Is the Yin-Yang and Five Elements theory of Chinese medicine pseudoscience?
I do not say anything else, first of all, an example: I was a child in junior high school when the toothache could not eat, just the family invited the doctor to my grandmother acupuncture, the doctor said to me that nothing I give you two needles, finished in my face two needles, and never hurt again. Two years ago, teeth bleeding, go to the dental hospital, the doctor did not say anything, just give me drilling to fill the tooth, the results of what did not fill a good, a tooth back to the bad, now missing a tooth. And the year before last, the chest is always uncomfortable, Western medicine is bronchitis, but eat anti-inflammatory drugs on a little better, do not eat and uncomfortable, to see a traditional Chinese medicine, the doctor said that the trachea is a little bit inflamed, but the most important thing is that the heart is a little bit of a problem, the end of the prescription of traditional Chinese medicine ate a good. Do not understand do not come out nonsense, Chinese medicine itself is not easy to inherit, there are a lot of crooks, but more hateful on you guys do not understand but also a day to clamor things, many are you ignorant and stupid things ruined, but also a day to think they are. Chinese medicine is to look at the human being as a whole, a certain part of the disease, to find out where it is the focus of the disease, not a headache to cure the headache, but to find the root cause of the disease. Ignorance is not scary, what is scary is ignorance and stupidity, many ruined because of ignorance and stupidity. Hateful! Hateful! Hateful! Originally to be sent to the above one of the answer, the results of the crown, said the argument, the results of the ban me, can not send, had to send here, here to say a word, huh! Shameless.
There is no scientific basis or scientific rationale for the yin-yang and five elements of Chinese medicine.
The basic theories of Chinese medicine mainly include the doctrines of yin and yang, the five elements, luck, organs, meridians and collaterals, as well as the causes of disease, disease mechanisms, diagnosis, identification, treatment rules and regulations, prevention, and health maintenance.
Yin and yang is an ancient Chinese philosophical category, Chinese medicine uses the concept of the unity of yin and yang to describe the human body up and down, internal and external parts of the human body, as well as the human body's life activities with nature, society and the complexity of the external environment between the links between the relative balance of yin and yang unity of opposites is to maintain and ensure the basis of the human body's normal activities, such as the balance of the dislocation and destruction of the human body will lead to the occurrence of disease development and the impact on the normal activities of life.
The doctrine of the five elements uses five philosophical categories such as wood, fire, earth, gold and water to summarize the attributes of different things in the objective world, and uses the dynamic pattern of the five elements to illustrate the interconnectedness of things and the law of transformation.
Chinese medicine mainly uses the five elements to explain the functional connection between the five organs and six bowels, as well as the mechanism of disease development in the event of an imbalance of the internal organs, which is also used to guide the treatment of diseases of the internal organs.
It can be seen that the grounding basis of Chinese medicine belongs to the philosophical category, which is based on yin and yang and the five elements.
The reason why Yin-Yang and Wu Xing is only a philosophy but not a science is that it does not abide by the scientific methods and rules such as "objectivity, logic, empirical evidence, repeatable test", and it does not have the "exclusivity" and "falsifiability" of scientific theories. Falsifiability", in the face of human disease, a very objective thing, can not be based on the theory of yin and yang, five elements to come up with an "exclusionary" explanation, in the end, what is a disorder, what is too much, what is not and what is the virtual reality? There is no quantifiable standard.
Treatment of the same patient, Wang said that the spleen and stomach, but Li said and very it, both based on the same yin and yang five elements, but who is right and who is wrong is not clear.
The doctrine of Yin-Yang and Five Elements lacks such research methods and rules that can help us get a consensus, and such generalized, emotional, and vague philosophical musings are not sufficient to guide the study of specific objective laws of the human body.
Chinese medicine is our five thousand years of Chinese national treasure culture, not anyone any country say positive on the positive, say pseudo on the pseudo, after thousands of years of history has proved that until now, China's Chinese medicine is very great.
Yin and Yang five elements, is a symbol of the ancients to the combination of man and nature, can not say that it is not scientific, you turn it into one, two, three, four, five can, but the five elements do argue the function of the five viscera, the relationship between each other, that a viscera problems will involve that viscera, traditional Chinese medicine through the five viscera changes, that is, the birth of the grams in the order of the treatment program, the five elements can play the role of this role, would have been considered scientific enough.
