Why is TCM called TCM?

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If you want to talk about Chinese medicine, the so-called name is not correct. If you want to talk about Chinese medicine, you have to start with the name of Chinese medicine.

The first question, why is Chinese medicine called Chinese medicine?

I believe many friends will answer without thinking. They call TCM because it is the medicine of China people. Of course, this answer is not wrong, but the answer itself is not so accurate.

In ancient times, Chinese medicine was called Huang Qi, also known as the art of Huang Qi, and some were called Xinglin. Later, before the introduction of Chinese and western medicine in the historical process, it was also directly called medical skill, living method or medical way.

Traditional Chinese medicine is called TCM for short. In fact, it is not a long time, but it is called Chinese medicine after the introduction of western medicine.

So why is Chinese medicine called Chinese medicine?

One is to distinguish western medicine from Chinese medicine, and the other is the most fundamental meaning, which comes from this Chinese character.

If Chinese medicine is the medicine of China people, why should China people be added to China people? Not East China, North China, West China and South China, but China?

This is not because we ancient people are very confident, thinking that we are a celestial country and that our country is the center of the earth, but because of our cultural origin.

There used to be a popular saying among the people that doctors can only be trusted if they practice medicine for at least three generations. This statement is also the reason why quacks often claim that their medical skills are ancestral. Because many people have this concept, they will feel that ancestral medicine is more powerful. Whether this judgment is accurate or not will be discussed later. Now we just say that this "three generations of doctors can't be trusted" is itself.

In fact, the original words were that doctors could not cure Sanfen and refused to accept their medicine.

This tomb doesn't mean a graveyard. The three graves here refer to the books of Fuxi, Shennong and Huangdi, so they are combined into three graves.

Among the three tombs, Fuxi painted hexagrams, which is the general source of China culture, so this Chinese character of Chinese medicine and China people came from here.

Talking about Chinese medicine, why should we talk about Fuxi's painting hexagrams?

Because a long time ago, the ancestors of the Chinese people summed up the laws of nature as one, and at the same time divided one into two, that is, Yin and Yang and heaven and earth. The hexagrams painted by Fuxi are composed of yin and yang. Some people describe Yin and Yang as binary, but in the eyes of boys, the meaning of Yin and Yang contains binary, which is philosophy, and philosophy is often the forerunner of science.

If there is life, there is death, and if there is life, there is no life, just like there are yin and yang in nature.

The essence of traditional Chinese medicine is to study yin and yang. If yin and yang are two, then Chinese characters in TCM are one.

What is "Zhong"?

Henan, the birthplace of Chinese civilization, still retains this spoken language.

Ask one thing and they will miss it.

Yes!

Oh, good is good.

Why do you say you are good at winning?

Because the middle is the ideal state of yin and yang.

Yin-yang thinking has carried out the culture of this nation.

Go is black and white, drawing is blank, and even mahjong is grasped and played. This choice is also a matter of yin and yang.

Make this question clear, and you can officially start talking about Chinese medicine.

Fuxi's divination has influenced all aspects of China's civilization, such as the reality of military strategists in the contention of a hundred schools of thought, the courtship of strategists, the intrigue of warlocks, and the visits of yin and yang fortune tellers.

Doctors are no exception.

The four ancient civilizations all have their own traditional medicine, but today it is only traditional Chinese medicine that is still widely used in clinical practice.

The reason why Chinese medicine is still useful and full of vitality naturally stems from the fact that Chinese medicine directly absorbed the essence of Chinese civilization from the beginning, whether it is binary or yin and yang. This system has guaranteed the health of this country for thousands of years.

Why is the population of China so large?

During the Anti-Japanese War, we said that 40 million compatriots should unite.

How much is 40 million?

Many people say that Chinese medicine is a placebo, a psychological suggestion, not a medicine.

What puzzles the boy is that before the popularization of modern medicine, a placebo and psychological suggestion actually made a nation have a population of 40 million.

That can only say that this placebo has surpassed many drugs.

This is not to say that Chinese medicine is good and belittle other medicine. Traditional Chinese medicine and modern medicine have their own advantages and disadvantages. We'll talk about this later.

Traditional Chinese medicine was limited by the times, and there was no modern medical equipment at that time, so it regarded the human body as a black box and did not entangle the details of the human body. Instead, it has taken a completely different route from modern medicine from a macro perspective.

Now we often say that details determine success or failure, but there are problems.

Details don't determine success or failure. For example, everyone will understand.

Many people in an overseas country eat gutter oil and melamine every day, which is terrible in detail.

But many people are not sick either.

Why?

Because the overall balance has not been broken.

Therefore, the premise that details determine success or failure is whether the overall macro direction is wrong.

Even if a person has done every detail, it is useless to go in the wrong direction.