In Medicine, What Is a Holistic Approach?

Corresponding to holistic medicine is analytical medicine, which is the main feature of modern western medicine, and holistic medicine is conceptually consistent with traditional Chinese medicine.

Holistic Medicine

Corresponding to holistic medicine is analytical medicine, which is the main feature of modern western medicine, and holistic medicine is conceptually consistent with traditional Chinese medicine.

The term holistic medicine has existed in ancient times whether in ancient Greece, ancient India or ancient China. Modern holistic medicine is based on

Advances in theoretical physics in the 20th century, from relativity, quantum mechanics, to Hawking's theory of quantum gravity, the advancement of science's understanding of the world's primitives has greatly expanded human horizons. Systems science,

· 1 Overview of Holistic Medicine

· 2 Holistic Medicine-Author Introduction

· 3 Holistic Medicine-Main Content

· 4 Introduction to Holistic Medicine-Excerpt from Preface

Overview of Holistic Medicine

Advances in theoretical physics in the 20th century, from relativity, quantum mechanics, to Hawking's theory of quantum gravity, the advancement of science's understanding of the world's primitives has greatly expanded human horizons.

Systems science,

Foreword

Chapter I Basic Concepts, Methods and Scientific Concepts of Science

I. Basic scientific concepts

Basic scientific methods

3. Basic scientific concepts

Chapter 2 Objects of Medical ScienceAnalysis of Human Body System

First, the human body shown to us by biology

Second, the negative feedback regulation and the maintenance of human homeostasis

Third, the human body self-organizing, adaptive, self-adjusting characteristics

The human body is an open and complex giant system

Chapter 3 Western Medical System Characterized by Reduction Analysis

I. Experimental methods of reduction analysis and the rise of modern western medicine

Development Status of Modern Western Medicine

The Dilemma Facing the Analytical Reduction Method in Western Medicine

Chapter 4: The Science of Complexity: New Thoughts Uncovering the Mysteries of the Human Body and Disease

The rise of complexity science

Second, the emergence of complex systems and the emergence mechanism

Methodological principles for dealing with complex systems

4. Research methods of open complex giant systems

Chapter 5 Holistic Medicine: Theoretical Medicine Combining Chinese and Western Medicine

I. Towards Holistic Medicine

Second, the concept of holistic medicine, research methods and construction methods of human models

Third, the holistic view of human body, model description method and information detection technology

4. Disease analysis system for holistic medicine

V. Disease treatment system for holistic medicine

Space-time model of holistic medicine

7. Drug research and treatment methods in holistic medicine

Eight, disease prediction of holistic medicine and preventive health care system

Nine, health management throughout the life process of holistic medicine

Holistic Medicine-Foreword Excerpt

Only more than two decades ago, the concepts of systems and models were little known as fashionable terms in the emerging frontiers of science. When we used these concepts to analyze the methods and systems of Chinese medicine, some people in the industry saw This is nothing more than a modern interpretation of traditional science, a kind of grandeur of "changing soup without changing medicine", which seems to have no practical significance.

Today, no matter in China or the West, the terms system, model, function, and structure are so popular that they can be found everywhere in textbooks from elementary school to middle school, and they have become basic scientific concepts that elementary and middle school students must be familiar with in learning scientific methods.

Only more than two decades ago, to most people, scientific theories portrayed the real picture of the real world, and science finally showed human beings a true picture of what the natural world really was.

Today, as relativity and quantum mechanics are generally accepted by the scientific community as incomplete scientific theories, the "uncertainty principle" of quantum mechanics has been widely recognized by people. Human beings are no longer omnipotent observers with the development of science and technology. With controllers, whether it is the vast universe, the basic particles in the microscopic field, or human beings, the observation and control we can do are limited.