Chinese medicine from theory to practice are inseparable from the yin and yang five elements! Yin and Yang five elements in the treatment of disease diagnosis and treatment is one of the ways to find the root of the problem, my practical experience tells me that in the five viscera and six bowels of the diagnosis is particularly important. For example; in November 2014 there is a patient mother was introduced to bring a nine-year-old girl to the pharmacy to find me, handbag took out more than thirty municipal and provincial hospital test list. Complaints: from the girl six years old a cold began, so far in the hospital treatment for nearly three years, spent sixteen million yuan, is not cured! From the lookout: the child is tall and thin, dark skin color, two eyes are insufficient, (blinking and shaking head) head constantly shaking (about 30 times a minute shaking), the four diagnosis and references were diagnosed as a liver yin deficiency evidence of blood deficiency moving wind. Wind attacks the Liver and Wood, and wind is the main driver! Liver theory of treatment and medicine a total of more than 60 doses (nearly 3 months less than) all the symptoms of the settlement, (a total of less than 80O0 yuan) so far, sound, excellent academic performance (especially the cartoon)! Ask, without the five elements theory of identification can cure? There are many others that I won't cite here. The believer is true!
As it stands now, the theory of yin-yang and five elements has no application in science and production practice, nor is it likely to have any application. No matter how many years go by, the yin-yang and the five elements cannot be applied one day, unless it is no longer in our universe. In our universe, everything needs to work according to the laws of physical or chemical changes, not according to supernatural forces. Yin and Yang, the five elements, is only the ancient simple philosophical concepts, is backward cultural thinking, and science does not occur any connection. Taking yin and yang and the five elements to explain personnel changes, in addition to far-fetched, there is no convincing explanation. The reason why science is unimpeded in the world is because it is "useful", for example, in the courtroom, there is a need to apply a lot of scientific means to testify. You say you did not break into the house, but the scene left your DNA, there are video cameras as evidence. In this way, due to the intervention of scientific evidence, you will be difficult to escape the net of justice. And yin and yang and five elements are precisely useless things. Have you ever seen an assembly line for food production using the five elements of yin and yang? Does using the five elements of yin and yang for a food production line make the food more non-perishable? Does it extend the shelf life of the food?
Others say that the Yin-Yang and the Five Elements can guide Chinese medicine. However, Chinese medicine itself is not within the modern scientific system. Assuming that Chinese medicine is really effective, it is the result of practice, the triumph of experience, and has nothing to do with the guidance of yin and yang and the five elements. Tu Youyou's Artemisinin, which is a chemical medicine (the instruction manual also states that it is a standard chemical medicine), has saved countless lives. Although Tu Youyou said that the prescription was inspired by Chinese medicine texts, from beginning to end, the development process was done in strict accordance with the methods of modern medicine, and the guidance of yin and yang and the five elements was not introduced at all. Even the modernization of Chinese medicine must be guided by modern scientific concepts, and the five elements of yin and yang must be discarded.
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A false theory, which the ancients thought contained profound truths, i.e., they thought it was true, and of course had a lot of applications, based on the yin and yang and the five elements, made up a lot of theories. (Of course, there were no scientific applications, because science was never born in ancient China.)
The first application of the five elements in fact is the warring states period zou yan's five virtues of the end of the theory, it is a political theory, the rise of the dynasty that is, who do the son of heaven is decided by heaven, the new dynasty with the previous generation is the relationship between the five elements of the birth of grams. Because the ancients and the five elements with a variety of things, such as east and west, south, north and south of the direction, black and white, yellow, green and red five colors, heart, liver, spleen, lungs and kidneys five organs, so the ancient dynasties according to what they thought the "life of the five elements," to the provisions of the revered clothing color.
Zou Yan said "five virtues from the unsurpassed, Yu earth, summer wood, Yin gold, Zhou fire", Yu (Shun), Xia, Yin, Zhou in accordance with the earth, wood, gold, fire, water, in turn, "Where the emperor will rise, the sky must first see Xiang Hu the next people," the rise of the dynasty must be preceded by The will of heaven, that is, part of the Chinese doctrine of the induction of heaven and man, the unity of man and heaven. This argument is generally believed by the ancients, for example, Zhu Yuanzhang in the Ming Dynasty set the format of the imperial decree began "by the emperor of the sky to carry on the luck of the imperial edict said" the so-called "carry on the luck", that is, following the day of the "moral" luck.
Of course, the Yin-Yang and the Five Elements are themselves a misconception. As for national governance and social change, it is even more unlikely that they have developed according to them. Although the Yin-Yang Five Elements has its historical value, so-called plain materialism, it is rapidly becoming attached to a charm, and in effect becoming mysticism again.
This initial error, a great error, was not pointed out, recognized and denied, causing future generations to blindly worship this error, giving birth to a whole host of what are actually even more erroneous understandings, turning it into one of history's great jokes. But that's okay, who hasn't made mistakes, as long as we recognize them today.
