Holistic medicine: A new medical system based on body constitution and functional status

摘要

At present, modern medicine is a scientific system in the following sense: it uses observation of static states and analysis of single factors to determine the relationship between structure and function in the human body in states of health and disease. Physiology and pathology are based on observation from multiple perspectives and at multiple levels. 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 21 st century modern medicine.