Traditional Chinese Medicine Can't Be Divorced from Metaphysical Thought
- VernacularTitle:中医与形上之思
- Author:
Zhizhong LI
- Publication Type:Journal Article
- Keywords:
traditional Chinese medicine(TCM);
metaphysical thought;
traditional culture;
The Book of Changes
- From:
China Journal of Traditional Chinese Medicine and Pharmacy
2005;0(12):-
- CountryChina
- Language:Chinese
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Abstract:
It is said in the article of The Book of Changes.Twelfth Preceding Copulative that "those which belong to metaphysical are called the laws;those which belong to materialize are called the implements".That should be the earliest and the most accurate scientific classification principles and standards in the history of human sciences,and until today,it does not yet loss its guiding significance.The sciences which researches the movement of objects and their processes is called metaphysical science,and which researches the construction and morphology of objects is called materialize science.The human being fronted with physianthropy,is the wisest of all creatures-man,as well as the world's most complex organisms.So compared with other creatures,the human has the typical duality of metaphysical and materialize.Accordingly,the physianthropy also will be necessarily having metaphysical(such as Chinese medicine) and materialize(e.g.Western medicine),the two major categories.Metaphysical thought ways based on Chinese philosophy and system theory has bred the traditional Chinese medicine.On the opposite,the medical science based on analysis and(or reduction) is the Western medicine.The chief issue of the development of contemporary Chinese medicine academic is the scientific classification principles and standards of metaphysical and materializes.Ever since a long time ago,superstition the scientific methods of analysis and(or reduction),apart from metaphysical thought,is the main reason for confusion and stagnation of the development of contemporary Chinese medicine academic.So it is proposed that the resuscitation of TCM rests with the recurrence of metaphysical thought.
