Agren H
Am J Chin Med (Gard City N Y). 1975 Jul;3(3):207-12.
Traditional medicine in China has as yet been unsatisfactorily analyzed from the point of view of the history of ideas. It has come to be viewed as a monolithic system of therapy, and overlooked has been the fact that as time passed various originally different traditions and concepts were made to fit into all-embracing systems, intimately connected with a general way of thought. Theoretical superstructure in medicine has to be delineated from simple empirical observations. Only the latter can be a meaningful object for medical interest today--the theories are better studied within other disciplines.
从思想史的角度来看，中国传统医学至今尚未得到令人满意的分析。它已被视为一个单一的治疗体系，而人们忽略了这样一个事实：随着时间的推移，各种原本不同的传统和观念被纳入包罗万象的体系中，这些体系与一种普遍的思维方式紧密相连。医学的理论上层建筑必须与简单的经验观察区分开来。如今，只有后者才可能成为医学研究有意义的对象——理论最好在其他学科中进行研究。
