中医是第一门复杂性科学

复杂性科学是21世纪的科学,人是世界上最复杂的系统,中医原原本本地接触和认识了人的健康与疾病的复杂性,成为复杂性研究的先驱,是第一门复杂性科学。复杂性的本质特征是"超还原",西医近代以来的还原研究背离了复杂性,复杂性成为中西医学术的分水岭。中医所认识的健康与疾病的复杂性,最为典型的有:生气通天的开放性、"涌现"出来的整体性、比人体更复杂的生命运动结构、人体的结构由生命运动赋型、生命运动态的失常为"证"、不可"提纯"的病机、人的自组织与自主性、方剂把药性和药效复杂化。     

Precision Medicine: Towards Complexity Science Age

Precision medicine(PM) refers to the tailoring of the prevention and treatment strategies to the individual characteristics of each patient. Following the vigorous advocacy of the U.S. President Obama and China’s President Xi, PM has now become a hot topic of common concern worldwide. PM does not merely refer to the skill set level but rather a comprehensive medical methodology. Hence, there is PM that builds on the analytical methodology of Western medical system as well as PM that builds on Chinese medicine(CM). The differences between the two systems, fundamentally speaking, are the differences in methodology to describe the body constitution that based on reductionism and holism. Today, as science advances to complex systems, the mainstream analytical reductionism advances to the holistic synthesis era, it is imperative to introduce CM’s holistic body constitution to the modern medical system in order to progress to PM. PM with its foundation on holisticbody constitution, is a medical system that integrates Western medicine and CM, is the highest attainment of "PM" in the future.