The more we understand the nature, the more we realize the limits of our abilities. Today, scientific theories, whether in the eyes of scientists or in textbooks in elementary and secondary schools, are limited to models that reveal the inherent laws of the real system in some way, and do not necessarily have any other relationship with the actual situation in the real world. Stephen Hawking, the world's greatest theoretical physicist after Einstein, discusses scientific theory in his classic book "A Brief History of Time": "Theory is just a model of the universe or its restricted part, And a set of rules that relate the quantities in this model to the observations we make. It only exists in our minds and has no other truth. If a theory satisfies the following two requirements, it is A good theory. On the basis of a model that contains only some arbitrary elements, the theory should be able to accurately describe a large number of observations, and it should also be able to clearly predict future observations. "

When we stand at the forefront of today's science and review the theoretical system of Chinese medicine in accordance with today's scientific concepts, we no longer consider it unscientific because the "five internal organs and six internal organs" of traditional Chinese medicine do not conform to the actual internal organ structure of human anatomy; We will not deny its correctness and practical significance because of the simple expressions of human organs, syndromes, etiology models, and five luck and six qi models established by our predecessors: these theoretical models are revealing the laws of human physiology and pathology, the human body With regard to the connection with nature, it has the same role as modern physics relativity and quantum mechanical models in revealing the inherent laws of nature. The amazing miracles created by traditional Chinese medicine in response to many intractable diseases incapable of modern western medicine have indisputably confirmed the practical significance of the theoretical model of traditional Chinese medicine in revealing the laws of human physiology and pathology and guiding clinical treatment.

Physics is a science in the strict sense, but this does not mean that the doctrines proposed by every physicist in history are scientific theories; in the history of the development of physics, once a theory has been verified, it cannot be false. In this regard, it is deemed unscientific. For example, Ptolemy's geocentric theory, Newton's view of time and space, quantum mechanics, and relativity have all been falsified in whole or in part, but no one thinks that they are not scientific.

Similarly, to call Chinese medicine a science does not mean that every theory in Chinese medicine is scientific; and there are some things in traditional Chinese medicine that do not conform to the scientific idea and scientific spirit. Deny the scientific nature of Chinese medicine as a subject system.

Construct the theory based on observations and experiments, use controlled experiments to test the theory, and then modify and improve the theory based on the results of the tests. For centuries, this has been the general mechanism driving the evolution of scientific theory. Due to the existence of such a theory development mechanism in science, the establishment of a new theory does not need to be based on the history of this discipline. During the development of physics, Copernicus's "Heliocentric Theory" was accepted by people in the 16th century, not based on the "Geocentric Theory" that has been popular for nearly 2,000 years. In the 20th century, Einstein's theory of relativity time and space replaced Newton. Today, Stephen Hawking's pole theory and quantum gravity theory replace relativity and quantum mechanics, which is exactly a kind of rebellion and transcendence to tradition.

Similarly, if such a mechanism for the development of scientific theories is introduced into Chinese medicine to determine whether a new theory is correct, people no longer need to cite classics and seek sources from their ancestors. But, like theoretical physics, the theory is reduced to a certain expectation and let practice test it. If the new theory can bring a deeper and more comprehensive understanding of human physiological and pathological activities, and the prediction and control of human status is more accurate and effective, it will have meaning.

Use scientific methods and principles to standardize the traditional theories of Chinese medicine, and establish a mechanism in Chinese medicine that can use controlled experiments to test and develop the theory. This is not exactly what we have called for decades of "modernization of Chinese medicine" and "scientization of traditional Chinese medicine" Does it really mean?

Studies in the history of Chinese medicine have shown that traditional Chinese medicine and traditional Chinese culture are completely in the same vein. The ancient sages of the East, as early as more than 2,000 years ago, formed a deep and complete worldview through their unique cognitive methods. And this kind of worldview is basically the same in China, India and ancient Greece. Modern science, which is based on materialism, has abandoned the "simple" philosophical view of ancient Greece, and under the guidance of the mechanistic world view, after hundreds of years of unremitting exploration by scientists in various fields, today's huge Natural science system.

