Chinese Traditional Medicine
Chinese Traditional Medicine How to get healthier? ... In China, it is very popular to use the traditional ways to keep health today. People use Chinese medicine to prevent the diseases and cure the diseases all along in China. People also use some herbal medicine to beautify the face and use acupuncture to adjust the organic system. ... To compare with the Western medicine, people think that the Chinese medicine is less chemical and is physical to the human body. In this paper, I am going to introduce some main information about the Chinese traditional medicine. Chinese history is over five thousand years, and the usage of Chinese traditional medicine is over three thousand years. ... The World Health Organization recognizes that traditional medicine remains the major source of health care for more than two thirds of the world’s population (Crellin 4). Especially the Chinese traditional medicine shows a significant status in the world’s medical system. Chinese traditional medicine holds that the body’s vital energy (Qi, 气) circulates through channels, called meridian, that have branches connected to bodily organs and functions. ... Qigong, Acupuncture, Herbal Medicine are the three pillars of traditional Chinese medicine. ... The pronunciation of Qigong in English is the same as it in Chinese, and we also spelling as this shape (Qigong) in Chinese, accordingly this word is just quoting from Chinese. The word Qigong breaks into Qi (气) and Gong (功) in Chinese. ... In the Oxford English Dictionary, they explain Qi as the physical life force postulated by certain Chinese philosophers; the material principle (Simpson 952). ... Qigong is the root of self-care in Chinese health care system. ... Earliest estimate suggest that self-enhancement and empowerment practices dare into the time of Chinese shamans, precious to 500 BCE (Jahnke, Qigong 1). In traditional Chinese medicine, good health is a result of a free flowing, well-balanced energy system. Chinese believe that the primary mechanism that is triggered by the practice of Qigong is a spontaneous balancing and enhancing of the natural healing resources in the human system. ... Acupuncture is another important part of Chinese traditional medicine. ... Some as an “art of healing” without any scientific basic has described the method, by others as exotic oriental folk medicine. ... Acupuncture, however, is really just a modality, a tool use by doctors of oriental medicine to help the patient. Like surgery, though much less invasive or like medication though less likely to cause side effects, acupuncture has starling implications for the future of medicine (Jahnke, History of Qigong 2). ... And acupuncture is often given along with Chinese herbs in China. At last, I will introduce the Chinese Herbs. Herbs play a key role in Chinese traditional medicine. ... Chinese Herbs are not all herbs. ... Chinese people take herbs the essence enters the acupuncture meridian and adjusts the vital flow of energy in the body. Herbs, more like foods than drugs, so by eating them we enrich ourselves with a vast array of nutrients; the energetic classification of herbs is a science, which has been refined over the last three thousand years (Chinese Herbology 1). ... Chinese people have been using natural herbs to treat a wide variety of diseases and conditions. Comparing with chemical medicine, Chinese herbal medicine is much gentler and safer because it is made of natural herbs. Most Chinese herbs do not cause side effects.