What exactly is TCM?
Admin • 26 November 2020
Traditional Chinese Medicine: TCM
Traditional Chinese Medicine is a discipline that deals with human physiology, pathology, diagnosis and the treatment and prevention of diseases.
TCM encompasses a specific, integrated system of theory, which comes from a history of several thousand years of clinical experience.
TCM develops from the experience of the Chinese people in their long struggle against diseases.
As a result, TCM has contributed a great deal to the promotion of health and prosperity of the Chinese nation and to the further development of medical sciences all over the world as well.
The theoretical system of TCM consists of the theories ofYin and Yang, the five elements, Zang Fu organs, meridians, pathogenesis, syndrome and techniques of diagnosis.
It also includes the therapeutic principles of health preservation and the six natural factors. It is a theoretical system much influenced by ancient materialism and dialectics, with the doctrine on Yin and Yang and the concept of integrated whole as its guiding principle.
This concept is based in the physiology and pathology of the Zang Fu organs and meridians. The diagnostic and therapeutic features of TCM include bianzheng lunzhi , which is a selection of treatment based on differential diagnosis.
TCM is not "new age", nor "alternative" - TCM is a complete medical system that has been practiced for thousand years and has a theoretical backgroud.
For those interested in further reading about TCM, we recommend a great publication by Mr Xu XiangCai from 2001: Principles of Traditional Chinese Medicine. (an exerpt can be downloaded by clicking here)
Copyright ©2001 by Xu XiangCai)
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