Systematic understanding of natural philosophical medical model / 中国组织工程研究

ABSTRACT

OBJECTIVE: To systematically understand natural philosophical medical mode that is the important component part of theoretical medicine studies, to further explain its theoretical values and application significance, so as to promote the constant improvement of medical mode.DATA SOURCES Based on Social Medicine---Evolution of Medical Mode---Empirical Medical Mode, synthesized the features of TCM, Chinese thought history, Chinese cultural history and the research method features, puts forward to the systematic understanding of natural philosophical medical mode.STUDY SELECTION Data was selected from social medical data, TCM data, Chinese cultural data and thought history data. The selected data can embody outlook of nature, abstract thinking features and mode features.The data was analyzed and grouped to reveal the application of the thoughts and methods of natural philosophy in the understanding of health and diseases.DATA EXTRACTION Among 23 papers, the data was mainly selected from 6 papers including Shanggu Tianzhen Lun, Shengqi Tongtian Lun and Zangqi Fa Shi Lun. The thoughts, theory and understanding from these materials are used to expound the natural and social phenomena of the human body, and get the conclusion that the qualitative analysis is sufficient,while the quantitative concepts are scanty; subjective experiences and clinical disproof theory are plentiful while concrete proof analysis and morphological injury principles are scarce.DATA SYNTHESIS: Based on the influences of holism and methodology of natural philosophy, the natural philosophical medical mode can only grasp the life phenomena organically. It attaches importance to the generalization of the relationships and phenomena above the level of the human body, but pays less attention to the concrete structure analysis below the level of human body. Therefore it emphasizes the interactive roles of the four-dimension structure of the heaven, earth, people and ethics in human health and diseases, invented many difficult material concepts to specify the physiological and pathological concepts. The life principles are invariable, the content of qi mechanism remains constant. All diseases can be understood, syndrome-differentiated and presc ribed. However the medical concepts are mostly cited from ancient philosophical concepts and the general level of medical theory remains in this level of thoughts.CONCLUSION: Natural philosophical medical mode centers upon social science, social phenomena and social psychology as its main tool. It attaches more importance to the essential attribute of man, namely the social attribute. By contrast the biological medical mode attaches importance to the natural attribute of man. namely the biological attribute. The two factors constitute the two sides of one thing. Compared with the present medical mode of biology---psychology---society, the natural philosophical medical mode not only has its systematic nature and holism, but also clinical therapeutic theory and more operational nature. It may enlighten people's wisdom and is an art of understanding health and diseases. Thus it possesses very important research significance and clinical application values.