[Explanation] In recent years, traditional Chinese medicine has achieved good results in the treatment of critical illnesses and has harvested many research results, which has received attention and recognition from the world medical community.
Acupuncture, cupping and other traditional Chinese medicine treatment methods are also favored by many international friends.
Recently, Wu Kai, head of the Institute of Western Studies of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Yunnan University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, accepted an exclusive interview with China News Agency "Dongxi Wen" to discuss the topic of overseas dissemination of traditional Chinese medicine.
[Explanation] Wu Kai believes that the overseas dissemination of traditional Chinese medicine with clear historical records occurred in Jianzhen Dongdu in the Tang Dynasty.
As early as more than 2,000 years ago, traditional Chinese medicine has been spread to China's neighboring countries along the Silk Road that originated in the Han Dynasty.
[Concurrent] Wu Kai, head of the Institute of Western Medicine of Yunnan University of Traditional Chinese Medicine
In the second period of great voyages, we can roughly infer that it was actually Westerners who were curious about the East, came to China, came to the world, and searched for these knowledge resources in large quantities, and brought these things with them.
Traditional Chinese medicine is a part of Chinese civilization that they brought to the past. At this time, our "Compendium of Materia Medica" and a large number of our books actually passed away.
[Explanation] In modern times, a group of experts and scholars who came to China took the initiative to conduct research on traditional Chinese medicine, which had a profound impact on cultural exchanges between China and the West.
George Soulie De Morant, born in Paris, France in 1878, was the first person to bring clinical Chinese medicine into the Western medical system.
His book "The Method of Acupuncture and Moxibustion" is still a textbook for Westerners to learn acupuncture and moxibustion.
[Concurrent] Wu Kai, head of the Institute of Western Medicine of Yunnan University of Traditional Chinese Medicine
On the one hand, he (Su Lie) translated these Chinese classics of traditional Chinese medicine, and on the other hand, combined with the clinical practice in France at that time, he wrote this "Acupuncture and Moxibustion Method".
Therefore, it should be said that at that time, he had a lot of valuable experience in the practice of Chinese medicine in France through the study of Chinese medicine in this book.
[Explanation] In recent years, the establishment of the World Federation of Acupuncture and Moxibustion Societies and the World Federation of Chinese Medicine Societies in China, the implementation of the "Chinese Medicine Law of the People's Republic of China", and the promotion of the "Belt and Road" initiative, etc., have allowed the overseas dissemination of traditional Chinese medicine to enter a new stage.
Data from China's State Administration of Traditional Chinese Medicine shows that traditional Chinese medicine has now spread to 196 countries and regions in the world.
[Explanation] Through field investigations conducted by the research team of Yunnan University of Traditional Chinese Medicine in France, the United Kingdom and the United States, it was found that many TCM researchers and TCM physicians in Western countries did not simply "copy" and "paste" traditional Chinese medicine. , but to adapt Chinese medicine to the local environment or to collide with different fields, resulting in a large number of innovations and creations.
[Concurrent] Wu Kai, head of the Institute of Western Medicine of Yunnan University of Traditional Chinese Medicine
Even one of them wrote Chinese medicine into a song to sing, why?
Because he couldn't remember the names of these acupuncture points in traditional Chinese medicine, and he couldn't remember these formulas.
So he sings the names of the acupoints, sings these heavenly stems and earthly branches, sings these things, enjoys himself, and teaches these things to his students.
Before each class, he sang a section with the guitar. After the students applauded, and the atmosphere came up, he started to lecture.
[Explanation] Yunnan University of Traditional Chinese Medicine established the key discipline of "Anthropology of Traditional Chinese Medicine" in 2012.
The Museum of Western Medicine of Traditional Chinese Medicine, located on the campus, collects special galleries of experts in Western Chinese Medicine such as Su Lie and Lu Wei Ai, as well as nearly 3,000 objects, photos, documents from Western Europe and North America, and more than 150 hours of audio-visual materials, which are relatively complete. , In-depth display of the history, development and current situation of the localized Chinese medicine of Western learning.
[Explanation] Wu Kai believes that after Chinese medicine goes overseas, it brings the concepts of "preventive treatment" and "health preservation" that are missing in Western medicine into the world medical system, which plays an important role in promoting the development of world medicine.
In the process of using and disseminating TCM, overseas TCM researchers and physicians have well promoted Chinese traditional culture to overseas people.
[Concurrent] Wu Kai, head of the Institute of Western Medicine of Yunnan University of Traditional Chinese Medicine
One of the great charms of Chinese traditional medicine going overseas is that it acts as a mirror, and the other is to help others to truly solve their problems, to truly solve the problems of their current medical system, and it is also possible that traditional Chinese medicine can promote Western medicine. develop.
Therefore, this is also the intangible cultural heritage that has called for the protection of China in recent years, calling for the protection of Chinese traditional culture, calling for the Chinese people to be more confident, and how to be confident is to find some of the roots of our Chinese civilization.
Reporter Du Xiaoxiao and Han Shuai report from South Kunming
Responsible editor: [He Sanli]