Today, with the highly developed science and technology, physics, as the frontier of modern science, has to step away from the foundation on which science builds and survives in the deeper exploration of the origin of the world. The worldview formed more than two thousand years ago has returned. "Modern Physics and Eastern Mysticism" reads: "Western science has evolved along a spiral orbit. It started from the early Greek mystic philosophy, rose and unfolded through the remarkable development of rational thought, and kept leaving it. The origin of mysticism and developed a sharply opposed world view of the East. In the most recent period, Western science finally overcomes this concept and returns to early Greek and Eastern philosophy. This is not only dependent on intuition, but also Relying on highly accurate and complex experiments, relying on strict and consistent mathematical expressions. "

The theoretical physicists in the second half of the twentieth century have generally accepted the idea that the world cannot be simply regarded as material, materiality and energy are attributes of the real world at the same time; consciousness, like matter, can be transformed into energy of. Matter is not objective, but changes with different observers and their states. As a product of a certain stage in the evolution of the universe, humans have limited ability to understand and control the world.

Regarding the consistency between the latest theory of modern physics and Eastern philosophy, W. Heisenberg, one of the founders of quantum mechanics, had a clear statement: "Since the First World War, Japanese scientific research has made a great contribution to theoretical physics. It may be a sign that there is a certain connection between the philosophical ideas in the Eastern tradition and the philosophical nature of quantum mechanics. "

JR Oppenheimer, the "Father of the Atomic Bomb" in the United States, further stated: "The general concept of human cognition that emerged from the discovery of atomic physics ... is not by its nature unfamiliar and unheard of. Or they are completely new. Even in our own culture, they have a certain history, and they have a more central position in Buddhist and Hindu thoughts. The discovery we want to make is just an example of ancient wisdom, a promotion and Refinement. "

In the 1980s, we noticed that the development of modern medicine as part of modern science seems to deduct the same process of theoretical physics. From the Belgian doctor Andre. Vesari (1514-1564) created modern human anatomy and went to the British doctor William. Harvey (1578 ~ 1657) discovered blood circulation and created human physiology ..., in the West, medicine gradually abandoned the pseudo-tested components that ancient Greek medicine could not prove in physical observation, starting from the observation of the human body's morphology and structure, and in dissection Based on science, histology, physiology and biochemistry, it has established a huge knowledge system of modern western medicine today.

However, with the deepening of modern western medicine's understanding of the human body, the static scientific observation and single-factor analysis methods of modern science have become increasingly incompatible with the integrity required for the regulation and control of the human body. Natural therapies and natural medicine have once again caused people His interest in traditional medicine, which is rooted in traditional oriental culture, has attracted more and more attention. The overall concept of ancient Chinese traditional medicine and the idea of dialectical differentiation based on different people have been more and more widely recognized by the scientific community.

Of course, just like the process of western science's return to Eastern philosophy from the concept, "not just relying on intuition, but also relying on highly accurate and complicated experiments, relying on strict and consistent mathematical expressions." Similarly, the return of mainstream medicine to traditional medicine must be based on rigorous scientific experiments and verification of theoretical models.

Earlier in 1983, I published my debut work "Medical Structures of the Future: An Exploration of Future Medical Development Trends" in the Journal of Medicine and Philosophy. At that time, the western medical community had fully realized that static, single-factor analysis methods could not solve all the problems faced by medicine. To master the physiological and pathological laws of the human body and effectively control them, the results of analytical research were needed. Perform overall synthesis, that is, "refactor" the whole based on analysis. The question is: "Can Western medicine overcome the limitations of analytical methods and move towards overall integration, can Chinese medicine establish a rigorous scientific theory without the intuitiveness of experience, and can the two systems of Chinese and Western medicine be combined organically to form a kind of What about a better medical system? "

