traditional Chinese medicine

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Traditional Chinese Medicine

As we all know, traditional Chinese medicine has a long

history in China. It can be called simplified Chinese, which

is a style of traditional medicine built on a foundation of more

than 2500 years of Chinese medical practice. And there are

various forms including herbal medicine, acupuncture, message,

exercise, and dietary therapy. With development of society and

economy, traditional Chinese medicine is influenced by modern

Western medicine.

Because of its variety and development, it is becoming

increasingly popular and recognizes worldwide. I think the

popularity of TCM is that the main ideas in treating disease.

Therefore, I want to say something about the main ideas in

TCM. Firstly, the concept of TCM is that the relationship

between humans and nature is an interactive and inseparable

whole. It means that TCM pursues the unity of humans and nature

and treats many diseases with this theory.

Secondly, TCM wants to reach the level of harmony on heath.

Traditional Chinese doctors hold a principle that a person’s

physical heath rely on harmony in the function of the various

body organs. The various organs of the body are interconnected,

so if you feel sick in your one organ, your other organs maybe have problems.

Third, traditional Chinese medicine pays attention to

individuality. When we see a Chinese doctor, the doctor will

examine you by four ways of diagnosis –look, listen, ask and

feel the pulse. And the doctor will treats a disease based on

full consideration of the individual climatic and seasonal

conditions, and environment.

More and more people believe in using traditional Chinese

medicine. However, some people think that TCM is not scientific.

Compared with Western medicine, TCM has its different strengths.

Also, TCM is absorbing the advantages of Western medicine. They

work together in China to protect people from disease and

improve public health. Even if traditional Chinese medicine is

not scientific, it makes great progress recently. Our

government takes some measures to develop TCM, for example, 130

TCM elements have been incorporated into the Representative

List of National Intangible Cultural Heritage.

Do you remember artemisinin? It’s a gift from Traditional

Chinese Medicine to the world. Tu youyou said that Chinese

medicine and pharmacology are a great treasure-house. We should

explore them and raise them to a higher level. By this example,

we can learn the TCM is important for our life. Though some people doubt that TCM is unscientific, it always improving by

many scientists. And it becomes more and more accurate and

reliable.

Just like Professor Tu says that adopting, exploring,

developing and advancing these practices would allow us to

discover more novel medicines beneficial to the world

healthcare. Let’s take great efforts to improve traditional

Chinese medicine and push it forward the worldwide.