Since the existence of human beings, there have been medical activities, our ancestors in order to survive and reproduce, in the fight against disease, while searching for food, discovering and recognizing the herbs to cure diseases, the former people put this exploration process as "Shennong tasted all kinds of herbs" or "food and medicine with the same origin This process of exploration was called "Shen Nong tasted a hundred herbs" or "food and medicine come from the same source. In the life of human beings, ancient people invented acupuncture stones and stone needles as medical tools. In the Neolithic era, stone tools became powerful tools for human beings to transform and conquer nature, and also became instruments for treating diseases. Our ancestors used "stone" and "needle" to cut open abscess cavities and discharge pus to treat abscesses, and the first "stone therapy" appeared. The first "stone acupuncture therapy". According to the Classic of Mountains and Seas: "Gao's mountain, there is a stone like jade, can be a needle." "Shuowen Jiezi" notes; "acupuncture, to stone prick disease also." Ancient artifacts unearthed in the past, there are alum stone found at this time also appeared to use the animal's horn, similar to today's cupping therapy of the "horn method". These belong to the earliest surgical instruments, can be said to be the origin of the traditional characteristics of the therapy
Spring and Autumn and Warring States period, "all the sons of the bee, a hundred schools of thought", to promote the development of medicine, the traditional characteristics of the therapy has made great progress. 1973 Changsha, Hunan Province, Mawangdui Tomb No. 3, unearthed in the ancient book of "fifty-two disease formula", is the earliest clinical medical literature, the first record of clinical medical science, and the first time to find out what is the most important thing. The earliest clinical medical literature, recorded external treatments include compresses, medicinal baths, fumigation, massage, ironing, counseling, moxibustion, corrosion and a variety of surgical procedures. The first wine washed wounds, opening the source of surgical disinfection. The introduction of the Yellow Emperor's Classic of Internal Medicine laid a solid theoretical foundation for the development of surgical therapeutics, systematically established the principles of traditional external treatment, and proposed external treatment methods such as acupuncture, moxibustion, acupuncture, massage, ironing, and compresses.
Traditional characteristic therapy of traditional Chinese medicine is a special therapy in Chinese medicine, which has a profound historical foundation, and has a medical therapeutic method that is easily accepted by modern people, especially working people, and it is also called "Appropriate Technology of Traditional Chinese Medicine
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