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Will someone please explain TCM in plain terms?

Will someone please explain TCM in plain terms?

Chinese medicine is an extremely advanced life science. At present, science knows very little about the phenomenon of life. At present, science can only roughly understand the human body's muscles, blood vessels, organs and tissues and other observed superficial phenomena, as well as genes, genetics, immunity and other microscopic areas are also understood, but also become the basis and means of modern medicine.

But the current scientific understanding of human life is far from adequate, the gap is huge. It is even difficult to observe because it is too complex.

How do consciousness and the body interact with each other? How do genes work specifically to grow just the right variety of human organs and tissues? How does the immune system work? Why can it fight all diseases and protect the body, why some people's immune system can't fight diseases, and so on. There are many details that are not clear, and can only be known roughly, so when faced with new pathogens, science and medicine are often at their wits' end. That is, we also know what virus or germs, know that the immune system and viruses and germs in a fierce "war", but there is no effective way to successfully intervene to help the body's immune system to fight against pathogens, moreover, can not give the body to re-create a set of immune system out. As in the case of AIDS destroys the human immune system after a person is finished, science and technology can not help. This proves that the current science and technology on the human immune system only know one does not know the other, only a general understanding of understanding, is no way.

Chinese medicine certainly does not recognize the mystery of human life, but it recognizes the phenomenon of human life from a different perspective. TCM originated from the Yellow Emperor's Internal Canon, a mysterious unknown possibly super-scientific source.

It is not a specific understanding of the specific operations of the cells of the various organs of the human body, but a general understanding of the phenomenon of life from the point of view of philosophy and even the mystery of the origin of life.

Positive and evil, dampness, cold, heat, wind and dryness, as well as yin and yang and the five elements are used to describe the overall functioning of human life.

The cause of human disease is viewed as an obstacle to the functioning of human life due to internal or external causes that lead to disease.

Chinese medicine identifies a perfect system of human life, but this system can be affected by various internal and external factors under the influence of problems, obstacles, and so there are diseases.

External causes in the theory of Chinese medicine is the external evil, and with the understanding of modern scientific medicine, it is the invasion of various pathogens.

Internal causes are the various bad habits of a person that lead to a state of sub-health. There are many hidden problems in the body.

The human body, as a perfect super-technology system, will "self-regulate" and "self-repair" when it encounters problems and disorders. In modern science and technology in Western medicine theory is the human body wonderful perfect immune operation. But the human body's self-regulating immune system, sometimes "can't cope". This is because each person's health status of the body's immune response is different, some people's immune system is weak, some people's immune system is strong. The weaker ones will struggle and have difficulty coping with more pathogenic invasions.

In the absence of external help, where the body's own systems cannot cope, the person manifests a worsening of the condition, and in severe cases, death.

Chinese medicine is also based on the theory of "big system" that human life is associated with nature, and utilizes plants and animals in nature as medicinal herbs for "reasonable intervention" in the struggle between the human body and diseases. To achieve the purpose of curing diseases and saving lives. This is also a marvelous philosophy of the large system of the natural world where life is interrelated. There are poisonous things in nature that make people sick and poisoned, and there are also medicinal and nutritional materials that help people.

Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM), on the other hand, screens and organizes all kinds of natural plant and animal or mineral materials, and intervenes effectively and rationally in the human body system with appropriate medicines based on its special theories when a person is sick, so as to achieve the purpose of allowing the human body to overcome the disease.

TCM has a holistic view and a whole set of theories to guide drug selection. Therefore, for any unknown disease, TCM can provide better intervention and treatment.

And for Western medicine, which has developed on the basis of modern technological understanding, [there is not yet any theory to guide the screening of therapeutic drugs].

So western medicine for screening drugs can only use the "most primitive and clumsy" way, one by one to test the water. If it works, they will write it down and use it in the future for this disease! Ineffective, and then looking around for other drugs, like a blind cat running around to be able to run into a dead rat on the luck of success! I'm not sure I can do that.

That's why Western medicine is basically helpless against new pathogens for new diseases.

Western medicine has its advantages, too, with its set of cure-alls, namely hormones, saline, glucose, vaccines, and all sorts of machinery. It's really useful in emergencies too.

And a vaccine, once it's been worked out, can also be very effective in eliminating infectious diseases that haven't mutated.

