1 Introduction.Chinese medicine has a long and rich history,dating back to the classics of the Qin and Han dynasties and extending to the integration of Chinese and Western medicine in the modern era.The vast amount o...1 Introduction.Chinese medicine has a long and rich history,dating back to the classics of the Qin and Han dynasties and extending to the integration of Chinese and Western medicine in the modern era.The vast amount of literature and scholarly works in this field makes it essential to thoroughly study the history of traditional Chinese medicine(TCM)in order to understand its development path throughout the ages and boost innovation based on tradition.This is why the sages emphasized the importance of“classifying the works into different schools and tracing back to their origins”(辨章学术,考镜源流).展开更多
The ideal hypotensive agent should possess three essentials, i.e. to depress the blood pressure surely and steadily, and to block the renin-angio-tensin system (RAS)(1). Currently, Western medical treatment could depr...The ideal hypotensive agent should possess three essentials, i.e. to depress the blood pressure surely and steadily, and to block the renin-angio-tensin system (RAS)(1). Currently, Western medical treatment could depress the blood pressure rapidly and surely through reducing blood volume and dilating blood vessels, while traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) shows its superiorities in al-展开更多
the ext remely fine mate rial that exists in the unive rse and is ubiquitous. The Qi of tr aditional Chinese medicine (TCM) is put forward on the basis of philosophical meaning. It points out that Qi is a very invasiv...the ext remely fine mate rial that exists in the unive rse and is ubiquitous. The Qi of tr aditional Chinese medicine (TCM) is put forward on the basis of philosophical meaning. It points out that Qi is a very invasive and extremely subtle substance with strong vitality in the human body. It is the basic substance that constitutes the human body and maintains its life activity. Qi is the basic concept of TCM, but the unde「standing of the essence of Qi is not clear. At pr esent, the re are more and more studies on the essence of Qi of TCM, but it has not achieved a major breakthrough, which has become one of the problems that limit the development of traditional Chinese medicine. Through the research on the literature, it is found that Qi and Ca2+ are inext ricably simila r. This pape r attempts to expl ore the r ela ti onship between Qi and Ca^2+ from the aspects of source of pr oduc tion and physiological function to explain their simila r points. We hope to pro vide new ideas for the study of the essence of Qi and achieve the purpose of promoting the development of TCM.展开更多
In memory of Dr.Henry C.Lu,a traditional Chinese medicine(TCM)practitioner,educator and translator,this article provides an overview of his masterpiece A Complete Translation of the Yellow Emperor’s Classics of Inter...In memory of Dr.Henry C.Lu,a traditional Chinese medicine(TCM)practitioner,educator and translator,this article provides an overview of his masterpiece A Complete Translation of the Yellow Emperor’s Classics of Internal Medicine and the Difficult Classic(Nei-Jing and Nan-Jing)from the perspectives of book section,translation ideology and translation strategies.We then identify the features of TCM classics translated by overseas TCM practitioners and educators through analyzing exemplary characteristics of this translation.Their translations are often teaching oriented with plain and easy-to-read language,thus making TCM classics practical and applicable in clinic practice.Although these works are found in very few library collections of academic institutions,they received positive comments from readers including foreign TCM practitioners and students.展开更多
With the development of medical technology, the problem of fragmentation of medical research has become increasingly prominent, and a series of iatrogenic diseases, drug-induced diseases and drug toxicity and side eff...With the development of medical technology, the problem of fragmentation of medical research has become increasingly prominent, and a series of iatrogenic diseases, drug-induced diseases and drug toxicity and side effects have resulted in an increase in the number of diseases. In the face of these problems, the medical concept has been re-examined and re-thought. The concept of the holistic view of the unity of nature and man in traditional Chinese medicine has certain enlightenment for dealing with the problems in the current medical development. Based on the holistic view of the unity of nature and man, the overall connection between human’s heart and body and nature is explained, and the further construction of TCM psychosomatic medicine is conducive to guiding the diagnosis and treatment of clinical diseases, and providing new enlightenment for the current medical concept thinking and clinical disease research.展开更多