I pointed out in the article "Medical Structure of the Future" that the analysis method studies the interference with the normal life activities of the human body in the process of human body, and artificially cuts off the dynamic connection between various parts of the human body. The conclusion drawn from this is that it is not consistent with the human body by itself. The nature determines the activity of life, so it must be used for the overall integration, and it must be a thousand miles away. For an organic whole consisting of interconnected billions of cells, even if the data obtained from the analysis is accurate, integrating them into the whole means that the variables of astronomical numbers are put into the calculation and analysis together. Complex to achieve concrete results. " Obviously, on the road from analysis to integration, no matter how advanced the science is, western medicine cannot be integrated to the macro level described by the theoretical model of traditional Chinese medicine. In other words, along the "analysis-reconstruction" road, it is impossible to reach a theoretical model that can unify the two major systems of Chinese and Western medicine.

As a result, the "Medical Structure of the Future" reached this conclusion: "The medical structure of the future still contains two major systems, one is the modern western medicine system, and the other is the developed Chinese medicine system. The former looks at the static state and reveals the human body Under various physiological and pathological conditions, the physical morphological and functional changes of the body; the latter focuses on the dynamics and reveals the dynamic process of the development and change of various parts of the body under the influence of various factors in the interconnection and restriction of each other, and accurately Forecasting and comprehensive control. "

Today, 28 years later, when I picked up this article again, I realized that the analysis at that time seemed to make sense, but the conclusion was inevitably biased. The inability to establish a theoretical model of unifying the two major systems of TCM and Western medicine from the micro to the macro, and ultimately revealing the life activities of the human body completely and truthfully does not mean that it is not possible to construct a unified model that integrates TCM and Western medicine in the observation of human life activities The diagnosis and treatment system established on the basis is integrated to raise human control of the disease to a new level. The purpose of this book is to build such a new medical system that integrates Chinese and Western medicine.

In November 2008, at the invitation of the World Federation of Chinese Medicine Societies, the American Academy of Chinese Acupuncture and Moxibustion and the New York State Association of Practising Acupuncturists, I went to New York to attend the "2008 New York International Chinese Medicine Summit" and gave a special report "Humanity Beats Cancer in the 21st Century" New hope. " In the meantime, I was fortunate to get to know the couple of Mao Xiaomei and Bai Guidun who are committed to using the theory of luck in recent years to study the incidence of epidemics and the laws of body constitutional flow. They applied the traditional theory of the five lucks and six qis of traditional Chinese medicine, and during the SARS epidemic in 2003, they accurately predicted the trend of SARS several times; and they used computer meridian measuring instruments to successfully discover the character of human birthday and the type and pathogenesis of human constitution. There is some correspondence between them. These facts have also given me a lot of shock: Isn't this strong scientific evidence that the space-time movement of the universe affects climate change, the epidemic of human infectious diseases, and the formation of human physique?

In recent years, as the Human Genome Project has unveiled the mysteries of human genetic genes, scientists have begun to predict the predisposition of human individuals through genetic testing by establishing a database of the correspondence between genetic structure and human diseases. I wonder, what determines the genes of different individuals? Of course, it depends to a great extent on the inheritance of the parents, but can't there be some internal connection with the fetal conception, the environmental state during birth, and even the space-time state of the universe as a whole?

From the "bootstrap hypothesis" of quantum mechanics in the early twentieth century to the "self-sufficient solution of the universe" by Stephen Hawking, a contemporary theoretical physics master, today, theoretical physicists have generally abandoned "the universe is a set of basic entities with basic properties The concept of composition is replaced by a self-consistent new universe view: every arbitrarily large part of the universe is composed of the whole of all other parts, and every arbitrarily small part contains the universe as a whole. Time is relative to the observer. Now, past, and future are nothing more than hallucinations in people's minds. From this point of view, the formation of human genes, which is a very limited part of the universe, is influenced by the state of space and time of the universe. It is not surprising that the laws of change can be used to infer the fortunes of life and the future trends of life, illness, and death from the appearance and palm of the person.

