Return to Traditional Chinese Medicine - A Reassessment of the Basic Theories of TCM

Author: Zhang Xiaoxia
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Publish Date: 2006-10-01
Features: In the modern Chinese medical field, to bridge the gap between Eastern and Western medicine and adapt to the trend of the times, scholars used Western medicine as a reference system and adopted the "scientific" method to organize and construct the preliminary framework of the basic disciplines of traditional Chinese medicine in the context of an era where "everyone followed the standard of turning their backs on the old." The higher education of traditional Chinese medicine inherited the model of modern Chinese medical education, which is a major reason for the lack of successors and expertise in traditional Chinese medicine. This book employs comprehensive methods such as literature, history, philology, philosophy, sociology, logic, and embryology to analyze and correct numerous "apparently plausible but fundamentally flawed" "unimpeachable doctrines" in the existing system, such as the holistic concept, yin and yang, the five elements, zang-fu organs, syndrome differentiation and treatment, and traditional Chinese medicine. It reinterprets these concepts and clearly advocates the academic stance of "letting traditional Chinese medicine explain itself."