Traditional Chinese medicines(TCMs),usually comprising hundreds of different compounds with distinctive physiochemical properties,have been practiced for thousands of years worldwide for the treatment of various human...Traditional Chinese medicines(TCMs),usually comprising hundreds of different compounds with distinctive physiochemical properties,have been practiced for thousands of years worldwide for the treatment of various human diseases.Significant pharmacological properties have been clarified for many TCM in recent decades,while great efforts are needed to identify the active biomedical materials from TCM due to challenges such as technical barriers to screening,isolation,characterization,and optimization[1].Recent improvements in analytical tools,genome mining,and bioengineering technologies such as CRISPR-Cas systems are overcoming such challenges and offering new opportunities,promoting the integrative studies of TCM to systematically dig out the potential pharmaceutical compounds of TCMs[2-4].展开更多
Chen Shigong,styled name Yuren,was also known by the literary name Ruoxu.Coming from Donghaichongchuan(present Nantong City,Jiangsu Province)he was a famous traditional Chinese medicine(TCM)specialist of external medi...Chen Shigong,styled name Yuren,was also known by the literary name Ruoxu.Coming from Donghaichongchuan(present Nantong City,Jiangsu Province)he was a famous traditional Chinese medicine(TCM)specialist of external medicine of the Ming Dynasty(1368-1644).The Orthodox Lineage of External Medicine(Wai Ke Zheng Zong)written by him has been valued as the founder of the TCM Orthodox School of External Medicine.展开更多
Objective:To explore the feasibility of remotely obtaining complex information on traditional Chinese medicine(TCM)pulse conditions through voice signals.Methods: We used multi-label pulse conditions as the entry poin...Objective:To explore the feasibility of remotely obtaining complex information on traditional Chinese medicine(TCM)pulse conditions through voice signals.Methods: We used multi-label pulse conditions as the entry point and modeled and analyzed TCM pulse diagnosis by combining voice analysis and machine learning.Audio features were extracted from voice recordings in the TCM pulse condition dataset.The obtained features were combined with information from tongue and facial diagnoses.A multi-label pulse condition voice classification DNN model was built using 10-fold cross-validation,and the modeling methods were validated using publicly available datasets.Results: The analysis showed that the proposed method achieved an accuracy of 92.59%on the public dataset.The accuracies of the three single-label pulse manifestation models in the test set were 94.27%,96.35%,and 95.39%.The absolute accuracy of the multi-label model was 92.74%.Conclusion: Voice data analysis may serve as a remote adjunct to the TCM diagnostic method for pulse condition assessment.展开更多
This paper mainly analyzes the application status of TCM rehabilitation in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease(COPD),hoping to provide support and help for clinical staff through this study,and promote the further d...This paper mainly analyzes the application status of TCM rehabilitation in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease(COPD),hoping to provide support and help for clinical staff through this study,and promote the further development of COPD rehabilitation program.展开更多
The interview was conducted on November 20th,2022 by Ioannis Solos and Charles Buck.Ted Kaptchuk(泰开阳)is a Professor of Medicine and a Professor of Global Health&Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School.In 1975...The interview was conducted on November 20th,2022 by Ioannis Solos and Charles Buck.Ted Kaptchuk(泰开阳)is a Professor of Medicine and a Professor of Global Health&Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School.In 1975,he graduated from the Macao Institute of Chinese Medicine,Macao,China.After returning to the West,Ted taught Chinese medicine throughout the States,Europe,Latin America,and Australia.Ted’s book,The Web that Has No Weaver:Understanding Chinese Medicine is a groundbreaking explanation of East Asian medicine that continues to shape the discourse of the Chinese medicine profession in the West and has been translated into 13 languages.In 1990,Ted was recruited in Harvard Medical School to help research Chinese medicine.After encountering high placebo responses in multiple acupuncture clinical trials,Ted decided to switch his career to primarily studying placebo.He has published over 300 peer-reviewed articles.He has been awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Society of Acupuncture Research(2015),the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Society for Interdisciplinary Placebo Studies(2021),and the William Silen Lifetime Achievement Award in Mentoring from Harvard Medical School(2022).展开更多
Sichuan province is home to rich traditional Chinese medicine(TCM)resources.Recent years have seen unremitting efforts of TCM standardization in the province.By analyzing the measures and existing problems,this paper ...Sichuan province is home to rich traditional Chinese medicine(TCM)resources.Recent years have seen unremitting efforts of TCM standardization in the province.By analyzing the measures and existing problems,this paper provides recommendations to boost TCM development through standardization.展开更多
FOR 35-year-old Gabonese doctor Ovono Nkomo, traditional Chinese medicine （TCM） seemed like magic to him before he came to the Middle Kingdom. But after studying TCM for 12 years and working as a doctor in China, he...FOR 35-year-old Gabonese doctor Ovono Nkomo, traditional Chinese medicine （TCM） seemed like magic to him before he came to the Middle Kingdom. But after studying TCM for 12 years and working as a doctor in China, he describes TCM as a science.展开更多