This reminds me of a famous saying that Buddhist masters have said from ancient times to the present: "My heart is the universe, and the universe is my heart." Here, I am not only the Buddhist master himself, but also the person who is writing this book. I am reading this. In this book, you are everyone in the universe, every animal, every plant, every relatively independent individual, and every arbitrarily small part of the universe ... The difference from the "bootstrap hypothesis" and "universe self-sufficient solution" is that in modern physics, matter and energy can be converted, that is, the universe actually reflects the characteristics of matter and energy at the same time, the universe as a whole and any tiny part of it They are mutually contained, and the universe itself is completely self-sufficient. The ancient philosophy of the East goes one step further. It is as large as the universe as a whole, as small as any tiny part of the universe. There is consciousness and consciousness and matter that can be transformed into energy and are mutually contained with the whole universe. Matter, energy, consciousness, macro, micro, past, present, and future are all integral and indivisible. It is based on such an understanding that, unlike the outward-looking cognitive model based on Western scientific observation and reasoning, there has been a kind of "introspective" cognition of "my heart" and inward perception in the East since ancient times. mode.

20th century science, on the one hand, deepens people's understanding of the world's origin from the micro and cosmos in the field of traditional science represented by theoretical physics; on the other hand, along with system theory, cybernetics, information theory, consumption The emergence of new theories and methods, such as scattered structure theory, synergy, and catastrophe theory, has expanded the scope of science in breadth.

The past science was developed under the belief of the simplicity of the world and the simplicity of the laws of nature. Reduction theory analysis and decomposition methods are only suitable for studying those relatively simple systems, or problems that can be decomposed into multiple relatively simple systems although complex; for objects and problems that cannot be decomposed, they are simplified and ignored. The less important factors and connections are reduced to problems of simple systems and solved. Questions that cannot be reduced to simple systems are not listed as subjects of scientific research. Human knowledge systems that do not fit the reduction analysis method are excluded from science as pseudo-science or non-science.

Science is constantly improving. Many human ideas and knowledge systems that were easily abandoned in the past due to the incomprehension of science at the time, have been reintegrated into science in a new way by scientists in the process of scientific development because their correctness or scientific value has been proven The system.

With the deepening of human understanding of nature, scientists have gradually realized that the natural systems that exist around us: plants, animal individuals, human systems, human brain systems, geographic systems, ecosystems, galaxy systems, and social systems. There are many types and number of constituent elements, the internal structure and complex interrelated systems are difficult to decompose. It is impossible to fully grasp the behavior and internal laws of the system as a whole by using traditional analysis and decomposition methods. Facing the ocean and sea of complex systems, if science does not want to give up the instinct of human beings to reveal and utilize the laws of nature, it should open roads and bridges across rivers, and introduce new methods and tools more suitable for studying and understanding them. To expand your territory. As a result, complexity science came into being.

As "science in the 21st century", the rise of complexity science has led to changes in scientific concepts and thinking methods, which has expanded science from the traditional field of linearity, certainty, and order to the field of non-linearity, uncertainty, and disorder. . The fields that were not considered to be science or difficult to reach are gradually included in the scope of science, and the goal of science has also changed from the pursuit of simplicity to the complexity of knowledge. In studying the complex systems of reality, scientists have adopted methods that were not considered scientific in the past, such as metaphorical analogy and philosophical speculation. As a result, it also brought about a re-examination of the ancient holistic science characterized by observation and speculation.

