The fact that Mr. Tu Youyou has been on the hot list this time shows that people's concern for Chinese medicine is increasing. Traditional Chinese medicine has gone through a complete strangulation during the Republic of China period, and there has been a trough, which is attributed to the excessive superstition of people towards Western medicine in the early days. In some aspects, Western medicine does have certain advantages, such as anti-infective aspects, especially the emergence of penicillin.

After the liberation of China, in order to rapidly improve the quality of the whole population, we cultivated the profession of "barefoot doctors", which to a certain extent alleviated the lack of medical treatment in the countryside, and Chinese medicine played its great role again. Of course, here also have the credit of Western medicine, "the combination of Chinese and Western medicine" also appeared at this time.

With the advent of health care reform, the state of the hospital as a national health protection place (some people compare it to the "second line of national defense" is not too much) into a self-financing institutions, the introduction of economic accounting, a series of problems, large hospitals, the emergence of large hospitals, small hospitals, especially township hospitals are gradually declining, large hospitals are overcrowded. The emergence of large prescriptions, large checks, high-grade examination and treatment equipment is all driven by interests. The number of patients is increasing, the degree of people's desire for health and their expectations of hospitals are getting higher and higher.

Chinese medicine practitioners have also picked up the methods of Western medicine in order to survive. For example, Chinese medicine hospitals have also carried out programs that include all Western examinations and treatments so that they can be maintained and people can be paid bonuses and salaries. With profit-seeking behavior comes the desire to maximize profit, so Chinese hospitals are now adopting the management model of Western hospitals as well.

The only way to return hospitals to the right track of saving lives and helping people is to cut the chain of interests. The nature of the hospital's public welfare must be manifested. Because Chinese medicine is concerned about people-oriented, so all the costs are much less, the state should have the responsibility to really manage the hospital, if people are charged by virtue of the machine, then the hospital will also be profit-seeking, Chinese medicine will also be learned from the Western medicine began to profit-seeking. Chinese medicine is also difficult to revitalize.

To manage hospitals as if they were national borders, doctors are border guards, so that hospitals scrambling for patients completely end, Beijing's big hospitals began to go deep into the township health centers, the tentacles of all levels of tertiary hospitals are also reaching out to grass-roots hospitals, they are not really delivering medical care, but rather scrambling for the health insurance this piece of cake only.

Since the country is pinning its hopes on Chinese medicine, it is necessary to carry out major surgery on health care reform in order to revitalize Chinese medicine. In addition, the general social environment also needs to be overhauled, so as to change the existing profit-seeking mentality of the entire population, and the so-called "laughing at the poor but not laughing at the prostitutes" is a concrete manifestation of this phenomenon.

It would be naive to think that Tu Youyou's artemisinin is a traditional Chinese medicine.

In fact, there is a problem with the term "Chinese and Western medicine", which seems to be a complete juxtaposition, and should actually be referred to as "traditional medicine" and "modern medicine" to better illustrate the situation. Modern medicine is developed from traditional medicine, but modern medicine comes from Western traditional medicine, while our traditional medicine is still stuck in the old ways and has not progressed.

Why did Tu Youyou win the Nobel Prize? Because Mr. Tu happened to follow the path of modernization of traditional Chinese medicine. He found the active ingredient in Chinese medicine, purified it and proved that artemisinin is the most effective ingredient in Chinese medicine. For this reason, he was awarded the prize.

Herbal medicine to identify the active ingredients, purification is exactly the course of modernization of Chinese medicine. So artemisinin is already considered a Western medicine, far from the original bark, grass roots and other boiled soup.

In fact, the mainstream anti-malaria drug is no longer artemisinin, but penicillin derivatives, which are 20 times more effective than artemisinin. This is entirely a product of modern technology. The dihydroartemisinin mentioned in the news is no longer a natural ingredient. Therefore, the use of Mr. Tu Youyou to win the Nobel Prize to illustrate how Chinese medicine is the wrong target, Mr. Tu has highlighted the need for modernization of Chinese medicine. Staying in the primitive state and sticking to the old ways is digging one's own grave.

Why the hot debate? On the one hand there is the onslaught of TCM hacks. On the other hand, there is the hardcore Chinese medicine practitioner defense.

In Eryang's opinion, the extraction of artemisinin from Artemisia annua and its use according to the pharmacology of Western medicine, regardless of whether it is effective or not is no longer the business of Chinese medicine. If the excavation of good use of the method, prescription drugs, just prove that Chinese medicine is indeed a treasure trove worthy of Western medicine to dig and learn.

