中医的本质和现代化之路

Since the beginning of 20th century, Chinese Traditional Medicine (TCM) has experienced efforts of changes including Combination/ Integration of TCM and Western Medicine, Scientifization of TCM and Modernization of TCM, etc. Unfortunately, all these efforts have proven to be invalid. In light of the logic structure of TCM theory, TCM is in nature a phenomenological therapeutic system by use of the healing power of nature. In the six levels of disease treatment strategies, TCM methods function at the high levels (Levels ③~⑥). Subsequently, TCM cannot be analyzed or rebuilt by deconstruction. Construction of an innovative medicine can be achieved starting from modern western medicine by using TCM theories as prior presuppositions. Establishment of scientific correlation among inner organs, neuroimmological researches based on Channel of Qi, and establishment of novel evaluation systems for TCM drugs based on regulation of cell signal transduction are practical words at present. This paper provides a new view on the roadmap towards the success of TCM modernization while keeping the features of TCM.