傳統中醫之現代定義
The Definition of Traditional Chinese Medicine
村里武林高手如雲。擂台比武熱項之一乃“中醫 vs 西醫”。本人奇好炎黃文化,讀罷幾乎所有關於中醫的帖子,但仍未能理出個頭緒來。突然在腦記憶單元中冒出了一句東坡名言:“不識廬山真面目,只緣身在此山中。” 而恍然大悟。以下是在山外的老美學堂裡教的傳統中醫的定義:
In the terminology of Medical Anthropology, any healthcare system occurred on our planet is always a bio-culture synthesis (http://www.cudenver.edu/sma/index.html.). There are many definitions for Traditional Chinese Medicine in history. In our class today, we provide a simplified and more precise definition of TCM:中華醫學是會聚上下八千年,纵横千萬里,一個勤勞智慧勇敢民族的醫藥文化文明的結晶貢獻。
本定義之數學表達是 Our logical expression of TCM in mathematics is the integration over the space and time:
TCM = ∫x∫y∫z∫t CC x (HM + HT) dxdydzdt ***
*** Where CC stands for Chinese Culture 中華文化, HM for Herbalic Medicine 中華本草, HT for Holistic Therapies 中華針砭; ∫x∫y∫z dxdydz is the space 地域 integration cover the land about 2.5 billion acres and ∫t dt is the time integration of the history and prehistory 歷史加史前史 over 8,000 years.