On the other hand, there are many good methods of Chinese medicine used to date, we use the method of Chinese medicine with the efficacy of the fact that there is no doubt, thousands of years of clinical application has proved that this point, have to put on the scientific coat of the jets can look at or learn about the modern Western medicine evidence-based medicine.

Chinese medicine is so advanced in applying systems thinking theory and integrative treatment. Western medicine will never be able to understand, because they are still stuck in single-cell thinking. After all, human beings are not cells and molecules; they are a complex whole. Chinese medicine is to adjust this whole.

The extraction of artemisinin and the expansion of its application can make those people who kneel to lick the foreign lord self-congratulation just, Chinese medicine has long been limited in application, have to be recognized by the Western foreign lord to have a sense of achievement and existence, this slavery is deeply rooted. Many so-called senior intellectuals have been colonized and scraped.

When it comes to medicine, you must talk about Rice, someone else's dialectic is the truth, etc! ......

All of the above I think is why this issue is hotly debated.

Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) has sustained the Chinese nation to this day.

Thanks for the invite!

Tu Youyouyou on the hot search, traditional Chinese medicine contribution will cause network debate, because now Chinese medicine in the West, some people with ulterior motives in the country to cultivate a large number of Chinese medicine black, as long as the matter of Chinese medicine will be black, very few positive reports about Chinese medicine, until Tu Youyou won the Nobel Prize! And the fact is that the Western medical treatment of death in the minority, but most people turn a blind eye, hold on to the small tail of Chinese medicine do not let go, every day black, every day scolding, so that people are daunted! There is no denying that Chinese medicine has had its share of problems, and there have been many garbage Chinese medicine practitioners who have discredited traditional Chinese medicine, but is there no such problem with Western medicine? The proliferation of antibiotics has led to the emergence of superbugs and ultimately untreatable deaths, whose fault is this?

Chinese medicine is just not used in the right way, some villages and towns in the countryside Chinese medicine effect is much better than hospitals, and cheap, are affordable, if there is no effect, why would there be a long queue of people running to such a remote place to seek medical treatment?

As early as 1913, Mao Zedong wrote in his notes for the Lecture Hall Record, "Chinese and Western medicine have their own strengths. The Chinese speak of chakra and the Western speak of experimentation. However, those who talk about qi and veins are too subtle to be recognized by ordinary people, so they often lose their sense of emptiness. Those who speak of experiments, seeking specialized quality and gas is away, so often lose its essence, then the two and each have a bias." This is the earliest discourse on Chinese and Western medicine by Mao Zedong found so far.On November 25, 1928, Mao Zedong pointed out in the article "The Struggle of Jinggang Mountain" that "Once in combat, there is a group of wounded soldiers. Due to insufficient nutrition, exposure to cold and other reasons, many officers and soldiers fell ill. Hospitals were set up on the mountain and treated with both Chinese and Western methods."

Therefore, no matter Chinese or Western medicine can cure the disease is good, combining the advantages of each other, better service to mankind! I also hope that there will be more angels on earth like Tu Youyou!

Artemisia annua to stop malaria, is not a Chinese medicine practitioner using the theory of Chinese medicine deduction, this is just an experience, but was a drunk on taking lead and mercury Taoist priest (perhaps also can be called Chinese medicine practitioner it) recorded, which does not show that the Chinese medicine how great or effective, on the contrary, because of Chinese medicine theory of the useless, leading to the Chinese medicine practitioner can not do further research on this experience, such as artemisia annua mechanism is what, is it ah or tonic Yin ah can be replaced by other drugs ah and so on, really want to do so, the Chinese medicine invented other effective means may also be possible. Clear heat ah or complement Yin ah is it possible to use other drugs instead of ah, and so on, really want to do so, Chinese medicine invented other effective means may be, unfortunately, more than a thousand years have passed, the study of artemisia is still two words, cut malaria, to put it bluntly is able to cure malaria, and even imagined that the original effective artemisia fresh juice service to the ineffective sun-drying decoction, artemisinin award-winning and then hasten to rub the Shame on you, this is the profound Chinese medicine, thanks to Tu Youyou, let us see the true face of Chinese medicine, but also see the shameless face of Chinese medicine.

Modern medicine is pseudo-science and TCM is complexity science.

Causes of Internet fever: is artemisinin a traditional Chinese medicine? The road from concoction and alchemy to chemical composition.

On October 5, 2015, the Caroline School of Medicine in Sweden announced in Stockholm that Tu Youyou, a Chinese woman pharmacologist and chief researcher at the Institute of Traditional Chinese Medicine of the Chinese Academy of Traditional Chinese Medicine, was awarded the 2015 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, along with William Campbell and Tomo Omura. This is the first time a Chinese scientist has been awarded the Nobel Prize in science for scientific research conducted on Chinese soil, and is the highest award the Chinese medical profession has received to date. The reason was her discovery of artemisinin, a drug that is effective in reducing the death rate of malaria patients.

