Foreign Languages School, Henan University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Zhengzhou 450008, China.
Chin J Integr Med. 2012 Aug;18(8):629-34. doi: 10.1007/s11655-012-1170-3. Epub 2012 Aug 2.
Adaptation is an eternal theme of biological evolution. The paper aims at exploring the conception of positive correlation between traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) and human homeostatic evolution based on medical perspective. Discussions mainly involve TCM conforming to natural laws and natural evolution of life, spontaneous harmonization of yin and yang and operating system of human self-healing, modern human immunology and human endogenous immune function in TCM, self-homeostasis of human micro-ecological state and balance mechanism on regulating base in TCM, as well as adaptation-eternal theme of biological evolution and safeguarding adaptability-value of TCM. In perspective of medicine, theory and practice of TCM are in positive correlation with human homeostatic evolution, and what TCM tries to maintain is human intrinsic adaptive capability to disease and nature. Therefore, it is the core value of TCM, which is to be further studied, explored, realized and known to the world.
适应是生物进化的永恒主题。本文旨在从医学角度探讨中医与人体稳态进化之间存在正相关关系的概念。讨论主要涉及中医符合自然规律和生命的自然进化、阴阳自发协调和人体自我修复的操作系统、现代人类免疫学和中医的人类内源性免疫功能、人体微生态状态的自我平衡和中医调节基础上的平衡机制,以及生物进化的适应-永恒主题和中医的适应性-价值保障。从医学角度看,中医的理论和实践与人的稳态进化呈正相关,中医所力图维持的是人体对疾病和自然的内在适应能力。因此,这是中医的核心价值,需要进一步研究、探索、实现并为世界所认知。