Modern physics has developed to this day, and the understanding of the origin of the world and traditional oriental philosophy are increasingly unified. In the eyes of today's masters of theoretical physics or the sages of ancient East, the universe and the parts that make it up are closely related to each other. The creation, development, and change of everything in the universe are regular. These laws can be used by Human cognition. In this sense, ancient astrology, the five fortunes, six qi, and the birthplace of eight characters derived from the traditional Chinese philosophy of Tai Chi, Yin Yang and Gossip, which are passed down for thousands of years in China, may be the future of deciphering the space-time movement of the universe. A scientific model system that affects the internal laws of our living environment and human activities! Now that science has developed, is it time to re-examine the scientific value of these traditional Chinese cultures that have been dusted into historical garbage dumps as "feudal superstitions".

In the past few hundred years, the progress of western medicine has been almost synchronized with the progress of western science. Each step of modern scientific methods and technologies will push the research of western medicine forward in related fields. The consistency of the methods used in the study of complexity sciences with ancient scientific methods has led us to look at the future of modern western medicine along the road of complexity science guidance. We were surprised to find that if modern western medicine followed the methods of complexity science, When the integration of the human body is achieved by establishing a human body model from the overall level, the overall model is basically the same as the overall model formed in Chinese medicine for thousands of years in terms of concept, method and form.

This means that in the modern western medicine from reductive analysis to overall integration and the intuitiveness of overcoming experience, which makes the theory more scientific and standardized, traditional Chinese medicine will achieve the same goal in the future development path: the same can be tested by controlled experiments The scientific and standardized overall model realizes the unification of the two major knowledge systems. In other words, the ideals that many people have dreamed of in the past 100 years will be realized with the integration of modern western medicine, the modernization of traditional Chinese medicine, and the establishment of a unified theoretical system of traditional Chinese medicine and western medicine. Perfect unity.

The medical system centered on such an overall model will fully integrate the knowledge, experience and technology of traditional Chinese medicine and modern western medicine. It will lead to a revolution in ideas and ways of thinking never before seen in the medical field. The concept and basic method of such a medical system are rooted in traditional Chinese medicine, but its theory is based on scientific evidence. Therefore, it is qualitatively different from traditional Chinese medicine. The era of the concept of science has gradually become the mainstream scientific concept. We call this brand-new medical system holistic medicine.

The establishment of holistic medicine as "medicine of the 21st century" has unprecedented significance:

First, it will set up a bridge of complexity and scientific methodology characterized by holistic and comprehensive approaches to Chinese medicine, that is, set up a "ladder" to enter the palace of Chinese medicine along the direction of scientific advancement guided by scientific rationality and scientific methods. , To achieve "seamless integration" of Chinese medicine and modern science.

Second, it uses the mainstream ideas of theoretical physics that are at the commanding heights of modern science as the fulcrum and corroboration, and outlines the unique cosmology and epistemology of the East on which overall medicine is rooted. The space-time model system is expected to gradually develop into a strict and scientific theoretical system in the process of empirical inspection and improvement.

Third, it follows the basic methods of establishing models, validating models, and improving models in modern science to standardize the existing model system of traditional Chinese medicine and gradually transform it into a rigorous and scientific theoretical model that can be tested by controlled experiments.

Fourth, it will use thousands of years of traditional Chinese medicine and hundreds of years of modern western medicine for knowledge of human physiology and pathology and clinical treatment experience (including corresponding methods and tools) as a cosmic model that verifies and improves the ancient Eastern heaven and man. And the basis of a holistic medical manikin. Such a model is used as a state analysis tool for the overall medical system to guide the prediction, prevention and treatment of diseases.

Fifthly, it will take modern western medicine to observe the phenomena of various disease processes and the research on the occurrence, development and change of diseases, as the main body, and integrate the traditional disease classification and disease law research of traditional Chinese medicine, in accordance with the "easiest and applicable" principle. Establish a unified medical disease system.

Sixth, it integrates the effective treatment methods and treatment methods gradually accumulated in the development of traditional Chinese medicine and modern western medicine into the new overall medical system, and uses them comprehensively under the guidance of a unified human body model and disease theory.

