Origin and Development of Traditional Chinese Medicine

Traditional Chinese medicine is a general term for all ethnic medicines in our country, including Han and minority medicines. It reflects the Chinese nation's understanding of life, health and disease. It is a medical system with a long history and unique theoretical and technical methods.

As early as thousands of years ago in ancient times, our ancestors accumulated some knowledge of medicine in their daily diet and struggle with nature. People found that after eating some animals and plants have the effect of reducing or eliminating pain, this is the origin of understanding of traditional Chinese medicine. With the evolution of human beings, they began to look for drugs and methods to prevent and treat diseases purposefully. The so-called "Shennong tasted all kinds of herbs" and "the same source of medicine and food" were the true portrayal at that time.

The culture of traditional Chinese medicine is a summary of the experience of medicine in the past dynasties, including the five flavors of medicine, the king and the minister, the yin and yang of medicine, the anti-treatment, the neutralization of medicine, and the use of medicine, such as the use of soldiers, etc., which has made great contributions to the development of pharmacology in later generations. China has a vast territory, so there are also traditional Chinese medicine cultures with many unique regional characteristics: medicine, northern medicine, Huaiyao, Zhejiang medicine, Jiangnan medicine, Sichuan medicine, Yunnan-Guizhou medicine, broad medicine, western medicine, Tibetan medicine and other ten authentic traditional Chinese medicine production areas have accumulated hundreds of years of experience in artificial cultivation of traditional Chinese medicine. The unique processing technology of traditional Chinese medicine aims at reducing toxicity and increasing efficiency. Cannon, roasting, simmering, stir-frying, calcining, refining, system, degree, flying, fu, Xuan, Zhen, Jin, pound, exposure, dew and evil spirit all reflect the profound background of traditional Chinese medicine culture.

Tang Dynasty

Sun Simiao, a physician in the Tang Dynasty, collected all his life's energy and wrote "Preparing for Urgent Thousand Gold and Thousand Gold Wings" and "Thousand Gold Wings". Among them, "Thousand Gold Wings" is divided into 30 volumes, with 5300 poems combined. "Thousand Gold Wings" also contains 30 volumes and 2571 poems. The two volumes of classics all discuss various clinical subjects, acupuncture, diet therapy, prevention, health preservation, etc. Sun Simiao also put forward the "sincerity of great doctors", which embodies the pursuit of Chinese medicine for the subtlety, sincerity, and sincerity of words and deeds. It is the concentrated expression of the noble moral sentiment and outstanding civilized wisdom of the Chinese nation in Chinese medicine. It is the culture of Chinese medicine. Core value concept.

Song Dynasty

The Song Dynasty was the heyday of the development of traditional Chinese medicine. The government attaches great importance to the education of traditional Chinese medicine, and has set up the "Taiyi Bureau" as the highest institution for training talents of traditional Chinese medicine. The teaching methods have also been greatly improved. For example, the acupuncture and moxibustion medical officer Wang Yi once designed and cast two bronze men, and finely carved 12 meridians and 354 acupuncture points for acupuncture teaching and examination of doctors. As the earliest teaching model, it has an intuitive, specific and vivid display effect, which is a great pioneering work in the history of the development of Chinese medical education.

The Song Dynasty government set up a special "correction medical book bureau" to collect, sort out, verify and collate the important medical books of the past dynasties in a planned way, which lasted for more than ten years. At present, the classics of traditional Chinese medicine, such as "Su Wen", "Treatise on Febrile Diseases", "Synopsis of the Golden Chamber", "Acupuncture and moxibustion A and B Classics", "On the Origin of Diseases", "Qianjin Yifu", "Qianjin Yifu" and "Secret of Wai Taiwan" were all handed down after being revised and published at that time.

Yuan Dynasty

Yuan Dynasty is a special period in Chinese history. In the development of traditional Chinese medicine, there are some characteristic medical thoughts, which strongly support Hui Hui medicine.

Ming Dynasty

During the Ming Dynasty, traditional Chinese medicine also developed rapidly. The outstanding representative was the Compendium of Materia Medica, written by physician Li Shizhen for 27 years, which contained 1892 kinds of drugs and more than 10000 attached prescriptions, which made outstanding contributions to the development of pharmacology in China and the world. Since 1593, this historical work has been translated into Japanese, French, English, German, Russian and other languages. It has been widely spread in the world and has had a profound impact. Li Shizhen is also known as "Oriental Darwin".

Qing Dynasty

Wu Jutong (1758-1836), a representative of traditional Chinese medicine in the Qing Dynasty, was from Huai'an District, Huai'an City, Jiangsu Province. He was 79 years old. He is an outstanding TCM febril. The contribution to traditional Chinese medicine lies in the legislative innovation and theoretical improvement of traditional Chinese medicine, especially for the treatment of tepid diseases. His theoretical play and many prescriptions left behind have further improved the basic treatment of traditional Chinese medicine in the field of external and hot diseases.

Modern

After the founding of New China, the government took "uniting Chinese and Western medicine" as one of the three major health work policies, and established the due status and role of Chinese medicine. The Ministry of Health has established the Department of Traditional Chinese Medicine, and provinces, cities, and counties have set up corresponding institutions such as the Department of Traditional Chinese Medicine, the Department of Traditional Chinese Medicine, and the Unit of Traditional Chinese Medicine. The Ministry of Health issued the Interim Regulations on Chinese Medicine Doctors and the Interim Regulations on the Management of Chinese Medicine Clinics, and established the Chinese Medicine Association. Through the organization of Chinese medicine training schools and training classes, and the development of Chinese medicine apprentices, the health of Chinese medicine has been guaranteed., Scientific and steady development.