China Medical Health Industry Investment and Financing Summit” – Xu Zhiren “Chinese medicine” was first seen in the Hanshu Yiwenzhi Jingfang, which said: “to heat to benefit from heat, cold to increase the cold, not seen outside, is the only lost. ” Therefore, the proverb says: “If you are sick and not treated, you often get a Chinese doctor.” Here the word “Chinese” is pronounced in the declension. The term “Chinese medicine” really appeared before and after the Opium War. The Western doctors of the East India Company gave Chinese medicine the name Chinese medicine to distinguish between Chinese and Western medicine. At this time, the name of Chinese medicine was to make a comparison with Western medicine. In 1936, the Kuomintang government enacted the “Regulations on Chinese Medicine”, which officially legalized the word “Chinese medicine”. In the past, people also called Chinese medicine “Han medicine”, “traditional medicine” and “national medicine”, all of which appeared successively as distinct from Western medicine. More than two thousand years ago, the concept of Chinese medicine in the Book of Han was the highest level of Chinese medicine. Gao Ming, Department of Rehabilitation, Songwon Traditional Chinese Hospital Chinese medicine originated in the Yellow River Basin of China and established its academic system very early. During the long development of Chinese medicine, different creations have been made in different generations, and many famous doctors have emerged, and many important schools and masterpieces have appeared. In Chinese history, there is a legend that “Shennong tasted the hundred herbs …… for one day and encountered seventy poisons”, which reflects the painstaking process of ancient working people in the process of discovering drugs and accumulating experience in the struggle against nature and diseases, and is also a true depiction of the origin of Chinese medicine in production work. As early as the Xia, Shang and Zhou dynasties (about the end of the 22nd century B.C. – 256 B.C.), medicinal wine and soup liquor were already available in China. The Shi Jing of the Western Zhou Dynasty (c. 11th century B.C.-771 B.C.) is the earliest book with medicine in the extant Chinese literature. The Nei Jing, the earliest extant text on Chinese medicine theory, put forward the doctrines of “cold is hot, hot is cold”, “the five flavors are in” and “the five organs are bitter and want to supplement diarrhea”, which laid the foundation for the basic theory of Chinese medicine. This laid the foundation for the basic theory of Chinese medicine. The earliest extant pharmacological monograph, Shennong Ben Cao Jing, was written during the Qin and Han dynasties (221 B.C.-220 A.D.) after many medical scholars collected and summarized the rich pharmacological data from the pre-Qin dynasties. This book contains 365 kinds of medicines, which are still in clinical use today. Its appearance marked the initial establishment of traditional Chinese medicine. More than 3,000 years ago, in the oracle bone inscriptions of the Yin and Shang Dynasties, there were already records of medical and health care and more than ten kinds of diseases in China. During the Zhou Dynasty, methods of diagnosis and treatment with drugs, acupuncture and surgery were already in use, such as looking, smelling, asking and cutting. During the Qin and Han dynasties, works with systematic theories such as the Yellow Emperor’s Classic of Internal Medicine were developed. This book is one of the earliest extant theoretical classical works on Chinese medicine. The Treatise on Miscellaneous Diseases of Typhoid Fever by Zhang Zhongjing specifically discussed the principles of diagnosis and treatment of various miscellaneous diseases, which laid the foundation for the development of clinical medicine in later times. The Han Dynasty had a high level of surgical science. According to “Three Kingdoms”, the famous doctor Hua Tuo started to use general anesthetic “Ma Bo San” for various surgical operations. From the Wei-Jin-North and South Dynasties (220–589 A.D.) to the Sui-Tang and Five Dynasties (581–960 A.D.), pulse diagnosis has made outstanding achievements. The Pulse Classic by Wang Shuhe, a famous doctor of the Jin Dynasty, summarized 24 pulse signs. The book not only had a great influence on Chinese medicine, but also spread abroad. During this period, the specialization of various medical disciplines became mature. The monographs on acupuncture and moxibustion include “Acupuncture and Moxibustion Jie”; “Baopu Zi” and “Post Elbow Formula” are representative works on alchemy; on pharmaceuticals, there is “Lei Gong’s Treatise on Artillery”; on surgery, there is “Liu Juanzi’s Ghostly Remains”; “Treatise on the Origin of Diseases” is a monograph on etiology, and “Cranial fontanelle” is a monograph on pediatrics; “Xinxiu Ben Cao” is the first pharmacopoeia in