Prof. Tu Youyou, photo courtesy of the Internet

However, for Tu Youyou's award, the domestic Chinese medicine circles are talking about a lot of praise and criticism, praiseworthy people think that Tu Youyou Nobel Prize winner is the sign of Chinese medicine culture revival, and disparaging people think that Tu Youyou Nobel Prize winner is the beginning of the demise of the Chinese medicine culture, for the two different understandings of the correctness of the right and wrong, we must rationally analyze the view can't be emotionally charged, after all, this is the development of traditional Chinese medicine in the history of the landmark of the big event.

Section I: A correct understanding of the "metaphysical" world view

Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM), generally refers to medicine based on traditional medicine created by the Han Chinese working people, so it is also called Han medicine. It is the study of human physiology, pathology, and the diagnosis and prevention of diseases.

Chinese medicine was born in the primitive society, and the theory of Chinese medicine was basically formed during the Spring and Autumn and Warring States Periods, and has been summarized and developed in the following generations. In addition, it has had a profound influence on the countries in the Chinese character culture circle, such as Japan's Chinese medicine, Korea's Korean medicine, Korea's Koryo medicine, Vietnam's Eastern medicine, etc., all of which were developed on the basis of TCM.

As Chinese medicine is the only traditional medicine that can be passed on to the present among the four ancient civilizations, there have been many different points of view in history, but from the epistemological point of view, there is an unchanging principle that is the concept of "metaphysical down", but this point of view has been misunderstood in the process of historical evolution, which has led to great divergence in the understanding of Chinese medicine, and has caused many Chinese medicine practitioners to have a misunderstanding in their understanding of Chinese medicine. However, this concept of understanding has produced great misunderstanding in the process of historical evolution, and has also led to great differences in the understanding of Chinese medicine, and has also led to many Chinese medicine practitioners in the understanding of Chinese medicine in the study of the thinking of a misunderstanding, therefore, when it comes to the inheritance and development of Chinese medicine culture, we must first of all reflect on their own "metaphysical" concept of understanding.

1: Examination of the original meaning of "metaphysics" in ancient times

The theory of "metaphysics and metaphysics" first came from the First Book of the System of Rhetoric:

"Yi" is not visible, then Qiankun or almost rest. Therefore, the metaphysical is called the Road, the form of the lower is called the instrument. Chemical and cut the so-called change, push the so-called pass, lifting and wrong the people of the world is called the cause." .

One of them is "metaphysics is called Tao, and the metaphysical is called instrument", which is the so-called "metaphysics", and thus began to gradually form the ancient Chinese worldview, that is, the cognitive outlook of traditional Chinese medicine.

However, we should pay special attention to the fact that in this worldview of ancient China, sex above and form below is an inseparable unity, and the words "form above" corresponds to "form below" and "form below" corresponds to "form above", and "form above" and "form below" are not two different things, and therefore they are called "metaphysics" and "form below". Therefore, they are called "metaphysics" and "metaphysics below", and can never be replaced by "above form" and "below form".

According to the "metaphysical down" view of the world and understanding:

The "metaphysics is called the Way" is the "Way" of the "form is called the tool".

The "lower form is called a tool" is the "tool" of the "metaphysics is called the way."

Comprehensively speaking, "metaphysics" is the theory of the unity of the Taoist apparatus, with modern philosophy is the so-called phenomenon of the law can not be separated, the law is the law of the phenomenon, the phenomenon is the law of the phenomenon, the same as the Buddhist classic "Prajna Paramitra Heart Sutra", "the color is not different from the air, the air is not different from the color, the color is air, the empty is color," "the empty is color". Emptiness is color.

The "metaphysical down" view of the world and understanding of the original intention of the upper and lower as an indivisible unity of opposites, so the "Department of the Rhetoric" on what is the "Road" has the following verses: "A yin and a yang is called the Road, following the goodness of the person, the nature of the person who has become also. The one who becomes it is also called the nature. Benevolence is called benevolence, knowledge is called knowledge, the people day-to-day use and do not know, so the way of the gentleman is fresh. Show the benevolence, hide the use of the drums of all things and not with the saints with the worry, Shengde Daiye to go! The rich is called Daiye, the new is called Shengde. The birth of the so-called easy, into the image of the so-called Qian, the law of the so-called Kun, the extreme number of the so-called account, through the change of the so-called things, yin and yang unpredictable so-called God." .