New pathogens, viruses or germs, Western medicine through modern technology microscopic observation, can see clearly what the germs virus is like. But what drugs can be used to kill the virus, or to help the body's immunity to kill the virus, Western medicine is a blank slate! Western medicine is a blank slate. Western medicine: I know what the virus, microscopic observation to find to see it, but just do not know what to deal with it! [Because there is no theory to guide Western medicine screening to find effective drugs].

But in Chinese medicine, it is possible to find more or less effective many drugs out immediately through the TCM theory of dialectical treatment!

Although this theory has been criticized as "unscientific" by Chinese medicine practitioners, it has saved many lives!

Just as with the Mendeleev periodic table there is a theoretical guide to the discovery of all the unknown elements, just as with the theory of gravity there is a guide to the discovery of the unobservable planets. This is how powerful theoretical guidance is.

Why is the dialectical theory of Chinese medicine effective in finding therapeutic drugs? It is because TCM views the human body as a system, and when it encounters a disease, the human system and immunity will have various reactions. Chinese medicine summarizes the various reactions of the human body and describes them in terms of sensory experiences such as deficiency, cold, dampness, heat, etc. These various reactions reflect the body's overall resistance to disease. These various reactions reflect the overall situation of the body's fight against disease. There are both immune and viral conditions. In addition, Chinese medicine in advance summarizes and records the various effects of many natural medicines on people, but also with yin and yang, ventilation and drainage, and so on to be summarized. To what kind of reaction characteristics of the disease, the use of targeted what kind of characteristics of the drug.

This results in a precise search for an effective drug. This is the current science current western medicine can not do.

What kind of virus? What kind of germs? Chinese medicine do not understand do not recognize. But it does not matter, and do not need to understand, Chinese medicine only observe the patient's response, is the deficiency of cold, dampness and heat and so on on the line!

But it takes quite a high level of experience and understanding to do so. Because many times the situation is very complex, not simple deficiency, cold, dampness and heat, but intricate, even complex, nested, hidden symptoms. But a misjudgment, is the wrong medicine does not cure people but harm the results. Therefore, Chinese medicine practitioners need to dialectical treatment means to reach the standard at least to start. This point is difficult to learn Chinese medicine is difficult to fine. Not as good as Western medicine, learning physiology and biology, will be some medical equipment, according to the map of Soyi prescription on the line.

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Chinese and Western medicine have their own advantages and disadvantages. The advantage of Chinese medicine is the dialectical search for medicine, the human body disorders caused by a variety of unknown diseases have therapeutic advantages. Western medicine is a meticulous search for the cause of the disease, the search for the active ingredient, and surgery, medical equipment and so on.

For example, the discovery of vitamins and antimicrobials has allowed Western medicine to "take care of" a number of related diseases. Chinese medicine, on the other hand, is limited by the disadvantages of modern technology and is not as good as Western medicine at treating non-human disorders, such as a lack of certain vitamins or severe physical injuries.

The discovery of Artemisinin, on the other hand, is the success of the combination of the advantages of Chinese medicine in searching for medicines plus the modernization of science and technology, as if it were a Western medicine means, and it can be said to be a successful example of the combination of Chinese and Western medicine.

The success of the fight against malaria was achieved through the search for medicine by Chinese medicine practitioners and the analysis and extraction of the active ingredients by means of chemical science and technology. The black Chinese medicine practitioners attribute this entirely to Western medical practitioners, which is in fact an ulterior motive to play the trick of distorting the facts and sophistry, desperately trying to cover up the role of Chinese medicine practitioners, so as to achieve the purpose of continuing to blacken the role of Chinese medicine practitioners.

In fact, Chinese medicine has the most credit, because there is the first to locate to the specific plant of Artemisia annua (the ancient Chinese medical book named Artemisia annua), and at the same time implied that the active ingredient is afraid of high temperature properties. For the extraction of artemisinin clearly guide the direction! And the other is also modern physical and chemical science and technology means of credit, western medicine's credit is afraid to rank last it!

No this way of extracting the active ingredient is only suitable for conditions that can be treated by a single drug element. If it is a complex combination of conditions that require multiple drugs, I am afraid that it will be difficult.

Thanks for answering the following.

Chinese medicine practitioners diagnose diseases by looking, asking, cutting and listening.

A machine commonly used in Western medicine to diagnose diseases.

Chinese medicine is tailored to the individual's needs.

