arose, and Chinese medicine drew on these doctrines as a theoretical tool, with the Neijing, a more systematic work on Chinese medicine.
Taoism is the only indigenous religious organization in China. It has been greatly influenced by the philosophical and cultural thinking of China before the Qin and Han dynasties. Its theories of "unity of heaven and man", "yin and yang, five elements" and "cultivation of the body" are consistent with the theories of traditional Chinese medicine (TCM). Many people believe that TCM originated from Taoism. The real Taoism was created by Zhang Daoling at the end of the Han Dynasty. It is many years later than TCM.
TCM did not originate in Taoism. It has nothing to do with Taoism. Taoism was founded by Zhang Daoling, who first exchanged five buckets of rice for initiation into the religion. Healing is carried out through talismanic water. It has nothing to do with TCM.
Chinese medicine first originated from the Great Witch, and its theoretical roots are in the Yellow Emperor's Internal Canon.
As the ancient practitioners who studied Taoism, breathing and exhaling, alchemy out of God. And in the cultivation of all kinds of practical attempts to seek breakthroughs, so the meridian body sense are studied.
Legend has it that some cultivators can see through to the structure and meridians of the body with internal vision. And based on this, they mapped the meridians and the structure of the body. For example, the magpie.
There is thus a certain intersection and overlap between TCM and Taoism, and legend has it that the highest level of TCM is Taoist medicine. At the same time TCM absorbed a large number of prescriptions.
Nowadays, there are very few practitioners, and only a certain number of prescriptions and methods for practicing Xiaozhoutian remain. (See the method of running true qi.)
I hope you enjoyed my answer.

Creating something from nothing. Day do not 'easy″ yin and yang. The sun's eyes are from the first Tao. The Tao evolves all things.
Pangu first divided to open up the sky and earth, Fuxi Xuanwei old Shenlun, called the Three Kings St. Emperor Jun, Shenlun tasted a hundred herbs, the essence of a hundred herbs pre-selected twelve medicinal essences, seven columns of the famous incense, is the history of inheritance of each magical magic method, heaven and earth and man unity, is the human body with a small press and heaven and earth and the changes in the temperature, discernment of yin and Yang, five elements of the Chinese traditional medicine inheritance of the way, the reality of the unseen laws, but the treatment of disease to save the patient and the symptoms of the root cause of the disease, a great deal of work.



Both Taoism and Chinese medicine derive from Taoism, note the Taoism. --quote from 'Rico Bite'.
So what does Taoism do and where did it come from?
First of all, it should be known that the root problem of Taoism is how to create something out of nothing, and its theoretical fruit is Taoism. Secondly, one should know that the basic method of inquiry of Taoism is internal self-evidence of body and mind. It is because of the methodological requirement of internal evidence of body and mind that only Taoism can explain clearly how illnesses can be created from nothing and how they can be transformed from something to nothing, which is why Chinese medicine is closely related to the five elements theory of Taoism.
There are two basic means of curing illness in Taoism. The first is the idea that the mind and body are the root of the great medicine, that is, the mind and body can cure diseases by themselves, so that people who practise Taoism can, in principle, remove diseases automatically by actively adjusting their physical and mental state. There is actually nothing magical about this because the human immune system does this, the difference is that ordinary people are unable to actively regulate it because they don't know about it.
The second way is with the help of external substances, such as acupuncture and herbal medicine, which is Chinese medicine. To put it simply, the fundamental problem of TCM lies in two aspects: the first is to define what kind of physical and mental state is normal, which leads to what kind of symptom is abnormal, i.e., disease, and theoretically how to get back to the normal state, which is the theory and diagnosis of TCM. The other aspect is the study of the properties of external agents, such as herbal medicines, and their connection to the regulation of the physical and mental state, which is considered pharmacology and prescription.
Therefore, it is obvious that the understanding of the state of mind and body is the root of Chinese medicine, and is also the intrinsic connection between Chinese medicine and Taoism. However, Taoism is nearly extinct, and no one can really understand the physical and mental evidence, so Chinese medicine can only learn the knowledge part of the classical inheritance, and there will be no progress in methodology, let alone development beyond. The only way to go deeper today is to carry out extensive black box experiments and then refine the experience, which is the possible way for modern TCM to progress. Sad man!
The so-called Taoism refers to the traditional religion of China's own people, which was gradually formed on the basis of ancient Chinese religious beliefs, following certain religious concepts and methods of practice of Fangxian Dao and Huanglao Dao, and taking "Tao" as the supreme belief, believing that it is possible for people to live forever and become immortals through certain practices and cultivation. Taoism was formally born in the Eastern Han Dynasty during the reign of Emperor Shun and Emperor Huan. Early Taoist sects were divided into Wu Dou Mi Dao (created by Zhang Ling) and Taiping Dao (created by Zhang Jiao).
First of all, Chinese medicine did not originate from Taoism. This is because Taoism in China was founded in the Eastern Han Dynasty. The origins of TCM clearly predate Taoism.
Secondly, according to the medical history, there are various claims about the origin of Chinese medicine. For example, Chinese medicine originated from saints (Fuxi, Shennong, Huangdi), originated from witch (毉, from witch), originated from medical instincts and medical practice, and so on, each with its own rationale.
Finally, if we take the classic of Chinese medicine, the present-day version of the Yellow Emperor's Classic of Internal Medicine, and read it, we will find that the system of the book is the correspondence between heaven and man (influenced by Dong Zhongshu, the great Confucian scholar of the Western Han Dynasty), the method is to compare analogies and take the image (which is the same as that of the Yi Chuan of the Warring States period or the same as that of the Yi Chuan), and to take the yin-yang and the five elements as the core theory, which are related to Confucianism, and have little to do with Taoism and Taoism. According to the medical text - today's version of the "Huangdi Neijing", "Nanking", "Shennong Ben Cao Jing", "Typhoid Miscellaneous Diseases" of the date of completion of the book, the maturity of the theoretical system of traditional Chinese medicine, when in the Han Dynasty. Because these four classics of Chinese medicine were all written in the Eastern Han Dynasty or later.









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