Under the influence of the above worldview, the ancient Chinese sages studied and thought about the universe and life based on the idea that "what is below the form is called the vessel" and "what is above the form is called the way", that is, to see the essence of the phenomenon through the phenomenon, not to set up another "way" body outside the phenomenon; if another "way" body is set up outside the phenomenon, it is "above the form and below the form", not "below the form". The existence of a "Tao" body outside the phenomenon; if another Tao body exists outside the phenomenon, it is "above and below the form", not "below the metaphysics". "The son said: The gentleman does not have a weapon." This is also the meaning.

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2: Distinguishing between "metaphysical" and "metaphysical" similarities and differences

The term metaphysics actually refers to a sub-discipline of philosophy.' The term 'metaphysics' did not appear in Aristotle's time; it came about when Andronico compiled the posthumous works of Yahweh in 60 B.C.E. He first compiled writings about natural things in sensible motion and change under the name of Physics, and placed the chapters of what is now known as Metaphysics after Physics and gathered them together in a single book, named Meta physika, now the Metaphysics.

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What is meant by metaphysics in Western philosophy is the study of existence. It is the study of things that are outside of science, formless and unprovable. Metaphysics, a category of primitive philosophy, refers to speculation about the nature of the unprovable and intangible world, and what we now often call 'the way of thinking that observes things from an isolated, static, and one-sided point of view' is its later derivation.

It is an ontological system for the study of 'being' whose theoretical principle is Plato's 'dualization of the world', historically in the service of theology. It was used as a philosophical term from the 13th century onwards to refer to the study of what is supra-empirical (soul, freedom of will, etc.). After Hegel's introduction of the dialectic, it was used again to refer to the ancient worldview and methodology in opposition to the dialectic.

When we understand the meaning of "metaphysics" in Western philosophy, we will find that this philosophical concept is fundamentally different from the traditional Chinese "metaphysics", and the Eastern "metaphysics" is not 'world dualization' but 'world monism'. The Eastern "metaphysics down" is not a 'dualization of the world' but a 'monization of the world'.

The 'world dualization' refers to the phenomenon and essence of two separate and independent existences, the 'world monism' is the phenomenon and essence of two manifestations of an existence, which is the fundamental difference between the philosophical concepts of the Eastern and Western cultures, in a strict sense, the Western philosophical 'world dualization' should be translated as "metaphysics", and not as "metaphysics", the Chinese traditional philosophical view can only be expressed by "metaphysics". "Strictly speaking, the Western philosophical concept of 'dualization of the world' should be translated as 'metaphysics', not 'metaphysics', which is the only way to express the traditional Chinese philosophical concept of 'metaphysics'.

3: The philosophical concept of "metaphysics" guides Chinese medicine.

Because traditional Chinese medicine is guided by the philosophical concept of "metaphysics", it has been based on the foundation of "metaphysics is said to be a tool" and the pursuit of "metaphysics is said to be a way" since ancient times, based on the accumulation of a large amount of empirical knowledge of human anatomy, physiology, pathology and so on. Accumulated a large number of human anatomy, physiology, pathology and other empirical knowledge based on the gradual formation of a systematic and organic medical theory system, not only has a logical self-consistent theoretical system, but also has a strict mechanism based on the so-called not to pursue the shape of the so-called above the existence of another, that is, "outside the six outside of the existence of the blind" medical concept.

Schematic of the two epistemologies

Section 2: Traditional Chinese Medicine has a human mechanism basis since ancient times

1: Analysis of the views of Chinese and Western medicine

The gradual decline of Chinese medicine in the process of modern development is an indisputable historical fact, and there are mainly three different points of view on the reasons for the decline of Chinese medicine:

One: only philosophy guides the dialectic and opposes Western medical theories

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This point of view is in the modern medical science into China, the two theories under the comparison, because the theory of Chinese medicine does not have a detailed anatomy, histology and other mechanisms of the system, so that the Chinese medicine from the anatomy, physiology, histology, embryology and other perspectives to study and think about the Chinese medicine, the argument to the so-called "metaphysics" of the so-called Taoist body as the root, this The viewpoint is too remote, medicine is a highly technical discipline, if a doctor even the basic anatomy of the orientation is not, based solely on the purely logical system is impossible to know the clinical medical practice, ancient and modern Chinese and foreign medicine can not accept this point of view, if we look deeply into the root cause of this point of view, the reality is that the Western philosophical "form on the next If we look deeply into the root cause of this viewpoint, it is actually a misinterpretation of Western philosophy's "form above and below" as Chinese medicine's "behavior above and below" that leads to the erroneous concept of understanding, under which the simple and mechanical establishment of the so-called identification of Chinese medicine is just a crude summary of syndromes, lacking a rigorous mechanism, and negating the extension of Chinese medicine to the development of micro-mechanisms, with the ultimate result of The ultimate result is that TCM will never be able to make the transition to modernization, which is an absolutely wrong concept.

