What is TCM? What are the classifications?

Traditional Chinese medicine refers to Chinese traditional medicine, which is a discipline that studies human physiology and pathology, as well as the diagnosis and prevention of diseases. It carries the experience and theoretical knowledge of ancient Chinese people in their struggle against diseases, and is a medical theory system gradually formed and developed through long-term medical practice under the guidance of ancient simple materialism and spontaneous discernment. In terms of research method, it takes the holistic view and similar view as the leading idea, the physiology and pathology of internal organs and meridians as the basis, and discriminatory treatment as the basis of diagnosis and treatment, with simple system theory, control theory, fractal theory and information theory content. Chinese medicine takes yin and yang and the five elements as the theoretical basis, and regards the human body as the unity of qi, form and spirit. Through the method of looking, smelling, inquiring and cutting, the four diagnoses are combined to explore the cause, nature and location of the disease, analyze the disease mechanism and the changes in the organs, meridians and joints, qi, blood and fluids in the human body, determine the waxing and waning of evil and positive, then derive the name of the disease, summarize the evidence type, and formulate the principle of “sweat”, “vomit”, “down”, “heal”, “warm”, “warm”, and “warm” by discriminating treatment. The treatment methods include “sweating, vomiting, downward, harmony, warming, clearing, tonic, elimination”, using Chinese medicine, acupuncture, tui-na, massage, cupping, qigong, food therapy and other treatment methods, so that the body can achieve the harmony of yin and yang and recovery. Classification of TCM: Internal medicine mainly treats external diseases and internal injuries. External diseases are caused by wind, cold, heat, humidity, dryness, fire and epidemics. Internal injury diseases mainly refer to miscellaneous diseases such as internal organs, meridians, qi, blood and fluid diseases. TCM gynecology mainly treats women’s menstrual diseases, hypochondriac diseases, infertility, pregnancy diseases, postpartum diseases, breast diseases, anterior yin diseases and miscellaneous gynecological diseases. TCM has certain advantages in treating gynecological diseases, such as dysfunctional uterine bleeding, infertility, endometriosis, polycystic ovary syndrome, and postmenopausal osteoporosis. Orthopedics is the discipline of preventing and treating injuries and diseases of bones and joints and their surrounding muscles and flesh. In ancient times, it belonged to the category of “ulcerative medicine”, also known as “bone setting”, “body setting”, “bone setting”, and “injury medicine”. “Injury” and so on. It has a rich academic content and remarkable medical achievements, and is an important part of Chinese medicine, which has had a profound impact on the prosperity of the Chinese people and the development of world medicine. TCM surgery mainly treats sores, galls, tumors, rocks, anal and intestinal diseases, male foreskin diseases, skin diseases and sexually transmitted diseases, traumatic diseases and peripheral vascular diseases. Pediatrics in TCM mainly treats pediatric diseases. Since the physiological and pathological characteristics of pediatric patients are different from those of adults, the treatment methods and medications are also different from those of adults. The main manifestations are: children have poor ability to resist external evil, and once the disease develops, the transmission of symptoms is rapid, which is very different from adults. Children are often unable to express the pain of the disease correctly, and the reaction and tolerance to drugs are also different from adults due to the delicate internal organs of children, so it is necessary to open a pediatric specialty. Chinese medicine acupuncture is the combined name of acupuncture and searing method. The acupuncture method is to pierce the milli-needle into the patient’s body according to certain acupuncture points, using twisting and lifting techniques to treat diseases through the stimulation of meridians and acupoints. The burning moxa is used to treat diseases through the stimulation of heat. Acupuncture is used for all kinds of diseases, including many functional and infectious diseases, as well as some organic diseases. Chinese medicine treats the untreated. Treating the untreated disease is a method of taking preventive or therapeutic measures to prevent the occurrence and development of disease. It is the basic law of the doctrine of cure in TCM. The treatment of untreated diseases contains three meanings: first, prevention of diseases before they occur, emphasizing regimen and prevention of diseases; second, prevention of their transmission after both diseases, emphasizing early diagnosis and early treatment, and timely control of the development and evolution of diseases; third, prevention of recurrence of diseases and cure of sequelae after prognosis. Guided by the holistic view of Chinese medicine, the Department of Traditional Chinese Medicine adopts minimally invasive treatment methods such as drug injection, surgical ligation and thread hanging, and at the same time uses integrated methods such as oral administration of Chinese medicine, fumigation, sitz bath and external application of Chinese medicine ointment, featuring “micro-trauma and micro-pain” and “short course and high therapeutic effect”. With the concept of “short course and high efficacy”, we can relieve the pain and improve the quality of life for patients with anorectal diseases.