Hi, I am a TCM clinician and have been in the profession for more than 10 years, and this is how I see this issue.

Chinese medicine has a simple empirical side and a theoretical complexity.

I think Chinese medicine was first based on the summary of life experiences and discoveries. For example, there are still a lot of healing experiences circulating in the folklore. These experiences are not supported by TCM theories.

So a lot of folk folklore practitioners will also cure the disease, they cure the disease with some experience formula or single formula, partial prescription like.

These empirical rooms or single formulas only need, this experience is enough, and do not need, yin and yang, five elements, these theories.

I think that these concepts and theories of yin and yang and the five elements were applied to Chinese medicine only after the ancient Chinese people, who constantly summarized the laws of nature and turned these recognized laws into theories and worldviews.

Yin and Yang Five Elements is not just a theory of Chinese medicine. It is an ancient understanding of nature and society, summarized, concepts, and laws. Sort of an ancient Chinese worldview.

These, the laws and experiences are summarized, then applied to Chinese medicine, and then continuously improved through practice. It has become what Chinese medicine is now, empirical and theoretical. There are theories, but there is a need for clinical practice.

Experience comes from clinical practice. Theory comes from the laws summarized and refined after continuous practical experience. These two complement each other and there is no contradiction.

Clinical experience can promote the whole summary of theory, and after the summary of theory, it can expand the scope of clinical application.

Chinese medicine is a discipline with theoretical understanding and clinical practice. Detached from the theory or detached from the clinical, can not be called Chinese medicine.

The problem is that we have to clarify the origin of Chinese medicine, and then position Chinese medicine. Chinese medicine arose in the ancient times, the ancient ancestors of Chinese ancestors in the ancient times, in order to clarify the source.

All things in the universe existed before human beings, and human survival comes first, not to mention development, so one must first view, view all things in the universe.

Everything in the universe is presented as an elephant, wordless, a wordless book, so to speak. Human beings must read the words out of this wordless heavenly book into a . A heavenly book with words.

It is inconceivable to read out a wordless heavenly book on everything in the universe and to read it as a heavenly book with words. However, only the Chinese have done it.

..... A Tao Te Ching and an I Ching is the heavenly book with words for everything in the universe. The practice of the existence of life in the heavenly book is Chinese medicine, and the positioning of Chinese medicine is Shenghui medicine.

Not only do we Chinese, but the whole of mankind, B to aliens if there are any, but all Wei Xie have the word Tian Shu private Chinese medicine to the practice.

Shi. If you keep saying no to Chinese medicine, you're either brain-dead, unenlightened, or something else.

The Chinese Yin-Yang and Five Elements, as philosophical ideas, run through all Chinese disciplines, and medicine is certainly not exempt from them. Chinese medicine has experience and practice at the top, and the dialectical philosophy of the five elements at the bottom, with a lack of scientific theory in the middle. But because of the philosophical support at the bottom, in the absence of precise technology, there is no such fallacy as in the West that the devil is the cause of human illness. On the whole, Chinese medicine is more effective in grasping the causes of old age, sickness and death and the means of treatment, with some of the theories further elucidated by science and some of the practices supplemented and refined by modern medicine.

"Does Chinese medicine originate from the five elements of yin and yang, or is it a purely empirical medicine?" My personal opinion is that "it is derived from the five elements of yin and yang". Another point of view is that a practitioner who does not master the Five Elements of Yin and Yang will not be able to progress.

First, the meridian qi and blood, elevation and sinking with yin and yang, cold and heat movement and static transformation.

Second, the drug attributed to the meridian, the surface and the virtual reality of the air mouth people welcome all in the five elements of the birth system.

Experience is indispensable for medicines, and even more so for formulas. But theory must dominate experience. Theory cannot be practiced without practice, and medicine cannot be used without practice.

If the herbalist is skeptical, the progress will be small. If there is genuine respect there will also be wide enlightenment.

Some people have mentioned witch doctors, but it's too early to draw conclusions when Chinese medicine is not well practiced.