Secondly, they completely deny Chinese medicine and consider it a pseudo-science.

This view reached its peak in the Republic of China, when opposition to Chinese medicine led to the banning of Chinese medicine by the government of the Republic of China. Careful study of the opponents of Chinese medicine, such as Yu Yunxiu, Lu Xun, and others, were the first to come into contact with Western medicine at the time, and after learning Western medicine, they looked back and compared the two systems of medicine and came up with the idea of opposing Chinese medicine, which has been popular to the present day. This viewpoint is also a bit too radical, traditional Chinese medicine is the process of thousands of years of history, history and practice has proved the rationality and applicability of Chinese medicine, Western medicine has been the mainstream of medicine before the introduction of China, the development of Chinese medicine in the process of the emergence of a lot of shortcomings is unavoidable, if the total negation of the absolute is a kind of radical thinking concepts.

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Third: the convergence of Chinese and Western medical perspectives

Chinese and Western medicine from the introduction of Western medicine into China began, the earliest is the late Qing Dynasty lifer Tang Zonghai, Guangxu years to raise a bachelor's degree, after middle age, but turned to the study of medicine, advocating both the strengths of all schools, 'good ancient but not superstitious ancients, erudition, but can take the long and give up the short,' the author of the Chinese and Western medicine through the essence of medical scriptures Basic theoretical works. Also known as "Judgment of Chinese and Western Medicine", "Chinese and Western Medicine Explained", and "Introduction to Chinese and Western Medicine". And other works; into the Republic of China period, to Zhang Xichun "Zhongzhong Senxi Lu" for the typical representative of the combination of Chinese and Western medicine; this school of thought is actually a more objective understanding of the Chinese medicine, although far-reaching, but after all, belongs to the traditional medicine from the era of the development of modern scientific instruments, traditional Chinese medicine must be combined with the modern means of enriching their own scientific means in order to truly obtain the resumption of the line and the development of, although this is a long process of research, but this is a road that must be traveled. Although this is a long research process, but this is a road that must be taken.

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2: Chinese medicine theory has the basis of human body mechanism since ancient times

First: the theory of Chinese medicine has a physiological and anatomical mechanism

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Traditional Chinese medicine through thousands of years of history can exist, and get the efficacy of verification, not simply rely on philosophy can do, but with anatomy and physiology of the most basic mechanism exists, the most obvious is the "Yellow Emperor's Classic of Internal Medicine" in the "five degrees" said that there is a pulse degree, the degree of viscera, the degree of meat, tendon degree, Yu degree, etc., the so-called degree of the meaning of the degree of measurement survey, which is the typical physiological and anatomical meaning. The so-called degree is the meaning of measuring and surveying, that is, the typical physiological and anatomical meaning.

The Spiritual Pivot, Pulse Degree: "The Yellow Emperor said. I would like to hear the pulse. Qibo replied. The six yang of the hand. From the hand to the head. Five feet long. Five six three feet. The six yin of the hand. From the hand to the chest. Three feet and five inches. Three, six, one, eight feet. Five, six, three feet. Together two feet one foot. The six yang of the foot. From the foot to the head of eight feet. Six eight four feet eight feet. The six yin of the foot. From the foot to the chest. Six feet and five inches. Sixty-six three feet six feet. Five six three feet. Three feet nine feet. Stilt pulse from the foot to the eye. Seven feet and five inches. Two seven, one foot, four feet. Two and a half feet. Combined with one zhang five feet. The Duji Pulse and Ren Pulse. Four feet five inches each. Two four eight feet. Two and a half feet. Together nine feet. Where all together sixteen feet two feet. This is the great meridian tunnel of qi." The length of the meridians is measured in great detail.

The same is true for the other four degrees, which shows that traditional Chinese medicine theories have had the basis of human physiological and anatomical mechanisms since ancient times.

Second: Theories of Chinese medicine inherently have embryological mechanisms

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Traditional Chinese medicine theory not only has the principle of physiological and anatomical mechanism, but also has the embryological mechanism.

The Spiritual Pivot. Determining Qi Chapters" speaks:

"The emperor said: I heard that people have essence, gas, fluid, liquid, blood, pulse, I thought a gas ear, this is recognized as six names, I do not know why. Diao Bo said: the two gods wrestle with each other, combined and shaped, often first body born, is called essence.