A Spanish businessman becomes a dedicated advocate of traditional Chinese medicine after witnessing its effects in treating his terminally ill young son.MY relationship with traditional Chinese medicine(TCM)-and with ...A Spanish businessman becomes a dedicated advocate of traditional Chinese medicine after witnessing its effects in treating his terminally ill young son.MY relationship with traditional Chinese medicine(TCM)-and with China-began in 1988,when I traveled to Beijing with my two-year-old son Joan.He was suffering from an extremely rare disease called leukoencephalopathy,in which the brain is affected,and we wanted to explore treatment possibilities.展开更多
“Traditional Chinese medicine(TCM)is very popular in Cambodia because it can treat a variety of diseases,”said Nhek Soparama,ministercounselor of the Embassy of Cambodia in China,at the 2024 China-ASEAN Traditional ...“Traditional Chinese medicine(TCM)is very popular in Cambodia because it can treat a variety of diseases,”said Nhek Soparama,ministercounselor of the Embassy of Cambodia in China,at the 2024 China-ASEAN Traditional Chinese Medicine Industry Exchange and Promotion Conference in Taiyuan,Shanxi Province,on July 26.“Over the past two years,more than 20,000 Cambodians have received TCM treatment.”展开更多
基金financed by the grant from Beijing Social Science(No. 18LSB002)。
文摘1 Introduction.Chinese medicine has a long and rich history,dating back to the classics of the Qin and Han dynasties and extending to the integration of Chinese and Western medicine in the modern era.The vast amount of literature and scholarly works in this field makes it essential to thoroughly study the history of traditional Chinese medicine(TCM)in order to understand its development path throughout the ages and boost innovation based on tradition.This is why the sages emphasized the importance of“classifying the works into different schools and tracing back to their origins”(辨章学术,考镜源流).
文摘The ideal hypotensive agent should possess three essentials, i.e. to depress the blood pressure surely and steadily, and to block the renin-angio-tensin system (RAS)(1). Currently, Western medical treatment could depress the blood pressure rapidly and surely through reducing blood volume and dilating blood vessels, while traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) shows its superiorities in al-
文摘the ext remely fine mate rial that exists in the unive rse and is ubiquitous. The Qi of tr aditional Chinese medicine (TCM) is put forward on the basis of philosophical meaning. It points out that Qi is a very invasive and extremely subtle substance with strong vitality in the human body. It is the basic substance that constitutes the human body and maintains its life activity. Qi is the basic concept of TCM, but the unde「standing of the essence of Qi is not clear. At pr esent, the re are more and more studies on the essence of Qi of TCM, but it has not achieved a major breakthrough, which has become one of the problems that limit the development of traditional Chinese medicine. Through the research on the literature, it is found that Qi and Ca2+ are inext ricably simila r. This pape r attempts to expl ore the r ela ti onship between Qi and Ca^2+ from the aspects of source of pr oduc tion and physiological function to explain their simila r points. We hope to pro vide new ideas for the study of the essence of Qi and achieve the purpose of promoting the development of TCM.
基金financed by the grants from National Social Science Fund of China(No.20 CYY004 and No.18ZDA322)the Jiangsu Social Science Application Project(No.20SWA-02)the Qing Lan Project (2022)。
文摘In memory of Dr.Henry C.Lu,a traditional Chinese medicine(TCM)practitioner,educator and translator,this article provides an overview of his masterpiece A Complete Translation of the Yellow Emperor’s Classics of Internal Medicine and the Difficult Classic(Nei-Jing and Nan-Jing)from the perspectives of book section,translation ideology and translation strategies.We then identify the features of TCM classics translated by overseas TCM practitioners and educators through analyzing exemplary characteristics of this translation.Their translations are often teaching oriented with plain and easy-to-read language,thus making TCM classics practical and applicable in clinic practice.Although these works are found in very few library collections of academic institutions,they received positive comments from readers including foreign TCM practitioners and students.
文摘With the development of medical technology, the problem of fragmentation of medical research has become increasingly prominent, and a series of iatrogenic diseases, drug-induced diseases and drug toxicity and side effects have resulted in an increase in the number of diseases. In the face of these problems, the medical concept has been re-examined and re-thought. The concept of the holistic view of the unity of nature and man in traditional Chinese medicine has certain enlightenment for dealing with the problems in the current medical development. Based on the holistic view of the unity of nature and man, the overall connection between human’s heart and body and nature is explained, and the further construction of TCM psychosomatic medicine is conducive to guiding the diagnosis and treatment of clinical diseases, and providing new enlightenment for the current medical concept thinking and clinical disease research.
基金sponsored by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.82202922)the Topnotch Personnel from Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine.
