中医学对衰老的认识

An Approach to the Aging Mechanism Traditional Chinese Medicine

中医学有着数千年悠久的历史,对衰老机理有其独特见解。中医学说衰老机理大致可归纳为四种:一是脏腑虚衰学说,二是气血失常衰老学说,三是精气神衰老学说,四是津液不足衰老学说。其中,脏腑虚衰学说又分别从肾脏虚衰、脾虚、肺脏衰弱、心脏虚衰、肝脏虚衰五个方面进行了剖析。

Traditional Chinese medicine has a long history of thousands of years and it has unique views on aging mechanism. Elaboration on the aging mechanism in traditional Chinese medicine, mainly in the following four cate- gories ： the deficiency of viscera theory of aging, the disorder of breath and blood theory of aging, the vital essence aging theory, and the lack of body fluid theory of aging. Among them, the deficiency of viscera aging theory respec- tively from the following several aspects to analyze the mechanism of aging： kidney deficiency, spleen deficiency and senescence, lung decline and senescence, heart deficiency and senescence, liver deficienev and senescence.