What is gas? Diao Bo said: the upper focus on the open, hair Xuan five grain flavor, smoked skin, full body, Ze hair, if the fog and dew of irrigation, is called gas.

What is Jin? Qibo said: Couples venting, sweat Giverny, is called Jin.

What is liquid? Diao Bo said: Ceres into the gas full of Naoze, injected into the bone, the bone is flexion and extension, leakage of Ze, replenish the brain marrow, skin moisturizing, is called liquid.

What is blood? Diao Bo said: The middle jiao receives qi, takes the juice change and red, is called blood.

What is the pulse? Diao Bo said, "The congestion of the Ying Qi, so that there is nothing to avoid, is called the pulse."

The "six names and one qi" theory of Chinese medicine is a typical mechanism of human embryogenesis and development.

It is taught in the Founder's School of Chinese Medicine classic, the Taishang Laojun Neiguanjing:

" Heaven and earth make essence, yin and yang cloth, all things to be born. They are all born. They have their own karma, and they are divided into different spiritual paths. Parents and harmony, people are born. Beginning, January for the cell, the essence of blood condensation. February into a fetus, the shape of the embryo. In March, the Yang Spirit becomes the three souls, and is born in motion. In April, the Yin Spirit is the Seven Spirits, which are quiet and calm. In May, the five elements are divided into Tibetan in order to tranquilize the spirit. In June, the six rules of the internal organs with the spirit of nourishment. July, the seven essence of the opening, through the light. In August, the eight scenes of God, descending the true spirit. In September, the Palace of Roberts, in order to set the essence. In October, the gas is sufficient, and all the images come into being. In October, when the gas is sufficient, all the images come into being. The time of feeding is non-stop."

The content of the above verses is very clearly based on the mechanism of human embryonic development and the development of the doctrine of health care.

It can be seen through the above list of scriptures that traditional Chinese medicine theory originally had a very precise and detailed system of anatomical and embryological mechanisms, definitely not the so-called simple empirical nonsense, not to mention the so-called purely abstract philosophical discourse, but has a similar theoretical system with modern medicine, only that due to the classic text is too difficult and the classical description is too loose, so that the general scholars are unable to grasp it in a systematic way, and it doesn't mean that Chinese medicine It does not mean that there is no human body mechanism.

Section 3: TCM formulas can be studied for their ingredients

Many so-called hardcore Chinese medicine practitioners believe that in order to inherit Chinese medicine from the Chinese medicine from the Western-style compositional analysis, only to maintain the decoction method of natural tablets is the only pure traditional Chinese medicine, based on this point of view of the Chinese medicine people, see Tu Youyou Professor Nobel Prize winners, published a lot of statements, that the study of artemisinin is not a traditional Chinese medicine, but the study of Western medicines, has nothing to do with traditional Chinese medicine, and the extreme believe that the invention of artemisinin In fact, this is a very narrow understanding, do not know that traditional Chinese medicine since ancient times, the concept of composition analysis, and has been the core of the development of Chinese medicine is also the main line.

One: the application of compositional analysis of traditional Chinese medicine in the Shih Chuan School of Chinese Medicine.

Lei Gong Gun Zhi Lun, three volumes, North and South Dynasties, Liu Song - Lei However, it was written in the fifth century AD. It is a classic work of ancient Chinese medicine. This book is the earliest monograph on Chinese medicine preparation in China. It contains 300 kinds of medicines, each of which is described in the first part of the book to describe the characteristics of the herbs and the key points of differentiation between the herbs and the easily-mixed varieties, so as to distinguish their authenticity from their inferiority and their authenticity, and it is an important document for the identification of traditional Chinese medicines. Lei Gong Gun Zhi Theory" is also China's earliest monograph on pharmaceuticals, the book called pharmaceuticals for the repair of the matter, repair treatment, repair and so on, describing the net selection, crushing, cutting, drying, water system, fire system, plus auxiliary system and other methods, the net selection of herbs, the special requirements of the also have a detailed discussion.

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In particular, the "water, fire, and auxiliary" ingredients have changed the composition of the original herbs. This shows that traditional Chinese medicine is not opposed to the application of component analysis, and from the very beginning has the concept of changing the selection of components used in medical treatment.