the world; ophthalmology monographs include “Yin Hai Jing Wei” and so on. In addition, there were also large prescription books in the Tang Dynasty, such as Sun Simiao’s “Thousand Gold Essentials” and Wang Tao’s “Secret Essentials of Wai Tai”. The economic prosperity of the Tang Dynasty (618 – 907 AD) promoted the development of traditional Chinese medicine. The Tang government took the lead in completing the compilation of the world’s first pharmacopoeial materia medica, the Tang Materia Medica. The whole book contained 850 kinds of medicines and also added drug atlases, which further improved the scale pattern of traditional Chinese medicine. In the Song Dynasty (960 – 1279 AD) medical education, there was a major reform in the teaching of acupuncture and moxibustion. Wang Weiyi authored the “Bronze Man Acupuncture and Moxibustion Chart”, and later, he designed and manufactured two equivalently large acupuncture and moxibustion bronze men for students to practice when teaching. This initiative had a great impact on the development of acupuncture in later generations. During the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644), a group of medical doctors proposed to separate the disease areas of typhoid, warm disease and warm epidemic. By the Qing Dynasty, the doctrine of warm diseases reached a mature stage with the appearance of monographs such as the Treatise on Warmth and Fever. From the Ming Dynasty, Western medicine was introduced to China, and a group of medical scholars advocated the “convergence of Chinese and Western medicine”, which became the pioneer of the contemporary combination of Chinese and Western medicine. In the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644), the medical scientist Li Shizhen spent 27 years to complete the masterpiece of Chinese herbal medicine, “The Compendium of Materia Medica”, which contained 1892 kinds of medicines and became the greatest integrated work in the history of Chinese materia medica. What is the highest level of Chinese medicine? It is to achieve neutralization. If it is cold, it is hot; if it is hot, it is cold. To achieve neutralization. The cold should let the heat, heat should be cold, knots should be dispersed, the escape should be labor, labor should escape. The smallest one is contrary to the smallest one, you can go against it. The even from the, you can not go against it, you go against it you will collapse on no more. The upper and lower, the bath of the Mo, the thin of the robbery, the appropriate thing for the reason, just the right thing is good. It is the highest level of peace and harmony. The most important philosophical proposition in the book “The Mean” is the idea of “to be in harmony”. The Book of the Mean says, “To be in the middle is the essence of the world; to be in harmony is the way of the world. To achieve neutral harmony, the heavenly position is absent, and all things are nurtured.” What it says is that harmony is the ideal state of existence for all things in the world. To achieve this ideal state through various means is to achieve harmony. Then heaven and earth will have their own place, and everything will grow and develop. It can be said that the physiological mechanism of “harmony between yin and yang” and “the secret of yin and yang” as enunciated in Chinese medicine is the best expression of Confucianism’s idea of achieving harmony. Under this ultimate goal, TCM uses the doctrine of essence, yin and yang, and the five elements, three theories from classical Chinese philosophy, to specifically explain the secrets of life. There are several titles commonly used in TCM: The first pronoun is manifold. This name comes from the Yellow Emperor’s Classic of Internal Medicine. Because it was a monograph in which the Yellow Emperor discussed medicine with Jibe, it was called the “Yellow Emperor’s Classic of Internal Medicine”. Naturally, manifold became an alias for Chinese medicine. The second pronoun is called Qing Nang. This name is now known to very few users. Its origin is related to Hua Tuo, a famous doctor during the Three Kingdoms period. It is said that before Hua Tuo was killed, he gave a prison guard a green bag full of medical books in return for his kindness of serving him with wine and meat. After Hua Tuo’s death, the jailer also practiced medicine, so that some of Hua Tuo’s medical skills were passed down. The third pronoun called Xinglin. The beginning of this name is also related to the Three Kingdoms. According to some information, there was a famous doctor named Dong Feng in Wu during the Three Kingdoms, who once lived in seclusion in Mount Lu in Jiangxi. Nearby people are known to seek medical treatment, but Dong Feng never charged money, only to be cured of minor illnesses planted an apricot tree, serious illnesses were cured to plant five apricot trees. After a few years, the apricot trees in front of Dong