文摘Traditional Chinese medicines(TCMs),usually comprising hundreds of different compounds with distinctive physiochemical properties,have been practiced for thousands of years worldwide for the treatment of various human diseases.Significant pharmacological properties have been clarified for many TCM in recent decades,while great efforts are needed to identify the active biomedical materials from TCM due to challenges such as technical barriers to screening,isolation,characterization,and optimization[1].Recent improvements in analytical tools,genome mining,and bioengineering technologies such as CRISPR-Cas systems are overcoming such challenges and offering new opportunities,promoting the integrative studies of TCM to systematically dig out the potential pharmaceutical compounds of TCMs[2-4].
文摘Chen Shigong,styled name Yuren,was also known by the literary name Ruoxu.Coming from Donghaichongchuan(present Nantong City,Jiangsu Province)he was a famous traditional Chinese medicine(TCM)specialist of external medicine of the Ming Dynasty(1368-1644).The Orthodox Lineage of External Medicine(Wai Ke Zheng Zong)written by him has been valued as the founder of the TCM Orthodox School of External Medicine.
基金supported by Fundamental Research Funds from the Beijing University of Chinese Medicine(2023-JYB-KYPT-13)the Developmental Fund of Beijing University of Chinese Medicine(2020-ZXFZJJ-083).
文摘Objective:To explore the feasibility of remotely obtaining complex information on traditional Chinese medicine(TCM)pulse conditions through voice signals.Methods: We used multi-label pulse conditions as the entry point and modeled and analyzed TCM pulse diagnosis by combining voice analysis and machine learning.Audio features were extracted from voice recordings in the TCM pulse condition dataset.The obtained features were combined with information from tongue and facial diagnoses.A multi-label pulse condition voice classification DNN model was built using 10-fold cross-validation,and the modeling methods were validated using publicly available datasets.Results: The analysis showed that the proposed method achieved an accuracy of 92.59%on the public dataset.The accuracies of the three single-label pulse manifestation models in the test set were 94.27%,96.35%,and 95.39%.The absolute accuracy of the multi-label model was 92.74%.Conclusion: Voice data analysis may serve as a remote adjunct to the TCM diagnostic method for pulse condition assessment.
基金Supported by Special Research Project of Science and Technology Bureau of Nanchong City,Sichuan Province"Effects of TCM Nursing Based on Syndrome Differentiation on Pulmonary Function and Quality of Life in Patients with Acute Exacerbation of COPD" (22YYJCYJ0057).
文摘This paper mainly analyzes the application status of TCM rehabilitation in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease(COPD),hoping to provide support and help for clinical staff through this study,and promote the further development of COPD rehabilitation program.
文摘The interview was conducted on November 20th,2022 by Ioannis Solos and Charles Buck.Ted Kaptchuk(泰开阳)is a Professor of Medicine and a Professor of Global Health&Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School.In 1975,he graduated from the Macao Institute of Chinese Medicine,Macao,China.After returning to the West,Ted taught Chinese medicine throughout the States,Europe,Latin America,and Australia.Ted’s book,The Web that Has No Weaver:Understanding Chinese Medicine is a groundbreaking explanation of East Asian medicine that continues to shape the discourse of the Chinese medicine profession in the West and has been translated into 13 languages.In 1990,Ted was recruited in Harvard Medical School to help research Chinese medicine.After encountering high placebo responses in multiple acupuncture clinical trials,Ted decided to switch his career to primarily studying placebo.He has published over 300 peer-reviewed articles.He has been awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Society of Acupuncture Research(2015),the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Society for Interdisciplinary Placebo Studies(2021),and the William Silen Lifetime Achievement Award in Mentoring from Harvard Medical School(2022).
文摘Sichuan province is home to rich traditional Chinese medicine(TCM)resources.Recent years have seen unremitting efforts of TCM standardization in the province.By analyzing the measures and existing problems,this paper provides recommendations to boost TCM development through standardization.
文摘FOR 35-year-old Gabonese doctor Ovono Nkomo, traditional Chinese medicine （TCM） seemed like magic to him before he came to the Middle Kingdom. But after studying TCM for 12 years and working as a doctor in China, he describes TCM as a science.
文摘A Spanish businessman becomes a dedicated advocate of traditional Chinese medicine after witnessing its effects in treating his terminally ill young son.MY relationship with traditional Chinese medicine(TCM)-and with China-began in 1988,when I traveled to Beijing with my two-year-old son Joan.He was suffering from an extremely rare disease called leukoencephalopathy,in which the brain is affected,and we wanted to explore treatment possibilities.
文摘“Traditional Chinese medicine(TCM)is very popular in Cambodia because it can treat a variety of diseases,”said Nhek Soparama,ministercounselor of the Embassy of Cambodia in China,at the 2024 China-ASEAN Traditional Chinese Medicine Industry Exchange and Promotion Conference in Taiyuan,Shanxi Province,on July 26.“Over the past two years,more than 20,000 Cambodians have received TCM treatment.”
