谈“服食”养生术对中医学的影响

Discussion about the Influence of Medicine-taking Health Preservation on Traditional Chinese Medicine

服食养生术反映了人们追求健康长寿的美好愿望,具有一定的可行性与有效性,对中医学产生了深远的影响。服食的兴起推动了古人对自然界草木金石的认识与应用,促成了大量奇效良方的问世;服食不当导致的大量复杂病证,则带给中医学诸多挑战;服食的没落让后世的养生观念更加理性,方法更加丰富。

Medicine-taking health preservation reflects the good wishes of the people to pursue health and longevity, and has a certain validity and feasibility, and has produced profound influence on Traditional Chinese Medicine. It promoted the understanding and application of the ancients on the nature of drug, and the advent of a large number of effective prescription. On the other hand, a large number of complicated cases due to improper use of drugs, brought many challenges to Traditional Chinese Medicine. Finally, its decline changed the concept of health preservation of future generations, and enriched the methods of health oreservation.