Feng’s door became an endless forest. From then on, people called Chinese medicine as apricot forest. The fourth pronoun is called the Hanging Kettle. Legend has it that Fei Changfang of Runan, Henan Province, saw a gourd hanging from the pole of an old man selling medicine on the street, and strangely enough, the old man jumped into the gourd after the street was dark. In order to find out the details, Fei Changfang was treated with wine, and the old man later asked him to enter the gourd with him, only to see that the gourd was just like a beautiful, sweet food and wine. Fei Changfang then took the old man as his teacher and learned the way to cultivate immortality. After a few years, he became a master of the art and left the mountain. He was given a bamboo staff to cure ghosts, and has been practicing medicine ever since. Since then, the gourd hanging around the doctor’s waist and in front of the clinic has become the symbol of Chinese medicine. After the introduction of modern medicine into China, Chinese medicine was also called “Imperial Chinese Medicine”. In Japan, Chinese medicine is called “Chinese medicine”. The origin of Chinese medicine can be found everywhere in the world’s articles and in the writing of the Apricot Grove. Yes, the Chinese nation has a long history and a long history of civilization, and Chinese medicine has been around for more than five years since its birth. A hundred flowers bloom, a hundred schools of thought is a happy and congratulatory thing; big reason to say, can inherit and carry forward the culture of the Chinese nation and the cause of medicine and health, small reason to say, can help more people understand the knowledge of medicine and health, tea and dinner pastime. This article is only my personal thoughts and views, and has no right to represent the views of others, therefore, I am also in the mood to share my thoughts with everyone. First of all, if we pay attention to the title, we will find that it has two key words – Chinese medicine and origin. Let’s start with the definition of these two words and go from the shallow to the deep, and gradually reach the center of the article – the origin of Chinese medicine. What is Chinese medicine? First of all, it is easy to understand, by looking at it, that TCM is a medical science. What kind of medicine is TCM, and why is the word “Chinese” added in front of the word “medicine”? Standing on the land of the Chinese nation, it is easy to understand that Chinese medicine is a traditional medicine with a unique theoretical system, rich experience and means of health care and treatment, which includes the basic theory of Chinese medicine, Chinese preventive medicine and Chinese clinical medicine. Chinese traditional medicine includes Han medicine, Tibetan medicine, Mongolian medicine, Zhuang medicine, Yi medicine, etc. We are accustomed to call Chinese medicine mostly refers to the traditional medicine of Han people. This is the concept of Chinese medicine, which does not look very complicated and profound, but in fact, Chinese medicine embraces the traditional culture and thought of the Chinese nation, which can be said to be vast and profound! Having said that, we have to briefly touch upon the theoretical basis of TCM, the health care methods of TCM, and the treatment methods of TCM. Among them, the theoretical system of Chinese medicine is: the ancient materialistic and dialectical ideas – the theory of Yin and Yang and the five elements, the holistic view, the physiology and pathology of organs and meridians, and the discriminatory treatment. The means of diagnosis and treatment in Chinese medicine are the four diagnostic methods of looking, smelling, asking and cutting, and the treatment methods of internal and external medicine, acupuncture, gua sha, tui na and cupping. The TCM doctor is to apply these theoretical methods, through these clinical techniques to achieve the white angel mission of treating diseases and saving people, saving lives and helping the injured. The term “origin”, which is better understood, is interpreted as a source, referring to the origin of something. However, it should be noted, here is not to find out the origin of medicine, nor to find out the origin of Chinese medicine, to be precise, we are here to find out the origin of Chinese traditional medicine. To synthesize what has been said above, that is, we need to figure out where the theoretical system, clinical treatment experience and means of traditional Chinese medicine come from. Some of the preceding texts simply explain the concepts and analyze the meanings, with the aim of facilitating our entry into the subject – dissecting the origin of Chinese medicine. In history, there have long been differences and debates about the origin of Chinese medicine, and the following are several mainstream views, which we will discuss one by one. The first