Author: Issabayeva Madina
Time is running out, and medicine is growing faster with it, with a great demand for a billion people. With the discovery of new technologies and the development of pharmacological medicines, people have become better at fighting diseases, although it cannot be excluded that new diseases, unknown to us, are emerging and that we are having to deal with them more difficulty. People trying to protect themselves are in the way of the traditional treatment. This type of traditional medicine is known from the past and has not lost its importance to this day. Eastern countries have a greater deal of experience with traditional medicine than the West, whose mode of treatment is used by almost one in three people.
There are many traditional medicines, depending on their country of origin. Today this article will be devoted to the most famous of them, Chinese traditional medicine.
Traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) is an entire science that has been shaped and developed in people’s daily lives and in their fight against disease for millennia. It has greatly contributed to the nation’s reproduction and prosperity, and has had a positive impact on the progress of an entire human civilization. This medicine was the first to create unique views on life, fitness, disease, prevention and treatment of diseases during its long history of development. TKM is a combination of both natural and human sciences, encompassing the profound philosophical ideas of the Chinese nation. As ideas about fitness and medical models change and evolve today, traditional Chinese medicine becomes increasingly important.
It began in ancient times, where the ancestors of the Chinese nation accidentally discovered that certain creatures and plants could serve as a cure for certain diseases and pains and gradually began to develop their use. Over time, people began to actively seek such means and treatments, so in China, special attention was paid to unusual herbs. Later, the discovery of alcohol in the Xia dynasty and the invention of herbal dishes in the Shang dynasty made the drugs more effective. After a while, in the Western Zhou dynasty, doctors were divided into four categories: nutritionist, attending physician, pottery doctor and veterinarian. During the spring and autumn of the warring states, Byan Quae used the experience of his predecessors and proposed four diagnostic methods - examination, auscultation and smell, polling and palpation, and treatment. In the Qin and Han dynasty, a book defining the basic structure of TKM was written, which served as a guide for its development, symbolizing the shift from the accumulation of clinical experience to the systematic generalization of theories. After some time, the theoretical basis of the TCM was created. The conclusion is that if you go a little bit deeper into the history of the TCM, you can understand that every dynasty in its present time, was particularly invested in traditional medicine, where with each century it discovered the best ways to use it, Not forgetting the writing of special recipes for the interaction of herbs, laid the foundations for the formation and development of pharmaceutical theory.
As I wrote earlier, the main medicine for their treatment of the disease was herbs. As we know, to get these antidotes, you need special plants that were extremely difficult to get at the time. Therefore, much emphasis was then placed on a holistic view. The TQM’s predecessors believe that the relationship between humans and nature is an interactive and inseparable whole, as well as the relationship between people and society and between the internal organs of the human body, It therefore values the impact of the natural and social environment on health and disease.
Moreover, TKM advocates believe that the mind and the body are closely linked, emphasizing the coordination of physical and mental factors and their interaction in health and illness, which gives great importance to the principle of harmony. TQM educators emphasize the importance of harmony for health, asserting that a person’s physical health depends on the harmony of body functions, a moderate state of emotional expression, and adaptation and conformity to different environments, Of which the most vital is the dynamic balance between Yin and Yang. The main cause of the disease is that various internal and external factors disturb the dynamic equilibrium. Therefore, maintaining health actually means maintaining a dynamic balance of body functions, and treating disease means restoring chaotic body functions to a state of coordination and harmony. TKM therapy focuses on the person who is sick, not the disease that the patient is facing.
In addition to drug treatment, TKM has many other non-pharmacological alternative approaches, such as acupuncture and catering, tuina (massage), upping and gouache (spoon). There’s no need for sophisticated equipment. TKM tools, such as the small tyres used in Chinese osteopathy, the spoons used in the gouache, or the cups used in the bath therapy, can be made from the materials used so that such procedures can be easily distributed.
Since the founding of the People’s Republic of China in 1949, the Chinese Government has paid great attention to TCM and has vigorously supported its development. TQM and Western medicine have their strengths. They work together in China to protect people from disease and improve public health. This proved to be an important feature and strength of medicine with Chinese characteristics.
28/06/2020
