2023-2024学年高中英语社团第七讲中医 讲义

英语社团第七讲----中医简介 Introduction of Traditional Chinese Medicine 中医，中医学，是一种治疗方法和一种关于如何保持健康的理论。中医中的诊断主要靠“望闻问切”等多种形式。医生观察病人的舌头、听患者的声音，询问病人的生活习惯和病史，并摸病人的脉搏来作出诊断。中医疗法强调触觉刺激。医生用的按摩、刮痧、拔罐的工具在日常生活中随处可见。 Traditional Chinese medicine (TCM), zhong yi, is a therapy and a theory on how to stay healthy. Diagnosis in zhong yi comes from various forms of observation, including visual, auditory, olfactory, tactile and questioning. The doctor observes a patient’s tongue, voice, inquires about the patient’s habits and medical history and feels the patient’s pulse to make a diagnosis. Therapies in zhong yi, emphasize tactile stimulation. Doctors give massage. Tools for Gua Sha and cupping are easily found in daily life. 中草药是从天然植物中挑选出来的，经过加工可以治疗不同的疾病。中医认为，人体有自己的功能系统。只要身体系统保持平衡，人就是健康的。 Herbal medicines are selected from natural plants and are processed to cure different diseases. Zhong yi prescribes to the belief that the human body has its own functioning system. People are healthy as long as their body system remains balanced. 中医的历史 History of TCM 在远古时代，中华民族的祖先发现了一些动植物可以解除病痛，积累了一些用药知识。随着人类的进化，开始有目的地寻找防治疾病的药物和方法，所谓“神农尝百草”、“药食同源”，就是当时的真实写照。 In remote antiquity, the ancestors of the Chinese nation chanced to find that some creatures and plants could serve as remedies for certain ailments and pains, and came to gradually master their application. As time went by, people began to actively seek out such remedies and methods for preventing and treating diseases. Sayings like “Shennong (Celestial Farmer) tasting a hundred herbs” and “food and medicine coming from the same source” are characteristic of those years.  中医的特点 Characteristics of TCM 在数千年的发展过程中，中医不断吸收和融合各个时期先进的科学技术和人文思想，不断创新发展，理论体系日趋完善，技术方法更加丰富，形成了鲜明的特点。第一，重视整体。第二，注重“平”与“和”。第三，强调个体化。第四，突出“治未病”。第五，使用简便。 During its course of development spanning a couple of millennia, TCM has kept drawing and assimilating advanced elements of natural science and humanities. Through many innovations, its theoretical base covered more ground and its remed