Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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8339926 | Journal of Traditional Chinese Medical Sciences | 2017 | 7 Pages |
Abstract
The study of human body constitution and overall functional status is relatively unexplored territory in the field of modern medicine. This article discusses the possible confluences between traditional Chinese medicine (Chinese medicine) and the methods and concepts of complexity science. It also reveals that Chinese medicine, unlike biomedicine (Western medicine), uses a method of modeling to study the human body, and law and control methods from the perspective of functional state and viewpoint. To derive from there, in time of complexity science concept becoming the mainstream scientific idea of today, by adopting its methods and techniques, and introduce Chinese medicine theoretical model, methods and experience, to develop a holistic medicine that can reveal human body constitution and functional state. It will be the main direction for the development of the 21st century modern medicine.
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Authors
Bing Yuan,