It also includes the development history of modern acupuncture, the brief history of modern Chinese medicine, the history of integrated traditional Chinese and western medicine, and the history of traditional Chinese medicine. Traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) came into being in primitive society. During the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, the theory of TCM basically took shape, and branches of anatomy and medicine appeared, adopting "four diagnoses". Treatment methods include Bian Shi, acupuncture, decoction, moxibustion, dredging, gas distribution, wishing and so on. In the Western Han Dynasty, yin and yang and five elements were used to explain human physiology, and "medical workers", gold needles and bronze keys appeared. Zhang Zhongjing, a famous physician, appeared in the Eastern Han Dynasty. He has long understood the "eight cardinal principles" (yin and yang, exterior and interior, deficiency and excess, cold and heat) and summed up the "eight methods". Hua Tuo is famous for his mastery of surgery and anesthesia, and he also founded the "Five Birds Play" [6]. In the Tang Dynasty, Sun Simiao summarized the theories and experiences of his predecessors and collected more than 5,000 prescriptions for treatment based on syndrome differentiation. Because of his highest medical ethics, he was honored as the "King of Medicine". After the Tang Dynasty, China's medical theory and works were widely spread to Korea, Japan, Central Asia and West Asia. During the Song Dynasty, the government of the Song Dynasty established Hanlin Medical College, and the medical discipline was almost complete, which unified the disorder of acupoints caused by copying in China and published the illustrated classics. Since the Jin and Yuan Dynasties, Chinese medicine began to decline. After the Ming and Qing Dynasties, the school of febrile diseases appeared, which gradually replaced the school of classical Chinese medicine. Li Shizhen's Compendium of Materia Medica, written at the end of Ming Dynasty, marked the decline of TCM pharmacology. At the same time, both Mongolian medicine and Tibetan medicine are influenced by Chinese medicine. In North Korea, oriental medicine has also made great progress. For example, the Treasure of Oriental Medicine written by Xu Jun.
Since the late Qing Dynasty, China has been invaded by western powers, and its national fortune has been weakened. At the same time, the influx of modern medicine (western medicine) has seriously impacted the development of Chinese medicine. Many people in China advocate medical modernization, and traditional Chinese medicine has been greatly challenged. People began to look at it with the thinking mode of western medicine system, and Chinese medicine fell into a dispute of keeping or abolishing. The same is true of Japanese traditional Chinese medicine and Korean medicine, both of which belong to China's medical system. Since SARS in 2003, classical Chinese medicine began to show signs of recovery.
During the Cultural Revolution, Chinese medicine, as a medical paradigm of "serving the present with the past", was supported and developed by China's production party policy. Modern Chinese medicine is still one of the commonly used methods to treat diseases in China.
Internationally, acupuncture has aroused great interest in the medical field. According to the World Health Organization, acupuncture has been proved to be effective in relieving postoperative pain, nausea during pregnancy, nausea and vomiting caused by chemotherapy, toothache and so on, and the side effects are very low. However, for chronic pain, back pain and headache, the data are vague or controversial. . WHO believes that the effectiveness of many acupuncture and some herbs has been strongly supported by scientific double-blind research, but other traditional therapies still need further research, and the safety and danger of traditional therapies that have not yet been studied cannot be ignored [8]. On May 26th, 2002, WHO published the "Global Traditional Medicine Research Strategy for 2002-2005", inviting more than 80 countries around the world to incorporate alternative medicine into their medical policies.