viewpoint: medicine originated from witchcraft. At the end of primitive society, productivity had improved to a certain extent, and people gradually realized that many natural phenomena were closely related to the social life of human beings, and they wanted to control these natural phenomena themselves. However, the level of human thinking and productivity at that time was still low, there was no way to objectively understand and control the sun, moon, lightning, disease and other phenomena, so they deified these phenomena and worshiped them in their hearts, and put their hearts into worship and some “superstitious activities”, hoping to change their own situation. This is the earliest religious superstition, the concept of ghosts and gods. At the same time, there was an initial division of labor in society at this stage of history, with the emergence of private property and exploitation, and the emergence of the witch, who was in charge of rituals and prayers. The witches worked on behalf of the interests of the illustrious, and they often had some medical knowledge and often took on the function of healing the sick. When people asked the witch to treat their illnesses or relieve their suffering, the witch either practiced witchcraft, used medical techniques, or used both medicine and witchcraft. In this way, some people may think that medicine originated from witchcraft. In fact, this argument that medicine originates from witchcraft is not very objective. There are two main reasons for this. One of them is that medicine preceded witchcraft. What we call medicine is for human beings, not for dogs or cats, that is, if there were no human beings there would be no so-called medicine as we call it now. Next, medicine is used by people to treat diseases. Since the beginning of mankind, living in a chaotic world, life, old age, sickness and death are always disturbing to the gods, people want to be free from this trouble, so they have the desire and demand to change the bad physical condition, and this is the source of medicine. In summary, that is, with human beings, there is also medicine. Of course, at that time, this “medicine” did not necessarily form a system and did not necessarily become a discipline, but it certainly existed, because human suffering comes from birth, and the desire to get rid of illnesses and to be happy also comes from itself. Witchcraft, on the other hand, arose at the end of primitive society. Therefore, it is impossible for medicine to have originated from witchcraft. However, we cannot deny that the activities of the witch contributed a lot to the relief of people’s suffering at that time, and had a considerable positive impact on the spread of medicine and its subsequent progress. We cannot say that medicine originated from witch because witch has some of the functions of a doctor, nor can we throw down the eighteen levels of hell because witch has a divine and ghostly component. Secondly, there are many witches. After all, the witch is a very small part of the population, representing the interests of the nobles. Their simple and crude medical knowledge and medical techniques are far from being able to meet the needs of the general public’s suffering. If we say that medicine originated from witch, we are making a mistake of individualism (if we say mistake, it seems to be a bit serious, originally the words are just symbols, just represent it). The second view: medicine originated from the sage. According to legend, Shennong tasted a hundred herbs and wrote the “Classic of Materia Medica”, which is a good story of medical history passed down through the ages. I believe that many of us have read some medical works, such as the Yellow Emperor’s “Nei Jing”, Zhang Zhongjing’s “Treatise on Typhoid”, Li Shizhen’s “Compendium of Materia Medica” and so on, which are all great works and have made great contributions to the development of traditional medicine in China, and we later tend to honor Shennong, the Yellow Emperor, Zhang Zhongjing, Li Shizhen and so on as saints. So, can we just say that medicine originated from the sages? I can say with certainty: it is wrong to say that medicine originated from the saints. Why? Saints can be counted as many mortals. If we put the laurel that medicine originates from saints on this very small number of people, then we are exaggerating, attributing the medical knowledge formed by primitive human beings over a long period of time to the creation of only a few saints, or even deifying saints, which is contrary to the law of development of human history. History books tell us that history is the history created by human beings, not by a few so-called heroes. It is individual heroism to think that medicine originated from the saints. In fact, whether it is the saints on the register or the medical forefathers of Moko, they did make indelible merits for the formation