Modern Interpretation of the Treatise on Cold Damage

Author: Li Tongxian
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Publish Date: 2003-05-01
Features: The inability of the two theoretical systems of Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) and Western Medicine to integrate arises because each adopts a different reference frame when studying the same phenomenon (disease), leading to distinct conceptual frameworks and theoretical structures. The concepts of TCM and Western Medicine cannot freely flow within each other's theoretical frameworks, resulting in their "incommensurability." As long as a common reference frame is found and an intermediary conceptual system is established, the concepts of TCM and Western Medicine can become equivalent and freely exchange within each other's theoretical frameworks, thereby achieving the integration of their theoretical systems. For this purpose, we chose the integration of TCM External Febrile Diseases (including the Treatise on Cold Damage and Warm Diseases) and modern infectious diseases as a breakthrough point, successfully achieving the integration of their theoretical systems and smoothly completing the book Modern Interpretation of the Treatise on Cold Damage. The purpose of this book goes beyond this—it aims to find a method to bridge the gap across time and space, enabling the integration of "incommensurable theoretical systems." By extension, it seeks to find a way to harmonize Eastern and Western, ancient and modern scientific and cultural traditions.