Anyway, I will not blindly believe in what Western medicine, usually health is the right thing. Chengdu has a famous hospital is to drag the small disease to serious, the serious disease into a very serious, and then under the critical notice, so that the patient's family to get money. I suffered two times, a drunk, hung up the emergency room, the results of the hospital simply do not care, has been delayed for a day and a night, almost no one, hospitalized for five days, in that hospital spent more than 50,000 yuan. Once the family to that hospital to check the body, a check hospital notice immediately hospitalized, the results of a hospital in almost no one, but also said that the liver does not work, spent hundreds of thousands of dollars, the hospital also said to immediately find a source of liver for the liver, and finally had no choice but to be transferred to the Sichuan Medical after more than ten days of medical treatment, the condition of the turnaround, and then eight days the patient can finally be discharged.
Write a real thing, the summer of 1994, the day is very hot, outside the work of my brother suddenly said leg numbness, and then half of the body can not move, I called a few people to carry my brother to the kang, to find the township doctor to see that it is a serious kind of wind, you have to go to the big hospitals to see a few thousand dollars to hear, can not help around to borrow money, in the road to borrow money to meet the Sun Zhanyin, a local Langzhong talked about my brother's disease, he said that I went to see Look, came to the home Sun Langzhong picked up my brother's feet with a hand hard to the top, said can be treated, I went to his home to bring the silver needle and sprinkle essence lamp, immediately began the line of needles, said the use of the fire needle, after two days more than the treatment of Liao Liao brother can go down to the ground, ate the autonomy of the traditional Chinese medicine he gave half a year later, all well, which is the Chinese medicine of the magic of the place, the truth in every word, such as the false since the disease a year!
Thanks for the invitation. Comprehensive description of the content is too much, limited to space can only briefly answer! First, the doctrine of yin and yang is the earliest dialectical thinking of mankind. China's ancient working people by observing a variety of things phenomena, the universe is divided into two categories of yin and yang, which is the earliest simple human materialism and dialectics! The law of change of yin and yang in nature summarized by it is the early embodiment of the philosophical thought of unity of opposites in the field of modern philosophy! Yin and Yang doctrine point of view first appeared in the Zhouyi 64 hexagrams, by 192 yang lines 192 yin lines composed of 64 hexagrams, everywhere there is yin and yang, everywhere is the change of yin and yang! In the system of yin and yang doctrine, there is a total of yin and yang attributes, yin and yang mutual root, yin and yang opposites, yin and yang, yin and yang, yin and yang transformation of these five aspects. When there is heaven, there is earth; when there is black, there is white; when there is male, there is female; when there is life, there is death. When the sun goes down, the moon comes up; when the moon goes down, the sun comes up; when the cold goes down, the summer comes up; when the summer goes down, the cold comes up. Who dares to deny this law of mutual transformation of yin and yang?O Secondly, the whole world recognizes the rationality of the doctrine of yin and yang! It has always been held in the realm of thought in the Western world that it is God who made all things. In exploring the origin of life from this point of view, a dead end was reached! When we turn to the Eastern culture, we find that the Zhou Yi, there is heaven and earth, and then there is the present point of all things in line with the origin of life. Heaven is yang and kun is yin, male is yang and female is yin, male is yang and female is yin. With the yin and yang to have all things. Look at human beings, there are men and women married to have children and grandchildren to continue, look at animals and insects, there are male and female mating in order to pass the seed, look at plants, there are male and female stamen pollination, in order to bear seeds, all these kinds of things, there is no unity of yin and yang, combined with the transformation of the world, where is the world of all things it? Westerners are convinced, we still have what reason to deny it?O Third, the five elements represent the five popular gas in the sky, sometimes also refers to the five basic substances in nature. The five elements are explicitly first seen in the populist Shangshu and Hongfan, one is water, the other is fire, the third is wood, the fourth is gold, and the fifth is earth. 五行学说中的五行相生,五行相克,五行乘旺,五行反侮等观点,充满了朴素的辩证思维!! The theory of Chinese medicine is the five elements of the various changes in the birth of grams, translated into five flavors of biochemistry, such as water salty fire bitter wood acid gold Xin earth sweet, etc., and then a variety of herbs according to the taste classification, to determine the salty into the kidneys, bitter into the heart, acid into the liver, Xin into the lungs, sweet into the stomach can be efficacy. Doctors according to look, smell, ask, cut (pulse), to determine the disease, and then according to the yin and yang, surface and inside, the real, cold and hot this dialectic eight outlines, and then according to the cold should be hot, hot evidence should be cold, deficiency evidence should be complementary, the real evidence should be drained and other medical theory for treatment! From this, we can see that in Chinese medicine, not only contains a high degree of scientific knowledge, but also has a rather profound philosophical concepts!
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