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| Discussion on "Preventive Medicine" in TCM |
| Hits 1632 Download times 1950 Received:May 10, 2003 |
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| DOI
10.11656/j.issn.1672-1519.2003.03.14 |
| Key Words
preventive medicine;leading thought;method;measure |
| Author Name | Affiliation | | ZHANG Da-ning | Tianjin Academe of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Tianjin 300020, China |
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| Abstract
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| During the 2000 years of its formation and development, TCM has accumulated plenty knowledge on preventive medicine, including not only the definite leading thought of "preventing firstly", but also a whole series of concrete methods and measure,which showed from the aspects of sanitation, lemology, isolation and prophylactic inoculation. The paper expound from 4 aspects:"A good physician stress on preventive treatment" and "Emphasize on Zheng Qi" showing the leading thought of preventing mainly; attaching more attention to influence of natural environment to human-body; gradually establishment of lemology in TCM from the step of Treatise on Febrile Disease, Treatise on Pestilence to Teaching Material of Epidemic Febrile Disease; vaccination in TCM being the earliest prophylactic immunization in the world. |
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