Second: Analysis and use of ingredients of the Founder's School elixir

Taoist external alchemy has been practiced in China for nearly two thousand years. Mr. Yuan Hanqing, a famous expert in the history of chemistry in China, believes that alchemy is the forerunner of modern chemistry, and the experimental instruments and medicines used in it became the material preparations needed in the early stage of the development of chemistry. Although the Taoist external Dan Huangbai art ultimately failed to achieve the desired purpose, but the Taoist jindan family tenacious practice and exploration activities, but objectively stimulate, promote the development of science in ancient China, Chinese people are proud of one of the four great inventions of black gunpowder is the first in the Tang Dynasty Taoist jindan family "ambrosia" experiments in the breeding, which shows that the Fangshi school of Chinese medicine since ancient times. Fangshi school of traditional Chinese medicine since ancient times has opened up the analysis of the composition of drugs and the application of the precedent.

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Dan, is a form of traditional Chinese medicine, many ancient and modern medicines are named "Dan" to show that the spirit of the Dan, such as the Heavenly King Dan, to the treasure of the Dan, Shan Hai Dan and so on. These prescriptions, mainly prepared by animal and plant medicine, and the original meaning of the Dan is not a thousand, just borrow the "Dan" name only ancient alchemy on the later generations of the profound impact, which can be seen.

Section 4: Tu Youyou's Nobel Prize Winner Marks the Beginning of the Modernization of TCM and Herbal Medicine

One: the overthrow of the "biodynamic theory" and the emergence of biochemistry

Traditional Chinese medicine and traditional Chinese medicine concoctions and Dan Dao method are related to the composition of drugs, but due to the limitations of the times a very sloppy state, the actual analysis and application of real concoctions is still in the stage of experience, and does not really recognize the fundamental mechanism of the composition of the drugs, Republic of China physician Yu Yunxiu is not not research in Chinese medicine, and advocate for the domestic drugs, commonly used in treating illnesses of traditional Chinese medicines, clinics in the opening of the chemical laboratory, research and development of Chinese medicinal preparations, and finishing the book of Chinese medicine prescriptions, but the book kind of analysis conclusion now also seems to be very sloppy and many mistakes. He opened a chemical research laboratory in his clinic, developed Chinese medicinal preparations, and organized Chinese medicinal formulae, and authored "Literature Study of Domestic Medicines" and "Ruminations on the Study of Chinese Medicinal Products". However, the conclusions of the analysis of the book seem to be very sloppy and erroneous at the present time because the biochemistry of the time was not mature enough, and we can't blame the ancients for their mistakes.

Biochemistry, as the name suggests, is the study of chemical processes in living organisms and is often referred to simply as biochemistry. It is primarily used to study the structure and function of components within cells, such as proteins, sugars, lipids, nucleic acids, and other biomolecules. For chemical biology, on the other hand, it focuses on the use of methods in chemical synthesis to answer questions related to those found in biochemistry.

The term Biochemistry appeared around the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th century, but its origins go back much further, and its early history was part of the early history of physiology and chemistry. In the 1880s, for example, A.-L. Lavoisier demonstrated that respiration was as much an oxidizing process as combustion, and almost simultaneously scientists discovered that photosynthesis was essentially the reverse process of plant respiration. In 1828, F. Wöhler synthesized urea, an organic substance, for the first time in the laboratory, which broke the view that organic matter could only be produced by living things, and dealt a major blow to the "theory of living organisms". 1860, L. Pasteur proved that fermentation was caused by microorganisms, but he believed that there must be a live yeast to cause fermentation. 1897, the Bichner brothers discovered that yeast was the same as oxidation, and almost at the same time, scientists discovered that photosynthesis was essentially a reverse process of plant respiration. In 1897, the Bichner brothers discovered that fermentation could be carried out by cell-free extracts of yeast, proving that such complex life activities could be carried out without living cells, and finally disproving the "theory of organisms. (J. Müller, a famous physiologist in the 19th century, also agreed with this view.) In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, H. Driesch made the most important development of the mechanistic theory. From a mechanistic point of view, he experimentally analyzed the early development of the sea urchin and discovered the remarkable regulatory capacity of the sea urchin egg. This led him to believe that the teleological theory of motility was unavoidable. He then vigorously advocated a mechanistic theory, proposing the existence in living things of a kind of reconciling isoenergetic lineage (i.e., a lineage in which a part can regulate the formation of a whole) such as that found in sea urchins and ascidian adults and a complex isoenergetic lineage (i.e., a lineage in which any part reproduces the same whole) such as that found in the ovary, and citing phenomena in humans. Later, he argued that there was a non-mechanical factor at work in these phenomena and called it vitality. He believed that this vitality was neither material nor energetic, was non-spatial, but could act in space. Many have criticized Driesch's theory of vitality, arguing that it is not a biological theory of the natural sciences. Especially from the standpoint of organismic theory, vitalism should usually be opposed to mechanistic theory. However, they both view the living faculty as a superposition (i.e., the properties or actions of a faculty are simply the result of the various properties or actions of the constituents of that faculty being superimposed on each other, and nothing else). This is an argument divorced from the nature of life. Other contemporaries of Driesch who were vitalists were G. Wolff, J. Rein-ke, and others. In contrast to Driesch's inscrutable vitality, they proposed a vitalism of the mind that concretized psychological factors as principles. (These emerging vitalisms are called neo-vitalisms to distinguish them from the classical, austere vitalisms that recognize vitality.)

