发展中西医结合学应重视基础研究

Developing integrative medicine should pay attention to basic research

中西医结合学是与中医学、西医学相比肩的一级学科。2008年11月27日,国家中医药管理局、中国中西医结合学会在北京举行"纪念毛泽东同志关于西医学习中医重要批示发表50周年大会",卫生部部长陈竺在讲话中指出:中西医结合代表未来医学的发展方向。作者从中西医结合学的概念和内涵、发展与演变、成绩与问题、层次与途径进行阐述,并强调发展中西医结合学应重视基础研究。

After over five decades of vigorous development in China, integrative medicine （IM） has devel- oped into an academic discipline with some overlaps but independent from both Chinese medicine （CM） and West- ern medicine （WM）. CHEN Zhu, the Minister of the Ministry of Health pointed out that IM represents the develo- ping direction for future medicine at the conference commemorating the 50th anniversary of Chairman MAO Ze- dong＇ s important instructions on WM doctors learning from CM, which was sponsored by State Administration of Traditional Chinese Medicine and Chinese Association of Integrative Medicine in Beijing on November 27,2008. In this article, the author stresses basic research should be paid attention to in developing IM from the concepts and connotation, development and evolution, achievements and problems, layers and pathways of IM.