Western medicine is used in a thousand different ways.

Chinese medicine treats illnesses from the inside out, hitting the surface.

Western medicine treats disease from the surface.

The TCM results are slow and methodical.

All were eventually cured completely.

Western medicine results are immediate.

Sometimes there are recurring after-effects.

The cost of Chinese medicine is very little.

Western medicine costs Chinese medicine several times.

Chinese and Western medicine have their own strengths and weaknesses.

The ultimate goal of healing the sick and saving lives.

Chinese medicine is based on the theory of yin and yang, five elements, internal organs and meridians, and commonly used yin and yang, surface and inside, the real, cold and hot eight outline identification of disease, with sweat, spit, down, and, warm, clear, eliminate, and complement the eight methods of treatment of disease. It is the crystallization of human diagnosis and treatment of diseases and health care.

Chinese medicine diagnosis is really frugal single, 'look, smell, ask and cut' to determine the source of the disease, eighteen opposite to remember, Shuai through the pathology to find the root cause.

Chinese medicine is the former people set the world and natural phenomena into one, exposition of each other, in order to survive and passed down! The way of self-help! A variety of plants and animals choose to live on the ground, choose the environment into the former according to the sunrise and sunset, the four weather changes and determine the yin and yang, the five elements used to record the dietary changes in the body and make adjustments, Chinese medicine as the treasure trove of the Chinese nation inherited for thousands of years, not without the accumulation of generations of forefathers, preserved to the present, naturally, has its own strengths!

If understood in this way, the earth is a whole, and all plants and animals bathe in its embrace! The rain and the dew are evenly distributed! As a flower plant, without sunshine and rain, it will not grow bright and colorful, without strong roots and human care will be infested by pests! Such as a fruit tree, with man-made fertilization, weed removal and photosynthesis day and night to have fruitful, the ancients have sunrise and sunset, admonishing the human body is the same, more exercise, more contact with the four seasons of the sun, sunny, open-minded, set the essence of the sun and moon natural growth, to the nature of the grains and cereals for living! Condition your body with all the plants of the four seasons! All animals know that eating the wrong things will find the antidote, rats will look for bath soap, cats will look for cat's claw grass, horse poop eggs, people are smart animals, the use of all plants and animals and nature grows, complement each other, each other, but also recorded in the book, passed down from generation to generation, with all the yin and yang, five elements of the birth of the Yi Yi reasoning to make the living environment comfortable! Utilizing nature's plants to regulate diet! This is Chinese medicine! Wherever there are Chinese people, there is Chinese medicine! It may not necessarily shine, but recognize Chinese medicine and know how to use it! Cure illnesses and prevent illnesses!

Looking, sniffing, and treating the symptoms with the right medication is simple and inexpensive. Folk treatment is even simpler and easy to use.

[Original] Chinese medicine is a great wisdom and science about the prevention, treatment and rehabilitation of human diseases. It is necessary to study, practice and explore seriously in order to have insights. Insight into the machine and its micro.

The current state of medical care worldwide (excluding my country and a very few others) is generally characterized by passive treatment, i.e., human beings are always being led by the nose by things like bacteria, viruses, and financial interests.

Passive treatment has caused a great waste of medical resources to the country and the people. ......

This is particularly true of the current Western countries in Europe and the United States.

Drugs are worse than tigers!

Bacteria and viruses are gradually transforming into the superimposed effect of drugs (the increase of various basic diseases caused by drugs in the front plus the toxic side effects of drugs in the treatment of new coronary pneumonia in the back), i.e., drugs are harming the human body, especially more than bacteria and viruses.

Our country, on the other hand, thanks to the wise leadership of the Party and the Government, mobilized Chinese medicine and herbal treatment in a timely manner, effectively avoiding drug damage and controlling the epidemic.

Although the current epidemic is still infected by foreign cases and recurring in localized areas, there is a combination of Chinese and Western medicine to prevent and control the epidemic. However, with the combination of Chinese and Western medicine and the prevention and control of Chinese medicine, there will not be the kind of tragic situation in the West, Europe and the United States.

Therefore, at this time, it is particularly appropriate to develop traditional Chinese medicine and turn passive treatment into active treatment, i.e., focusing on prevention as a whole, supporting the right and dispelling the wrong, and dredging the bloodstream. Correct treatment concept is the basic guarantee for the success of epidemic prevention.