Second: Artemisinin component research opens the way to the modernization of traditional Chinese medicine

Chinese medicine has been used for thousands of years, and it is also a long-term drug screening process, during which it has accumulated into a huge treasure trove of drugs, but the empirical drug knowledge is hardly universal, resulting in Chinese medicine has not been able to enter the process of modernization, and a large number of treasures of Chinese medicine have been dusted off in the traditional shackles and can not benefit mankind, Prof. Tu Youyou Artemisinin's research was also initially from the sea of traditional Chinese medicine, and in the 1960s, the malaria parasite had developed resistance to quinine drugs, which seriously affected the therapeutic effect. In the 1960s, the malaria parasite had already developed resistance to quinine drugs, which seriously affected the therapeutic effect. Tu Youyou, inspired by the Chinese classic 'After Elbow Preparation', successfully extracted artemisinin, which, together with its derivatives, can rapidly destroy Plasmodium vivax in the human body, and has a very good therapeutic effect on falciparum malaria. , a discovery that has been hailed as 'saving 200 million people'.

Artemisinin is a colorless needle-like crystal of sesquiterpene lactone with peroxy group extracted from the stem and leaves of the compound inflorescence plant Artemisia annua, with molecular formula C15H22O5, which was discovered by Chinese pharmacist Tu Youyou in 1971. Artemisinin is the most effective anti-malarial drug after ethylpyrimidine, chloroquine and primaquine, especially for cerebral malaria and chloroquine-resistant malaria, it has the characteristics of fast-acting and low-toxicity, and it was once said by the World Health Organization to be the "world's only effective malaria treatment drug". This shows that traditional Chinese medicine can greatly improve its therapeutic effect through the analysis and application of modern biological components, making it more universal.

(Artemisinin schematic diagram Source: Internet)

Similar to artemisia such Chinese medicine in traditional Chinese medicine is very rich, can be called a treasure trove of native medicinal herbs, if all can do like artemisinin as the efficacy of universal out, the huge treasure trove of native Chinese medicine will be opened, the future of the medical cause for the human contribution of the great can be imagined. Therefore, the study of artemisinin component opens the first step of modernization of traditional Chinese medicine.

Third: Tu Youyou's Nobel Prize Winner Starts the Modernization Process of Chinese Medicine

From the analysis of Chinese medicine theory of human body mechanism and traditional analysis of traditional Chinese medicine, we find that the so-called traditional Chinese medicine from the four levels of rationale, methodology, prescription and medicine are very similar to the modern medical theory, the traditional human physiology, anatomy and embryonic mechanism, if once decrypted, it will be found that the mechanism behind the mechanism of modern life sciences with the mechanism of the confluence; Chinese medicine once the analysis of Chinese medicine composition by modern biochemical explanation, it will be found that traditional Chinese medicine and modern pharmacological mechanism of the confluence of one, in fact, it is not. and modern pharmacological mechanisms converge as a whole, Chinese medicine human body theory mechanism and the theory of Chinese medicine mechanism of the two at the same time with the modern science convergence, on the surface as if Chinese medicine was disintegrated, in fact, not, but also needless to fear, the above analysis of the content of traditional Chinese medicine is not only the modernization of the theory of traditional Chinese medicine Shidian school, the theory of Chinese medicine Fangshi school behind the theory of how to self-control of the living body of the so-called " The real way" waiting for the future demystification of the resumption of the line, so I learned that the process of modernization of traditional Chinese medicine can not be dismantled Chinese medicine, but only for the future of traditional Chinese medicine to really resume the line to open the precedent.

On October 8, 2015, Chinese scientist Tu Youyou was awarded the 2015 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, becoming the first Chinese to win the Nobel Prize in Natural Sciences. Tu Youyou, who has been engaged in the research of Chinese medicine and the combination of Chinese and Western medicines for many years, creatively developed the new anti-malarial drugs - Artemisinin and Dihydroartemisinin, which gained 100% inhibition rate of malaria parasites, and pointed out a direction for the Chinese medicine to go to the world. Imagine that thousands of artemisinin-like drugs will be developed along the research path of Prof. Tu, isn't it the beginning of the modernization process of Chinese medicine?

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