For more than 100 years, with the opening of each country, the question of the survival and abandonment of traditional Chinese medicine and the development of traditional Chinese medicine has become the focus of attention in the medical community and the entire society. The scientificization of Chinese medicine and the modernization of Chinese medicine have become hot, cold, cold and hot topics that have been fired by academia since the 1920s.

However, in the context of renewed interest in oriental philosophy, traditional medicine, and natural medicines worldwide, Chinese medicine cannot be "disused". What is puzzling is that in China where traditional Chinese medicine originated, the tilt of policies and financial support did not bring significant effects to promote the development of traditional Chinese medicine. Instead, it strengthened the concepts and methods of western medicine in the diagnosis and treatment of diseases in traditional Chinese medicine. The weight of the time increases the proportion of Western medicine examination equipment and treatment methods in the Chinese Hospital. Obviously, what remains to be solved in TCM is the methodology of how to develop it.

In the history of scientific development, it is often when a new theory suitable for replacing the original theory appears that it will bring about fundamental progress in this discipline. Obviously, it is no longer meaningful to just stay in the "old" propositions such as scientifically discussing the scientific nature of TCM and the existence and abolition of TCM. What really makes sense is whether we can find a feasible path that can effectively promote the development of traditional Chinese medicine and build a more scientific new system suitable for replacing traditional Chinese medicine. In this sense, holistic medicine is modernized Chinese medicine, which inherits the holistic concept of TCM and the thought of dialectical treatment, and combines the treatment of the symptoms with the symptoms, dialectical treatment and the treatment of disease. The concept of have it integrates the disease analysis and treatment system developed by modern western medicine for hundreds of years, and realizes the unification of the two major systems of traditional Chinese and western medicine.

In the field of modern life sciences, in recent decades, with the development of science and technology, biology, physiology and medical research have continued to advance in depth and breadth, and the total amount of knowledge about humans, diseases, drugs, and related technologies has grown rapidly. With. "Because of the limitation of human's physical factors on intelligence", "the proportion of knowledge that a person can grasp throughout his life relative to the total knowledge in this field is getting smaller and smaller. As far as western medicine is concerned, yesterday we can Mr. Zhang is an expert in internal medicine and Mr. Li is a surgical expert. Today, we can only call Mr. Wang a cardiovascular expert and Mr. Xu a thoracic surgery expert. What will these people call tomorrow? "

The development of science has brought people's vision into depth, and the result of introducing depth has caused people to lose their grasp of the whole. People are increasingly confined to increasingly narrow fields, knowing nothing about or the fields adjacent to it. Very little. However, the human body as an organic whole where the parts are interconnected and mutually restrained, the control of the whole is not equal to the simple addition of the control of all levels and parts. To comprehensively and optimally control the human body, we need to grasp deeply Each part of the human body and even every detail, it is more important to grasp the interrelationship between the various parts, that is, to integrate them into the whole.

In recent years, the localization of western medicine in clinical treatment and the side effects of chemical drugs have caused more and more people to stay away. It seems that the reductionist methods that continue to be characterized by decomposition and analysis dominate the development of modern western medicine. The development of western medicine also calls for the birth of new ideas and methods. In this sense, holistic medicine also emerged at the historic moment. It introduced the holistic model of traditional Chinese medicine and the dialectical treatment system, combined with the knowledge and treatment experience of the human body and diseases formed in the development of western medicine for hundreds of years, thereby enabling modern western medicine. Development has embarked on the road of overall integration and achieved the perfect unification of the two major systems of Chinese and Western medicine.

The establishment of holistic medicine that integrates the two major systems of Chinese and Western medicine organically is like the two hands dominated by two brains becoming the two hands dominated by one brain. Holistic medicine is not the same as the simple addition of the knowledge and experience of the two major medical systems of Chinese and Western medicine. As a higher-level knowledge system, the overall medical level will "emerge" many characteristics that are unique to traditional Chinese and western medicine, greatly expanding human health. And disease control.

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