传统医药文化的附魅、祛魅与返魅

Enchantment,Disenchantment and Re-enchantment of Traditional Medicine Culture

传统医药文化在很长的历史时期内是以"附魅"的形式存在和发展的。巫术和"拜祖师"是其神秘化的主要手段。"附魅"缔造了权威,维护了受业者的既得利益,并为执业人员带来便利。近代科学以其精确性和实证性为传统医药文化的"祛魅"提供了契机。然而,随着科学技术的进一步发展,传统医药文化领域出现了一种"返魅"现象。

Traditional medicine culture is in the form of “enchantment” in a very long historical period of existence and development. Witchcraft and “the worship founder” are the primary means of mystification. “Enchantment” created the authority and maintained the vested interests of industry, also facilitated the practitioners. Modern science provided an opportunity of “disenchantment” to traditional medicine culture as its accuracy and empirical methods. However, with the further development of science and technology, there has been a phenomenon of “re-enchantment” in the field of traditional medicine culture.