What Is Folk Medicine?

Folk medicine is a method of mass self-care spread to the people, which is not documented and disseminated in textbooks, or is not explained and tolerated by classical theory. Compared with the orthodox textbooks, the medical methods spread in the folks are rich in content, popular and distinctive, so they are regarded as characteristic therapies.

Folk medicine

Folk medicine is a method of mass self-care spread to the people, which is not documented and disseminated in textbooks, or is not explained and tolerated by classic theories. Compared with the orthodox textbooks, the medical methods spread in the folks are rich in content, popular and distinctive, so they are regarded as characteristic therapies.

Chinese name

Folk medicine

Foreign name

minjianyixue

Area

China

The theoretical unsolvability, whether it is traditional Chinese medicine theory or modern medical theory, can not make a very correct explanation of its efficacy;

Popularity in technology, mainly manifested in local materials, convenient operation, from life, from nature;

The uncertainty of the curative effect is manifested by the poor repeatability of the curative effect, which is often related to the experience of the operator and the operator;

Oral communication in communication, that is, many empirical techniques cannot be accurately and comprehensively expressed in words, and there is no standardization. Therefore, the transmission methods are mostly through traditional teacher-in-chief, family transmission, etc., through oral communication and personal transmission. Personal practical realization.

Chinese folk medicine has a long history. "

First, attach importance to attacking evil and curing disease

Folk medicine retains the simple view of disease and treatment principles of ancient medicine. It is believed that the emergence of disease is the result of the addition of evil qi. Therefore, disease and evil have the same meaning. The "Emperor of the Yellow Emperor" so-called "the evil will gather together, and its qi will be empty" refers to the occurrence or non-existence of the disease. Once you get sick, you should still eliminate evil. Therefore, it is also called "the evil wind is coming, and the disease is like wind and rain, so the good ruler treats the fur, the second one cures the skin, the second one treats the veins, the second one treats the five internal organs. The one who treats the five internal organs is half dead and half alive." Zhang Zihe's three methods of "sweating and vomiting down", Lingyi's "top string interception" three strokes, and Wu Shiji's "extracting interception" all focused on early treatment and quick treatment, truncating the pathogenesis of the disease, and eliminating evil. They rarely use supplements, and there is no style of Li Dongyuan and Xue Lizhai who "soothe calmly", take medicine to dozens of patches and heal themselves. Most of the medicines used are dispelling wind, dispersing cold, rejuvenating muscles, attacking under attack, eliminating accumulations, scouring aromas, and violent poisons such as hot and cold, so it works very quickly.

Second, longer than foreign governance

Ancient doctors often used external treatment methods to treat diseases, such as

With China's entry into the WTO and the reform of the medical system, folk medicine will attract more and more attention. Its development trend has the following characteristics:

First inject vitality

The mass self-care boom will inject vitality into the development of folk medicine. With the aging of our country, medical care will become a matter of great concern to our people, and self-care is especially important for the prevention and treatment of geriatric diseases. New methods of disease prevention and treatment created and invented by the people in daily life will continue to emerge, which will greatly enrich the content of folk medicine. Among them, external treatment and diet therapy are its hotspots.

Second preventive health

The content of folk medicine tends to preventive health care. Due to the change of the disease spectrum and the increasingly obvious division of medicine, folk medicine will play a certain role in the prevention of common diseases and frequently-occurring diseases such as geriatric diseases, chronic diseases, and neuropsychiatric diseases.

Third specialization, marketization and scientific

The development and utilization of folk medicine tends to be specialized, market-oriented, and scientific. The so-called specialization means that specialized doctors set up specialist or specialized medical institutions or research institutes to conduct clinical research and research on folk medicines or medicines that are indeed effective. The so-called marketization refers to market-oriented development in the development of products that are urgently needed by the masses, which are easy to operate, close to life, safe, effective, and economical. The so-called scientificization refers to the use of medical scientific methods and methods to research and sort out, to eliminate some non-scientific components in folk medicine, and to adapt the developed products to the modern society and the international market. In particular, the development of folk medicine and ethnic medicine using modern pharmaceutical methods and means will become a hot spot.

Constraints of the Fourth Law

The development of folk medicine will be restricted by law. China's medical and pharmaceutical regulations have been issued one after another. In the future, medical activities will require qualifications for practicing physicians. Pharmacy personnel engaged in drug dispensing and preparations must have qualifications for practicing pharmacists. Therefore, medical activities undertaken by civilians will be considered illegal and severely Restrictions have a positive significance for protecting the health of the people and promoting the healthy development of folk medicine. At the same time, the implementation of China's advertising law is extremely beneficial to stop some people with ulterior motives from using folk medicine to obtain improper benefits.

Fifth people value

With the popularization of national legal consciousness and medical scientific knowledge, the safety and scientific nature of folk medicine will become more important to the masses. Some therapies that enter the human skin, such as bloodletting, acupuncture, and therapies that cause skin damage, such as foaming therapy, and the use of toxic herbs, will become very cautious and will be changed from home operations to professional Personnel performed in the hospital. Some therapies with unclear efficacy and toxic side effects will be banned. At the same time, some feudal superstitions and pseudo-scientific content in folk medicine will continue to be recognized and eliminated by the masses.

Summary

Folk medicine is an important part of traditional medicine. It plays an irreplaceable role in orthodox medicine in protecting the health of the people. With the development of the times, folk medicine will also change, the content will shift to health care prevention, management will become more standardized and included in the legalization track, the application will pay more attention to safety and science, with the promotion of market economy, The development and utilization of folk medicine will become a hot spot. As medical workers, they should pay attention to discovering and studying the experience of folk medicine, and using modern scientific methods and means to improve it, and contribute to the construction of health care with Chinese characteristics.