[Ten-day Periodical of Traditional Chinese Medicine and its concept of confluence of Chinese and western medicine]

Zhonghua Yi Shi Za Zhi. 2016 Sep 28;46(5):285-288. doi: 10.3760/cma.j.issn.0255-7053.2016.05.006.
[Article in Chinese]

Abstract

The Ten-day Periodical of Traditional Chinese Medicine, a TCM Journal founded by the Xiamen Professional School of Traditional Chinese Medicine in July 1934, had published a lot of essays written by many TCM physicians that interpret the concept of traditional Chinese medicine by western medicine, offering the academic way of probing confluence of Chinese and Western Medicine in Xiamen. The aim of the Journal includes "developing TCM academy" and the "confluence of TCM with western medicine" , the exploration of TCM and the penetration of Chinese and western medicine, and getting rid of blind faith on "science" to set up the belief of TCM and to prove the ideas of visceral theory and its gasification by the anatomical knowledge of western medicine. The Journal envisaged the difference between the TCM and WM, avoided blind convergence, representing the academic inheritance and progress of the era. Although the essays published might have made a forced analogy by over-praising TCM, however, its exploration and convergence of TCM and the experiences are helpful to modern scholars to properly manage the relation of TCM and WM to face the future challenge consciously.

厦门国医专门学校1934年7月创办的《国医旬刊》,在近代中西医交会之际,刊载了众多中医师以西医知识阐释传统中医的文章,开启了当地中医界探索中西医汇通的学术路径。该刊坚持"发扬国医学术""融贯中西学说"的办刊理念,破除"科学"迷信,树立中医信念,用西医解剖知识佐证中医气化与脏腑理论,正视中西医差异,力戒盲目汇通,表现出学术的继承性和时代的进步性。所刊论说虽失之于穿凿附会、过誉中医之长,但对中西医汇通所做的探索和留下的经验,应能帮助当代学人更好地处理中西医学的关系,更加自觉地应对未来的挑战。.

Keywords: Confluence of Chinese and western medicine; Ten-day Periodical of Traditional Chinese Medicine; Wu Ruifu.

Publication types

  • Historical Article

MeSH terms

  • Academies and Institutes
  • History, 20th Century
  • Knowledge
  • Medicine, Chinese Traditional*
  • Periodicals as Topic / history*
  • Physicians