What It Does 中医能做什么
Chinese medicine is a complete medical system that has diagnosed, treated, and
中医是一个完整的医学系统 它已经诊断,治疗,
prevented illness for over twenty-three centuries. While it can remedy ailments
预防疾病超过了2300年
and alter states of mind, Chinese medicine can also enhance recuperative power
中医在减轻病痛, 改善智力的同时, 还可以增加恢复能力,
, immunity, and the capacity for pleasure, work, and creativity.
提高免疫力, 以及对快乐,劳动,创造的接受力.
How It Thinks 中医是怎样思维的
Within Chinese Cosmology, all of creation is born from the marriage of two
在中国人的世界观里, 所有的事物都是诞生于阴阳这两个对立统一的原则
polar priciples, Yin and Yang: Earth and Heaven, winter and summer, night and
如地与天, 冬与夏 夜与昼
day, cold and hot, wet and dry, inner and outer, body and mind.
寒与热, 湿与干, 内与外, 肉体与思维
Harmony of this union means health, good weather, and good fortune, while
. 这些统一体的协调就意味着健康, 风和日丽, 好运
disharmony leads to disease, disaster, and bad luck. The strategy of Chinese
而不协调就会导致 疾病, 灾难, 厄运.
medicine is to restore harmony.
中医的宗旨就是重新建立协调.
Each human is seen as a world in miniature, a garden in which doctor and
每一个人都是一个缩小的世界, 就像花园一样, 医生和病人一起耕耘着健康之花
patient together strive to cultivate health. Every person has a unique terrain
每个人都有一个独特的地带需要被探测
to be mapped, a resilient yet sensitive ecology to be aintained.
一个有弹性而又敏感的生态需要被维持.
Like a gardener uses irrigation and compost to grow robust plants, the doctor
就像园丁通过灌溉,施肥让花草茁壮成长