and development of Chinese medicine, and wrote epoch-making medical chapters in the historical period in which they lived. We can express our gratitude and admiration with gratitude and reverence, and we can exaggerate by saying that they created medicine. But as a study of the history of Chinese medicine, we still cannot accept that medicine originated from the saints. Just think, without the vast and vast masses providing diseases, how can there be medicine, let alone medicine? The third view: medicine originates from the instinct of animals. Many animals will have their own instinctive behavior to heal themselves after being hurt, and these phenomena are easy to see in our daily life. Now our production level has increased, look at our own family pets will know, in large and medium-sized cities, a considerable number of families have pets. If they have lice on their bodies, they will use their paws to scratch on their bodies and even catch the lice, which is their instinct of self-protection. It has also been found that African bears will eat calamus to cure diseases, and in ancient times in China, we have also observed that tigers eat green clay to save themselves after being poisoned by arrows. These are similar to the original human medical treatment. Therefore, some people say that medicine originated from animal instincts. I would like to say: this view is not objective. As we mentioned earlier, there is a human being who has the ability to heal, so we can easily determine that it is wrong to say that medicine originates from animal instincts. Instead of saying that medicine originates from animal instincts, people who hold this view should say that medicine originates from human instincts. This view ignores the difference between humans and animals. Humans can make and use tools and engage in creative and productive activities, whereas animals cannot. Humans can summarize these experiences of fighting diseases, think deeply, discover methods, drugs and tools that can cure diseases, and use these methods, drugs and tools to cure diseases, thus accomplishing creative labor in medicine. Therefore, the claim that medicine originates from animal instincts is false. Of course, these instincts of animals are of some significance to the emergence and development of Chinese medicine. By observing the instinctive activities of animals, people can gain insights from them and then apply them to the practice of medicine and health by integrating what they have seen. In this sense, we can say that Chinese medicine can benefit from the instincts of animals, but we cannot say that Chinese medicine originated from the instincts of animals. All of the above-mentioned theories of origin are incorrect, so how exactly did TCM originate? The more orthodox view now is that the origin of Chinese medicine comes from the practice of human production and life, especially the practice of fighting against diseases. Early humans were extremely poor in knowledge of nature, and their diet was quite crude, often resulting in vomiting, diarrhea, coma and other toxic reactions due to the accidental consumption of some poisonous plants, which could cause death in serious cases. In order to protect themselves, humans analyze and summarize what can make them sick, after countless attempts and experience, gradually gained some knowledge to identify food and poison, and also found that after eating some plants can relieve or relieve the pain of disease. So, when similar diseases occurred again, they would instinctively take certain plants, and after countless times of practice, this conscious experience was retained and developed and improved; this is the emergence of knowledge of botanical medicine. After mankind entered the agricultural age, people gained further knowledge of plants and made more conscious use of them in their lives to cure diseases. After plant medicine, human beings acquired the knowledge of animal medicine and mineral medicine through production and life practice. This is how Chinese medicine emerged from the repeated practice of production and life, especially the practice of fighting against diseases. We know from textbooks that labor created human beings and civilization and history, and that the practice of life is the basis of human social activities. It is logical that medical knowledge comes from human production and life practice, and Chinese medicine is the summary of human practice, especially the practice of fighting against diseases. The above-mentioned is just a simple list of words. To further investigate the origin of Chinese medicine is not something that can be done in just a few words. In addition, the present level of social science cannot completely solve all the things around us, including the origin of Chinese medicine, so those who are interested can study themselves, initiate discussions and consult each other.