Simply put, the complex human body is like a comprehensive processing plant, when its circuits, waterways, excretion of waste pipes are open, the energy, oxygen, nutrients and water from nature and a variety of restorative materials, will be a steady stream of delivery to all parts of the human body, to complete the biochemical manufacturing and human body self-repair, the defense system in order to effectively protect against the invasion of foreign microorganisms and damage.

This state is ensured by heat (power). This heat is not more than the body's physiological limits (i.e., the temperature is maintained at 36 degrees ∽ 37 degrees or so). Not when it is too high, not when it is too low.

When the body temperature is below 34 degrees or less, the body is cold and unable to fulfill its functions and functional physiological activities properly.

When the body temperature is low, such as 28 degrees below, for the human body, it is called extreme cold, the human body, including blood flow, including all physiological activities will stop. The brain stops functioning because it lacks the necessary oxygen and heat. The human body will die as a result.

Yin and Yang, Cold and Heat are derived from this. ......

Those who are mechanically savvy or can drive a motorized vehicle will understand this most easily.

Chinese medicine is complex and it can be simplified. This is its greatest strength.

Yin, Yang and Five Elements are part of Chinese culture. Ancient people used it to deduce and predict things, which is the heavenly opportunity, and used it to deduce diseases, which is the disease mechanism. A good Chinese medicine practitioner must have a bit of the so-called wisdom, because the heavenly chances cannot be divulged due to the fact that they are really not understandable, and the same goes for the disease mechanism. Therefore, to describe Chinese medicine in one sentence, it is the Great Taoist Way that is simple, and it is difficult to know what is easy to do. It and modern medical science experiments are two different things, esoteric and mysterious, so it is not accepted by modern people. But modern people through scientific observation and can not be explained, for modern medicine, Chinese medicine is profound really can be described as postmodern.

With the accelerated updating of science and technology, the amount of knowledge in Western medicine is updated once every few years. On the contrary, Chinese medicine is still studying the things of the ancients, a book on typhoid fever and an internal scripture, which does not contain a lot of content. But for those in the field, once you become enlightened, you learn the dialectic method, which contains a lot of whimsical ideas for treating diseases. And it's all lessons that previous generations have learned over a lifetime. It's kind of like Go, where the rules are simple and the sophisticates have it all figured out. Why is it like that. Or yin and yang five elements, because it is not large, but the closest to the true mile, this is the so-called Tao, the road to simplicity?

Chinese medicine must require enlightenment. It is one thing to take care of the public and another to cure people. That is why university students of Chinese medicine colleges and universities, who have studied Chinese medicine for five years and graduated for decades, know very little about clinical practice, and some of them even stand on the opposite side of Chinese medicine. On the contrary, certain Western medical doctors are also prone to be interested in Chinese medicine in their clinical practice. Therefore, the artificial boundaries of Chinese and Western medicine should not be, the head of Western medicine to stay in Chinese medicine and Chinese medicine to stay in Western medicine are contrary to the current reality of the integration of Chinese and Western medicine.

I don't want to explain Chinese medicine with superficial reasoning, because there are too many people explaining it. I will say a few points for many people may be the concept of subversion: First, Chinese medicine is not empirical medicine, Western medicine is empirical medicine (experimental medicine). Second, the problem of the decline of Chinese medicine is not because of the lack of progress with the times, but because of the lack of inheritance. Third, Chinese medicine does not need to be combined with Western medicine, but with modern technology. Fourth, the yin-yang and five elements are too esoteric and subtle, but they can be regarded as a very practical classification. Fifth, all plants are Chinese medicines, and those that are neutral can be used as food, while those that are partial can be corrected to cure diseases. Sixth, the use of chemically synthesized drugs under the guidance of Chinese medicine theory is also a traditional Chinese medicine, under the guidance of the Western medical way of thinking of traditional Chinese medicine is no longer a traditional Chinese medicine.

Thanks to the subject. A: The reasoning is very simple, only two words: balance! Chinese medicine is so, Western medicine is so. Chinese medicine is based on conditioning, treatment of the disease, Western medicine is based on biochemical drugs, anti-inflammatory pain. A balance of yin and yang, the five viscera and six bowels, meridians, endocrine; a balance of electrolytes, acidity and alkalinity in the body, these aspects of the balance, people will be basically healthy.

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