Principles of traditional Chinese medicine
Meng, A.
Wiener Medizinische Wochenschrift 150(13-14): 310-316
2000
ISSN/ISBN: 0043-5341 PMID: 11075432 Document Number: 515408
The beginnings of traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) can be related to the three most important philosophic and religious personalities. Modern Western medicine (MM), which was already sensationally successful at that time, was brought to China by business men, missionaries and soldiers. Compared to MM, the theories of TCM seem abstract, its concept unusual. Historical hallmarks of TCM influenced by culture are the following: the medical system is philosophical, oriented towards humanism. TCM is a medical system without strict structural relationships (without anatomy).