Inheriting the quintessence of traditional Chinese medicine

Traditional Chinese medicine has always been hailed as the treasure of Chinese traditional culture and the key to unlocking the treasure house of Chinese civilization. The development of traditional Chinese medicine must be inherited and even more innovative. As one of its characteristic treatments, how to keep pace with the times and keep pace with the times? Advancing with the times and inclusive, what valuable experiences are worth sharing in the clinical treatment of ointment? How can the health care concept of ointment to prevent diseases benefit more people?

 

        Modern people cannot live without traditional Chinese medicine

 

        Ointment prescriptions have a long history, starting in the Han and Tang Dynasties, and there are records about ointments in the "Emperor's Internal Classic". Before the Tang Dynasty, it was called ointment, which was used both internally and externally, and its main function was treatment; it was called decoction, and it was mostly taken internally. In addition to being used for treatment, it has also been used as a bait for health preservation. In my country's traditional Chinese medicine, it embodies the profound philosophical wisdom, the thousands of years of Chinese nation's concept of health preservation and its practical experience. However, with the advancement of modern medicine, there are more and more doubts about TCM. Will Chinese medicine be ruined by Chinese medicine? Will traditional Chinese medicine be replaced by western medicine and make it withdraw from the modern medical stage...

 

        In the face of all kinds of doubts, Professor Guo Yinglu, an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, did not admit it. "Not only am I very 'friendly' to Chinese medicine, but I also respect and like Chinese medicine. The fact is that the Chinese have survived for thousands of years, and there is no practice of Chinese medicine?" he said.

 

        Shi Dazhuo, a member of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference and vice president of Xiyuan Hospital of the Chinese Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences, believes that on the basis of the traditional dialectical thought of yin and yang, after more than two thousand years of repeated practice of traditional Chinese medicine by doctors of all dynasties, certain laws and norms have been formed by practice. Effective methods have been accumulated in the fight against diseases. "Chinese medicine is a science of development, not a subject that is stagnant, nor is it a medical method that is stagnant." Referring to the future development of Chinese medicine, Shi Dazhuo said that inheritance, development, innovation , three aspects are indispensable. To protect and promote traditional Chinese medicine, it is necessary to prevent Chinese medicine from becoming "museum medicine".

 

        In fact, a lot of modern health care knowledge is reflected in ancient Chinese medicine books, but it is often ignored by modern people. According to Ma Guansheng, director of the Nutrition and Food Department of Peking University School of Public Health, "The Yellow Emperor's Internal Classic" is an earlier dietary guideline. On the one hand, the dietary guidelines for Chinese residents have done a lot of publicity, but traditional Chinese medicine theories, health care knowledge and theories are not. It has been well promoted and publicized, which is also a challenge faced by modern scholars when conducting science popularization. "In the newer version of the dietary guidelines, many basic things still do not leave the "Huangdi Neijing", such as grain-based, diverse food, eating dynamic balance, etc., you can find traces of many basics back then."

 

        Strong demand for ointment prescription traditional Chinese medicine

 

        In recent years, people's awareness of ointment health preservation has been further improved, and more and more people regard it as a fashion choice for pursuing health. Ointment, a bright pearl in ancient Chinese health preservation culture, has gradually become the pursuit of modern people. A symbol of high-quality life, it has also become a holy product for women's health that is sold overseas.

 

        The reason why the ointment "flowers inside the wall and smells fragrant outside the wall" is mainly due to the wide recognition of Chinese medicine abroad. According to Sun Yongzhang, director of the International Exchange Department of the Chinese Association of Traditional Chinese Medicine, at present, Chinese medicine has spread to 183 countries and regions. There are more than 100,000 Chinese medicine clinics all over the world, and more than 300,000 overseas practitioners. Sun Yongzhang said: "I have been working in the International Department of the Chinese Association of Chinese Medicine for 10 years, and I have found that different regions of the world have different needs for traditional Chinese medicine, especially in Southeast Asia, including the Arab region, where there is a very high demand for ointment or nourishing traditional Chinese medicine. exuberant."

 

        The popularity of the ointment is inseparable from the quality and efficacy of the ointment. Ointment is the benevolent effect of rain on the soil. The ointment formula in traditional Chinese medicine is the flowing ointment that moisturizes the human body.

 

        Ingenuity and craftsmanship absorb ancient methods and inheritance

 

        It is not easy to make ointment in traditional Chinese medicine. To make a really good ointment is a technical job, but also a job of conscience.

 

        Taking Qihuang Paste as an example, from small copper pots to stainless steel pots to Tongshan aseptic workshops, we always adhere to the ancient handwork. Different from the previous method of temperature control by machine and assembly line processing, the complicated process of boiling ointment in the ancient method, Qihuang ointment is soaked for 12 hours, extracted three times, concentrated four times, gelatinized for 48 hours, heated for three times, and collected with slow fire. The ointment has gone through 8 processes of selection, preparation, washing, soaking, frying, secreting, filtering, and harvesting, which retains the essence of the traditional ointment boiling process to a large extent.

 

        The essence of Chinese medicine should be inherited, but the profoundness of Chinese medicine should not be used as a gimmick to show off, and a stove and a copper pot should be boiled on the street. In his view, the result of doing so can only be counterproductive.

 

        The really good ointment has no burnt smell and no peculiar smell, but has a faint medicinal fragrance, and there is no crystallization of sugar. The quality of ointment is closely related to the ability of the ointment maker. Wen Changlu said that in the history of the application of traditional Chinese medicine, ointment prescriptions have gradually entered the common people from the medicine lists of royal families, rich families, and tonic families. But it should be noted that the ointment can neither be regarded as a panacea, nor can the ointment be mistakenly regarded as a dispensable sweet cream, an innocuous diet, or a panacea that can be used for all diseases. Ointment is only a dosage form of traditional Chinese medicine preparations, and eating ointment is only one of many treatment methods, which must be carried out under the guidance of a doctor. Wen Changlu specially reminded that sellers of ointments should be conscientious medicines, and those who introduce ointments should speak conscientious words. Only in this way can Chinese medicine make progress and the ointment industry can develop healthily.