Science Squirrel Some people will mention Chinese medicine and religion together. Is there any connection between them?

In fact, there is no connection, but some people don't understand the theory of traditional Chinese medicine, and think that the theory of traditional Chinese medicine is closer to the theological system than the scientific system, but one thing needs attention. What is science? Isn't he still a system created by human beings for the convenience of understanding the world?

Why assume that X and Y are scientific truths and Jingxue is a religious superstition? It doesn't make sense.

Moreover, although most ancient witch doctors were of the same origin, China clearly distinguished witchcraft rituals from medical activities in Huangdi Neijing thousands of years ago, but science was not yet born.

In the wild times, people can only treat diseases cautiously by observing and analyzing phenomena, so the diagnosis and treatment of traditional Chinese medicine is called "treatment based on syndrome differentiation", which is more inhuman than using saws and soldering irons to treat pain in western medical history.

It should be said that TCM is a practical science developed from China's classical philosophy. Because China people have a weak religious consciousness since ancient times, they have never formed a national unified religion. Therefore, the influence of religion often permeates philosophy and is intertwined with the theory of traditional Chinese medicine. In addition, divination, numerology, geomantic omen and other things with religious and superstitious colors are also philosophically homologous to Chinese medicine. Therefore, Chinese medicine is often easily understood as a religious product, and it is also common to say that the Book of Changes and Yi Bu are homologous.

But in modern times, just as Feng Shui is defined as environmental science, the nature of TCM has been mentioned again. The word science represents a classification system, which can falsify and define things through repeated experiments and push them on. People's cognitive ability can only lag behind people's cognitive means ... When people become more and more superstitious about science, scientists warn us that we have been blindly creating concepts as a tool to help us understand. The concept of worship actually distorts the facts ... Therefore, the fact that Chinese medicine and science adopt different systematic viewpoints and cognitive methods does not mean that they are not qualified to become truth, but that the results of their hundreds of years of experiments can easily surpass the accumulation of thousands of years of experience, which can only be said to be arrogance in absolute ignorance.