浅谈中医药工程学与自然医学

本扼要阐述了自然医学的悠久历史和广泛的学科内涵，传统中医药学是该领域的主要学科。国家提出的“中医药学现代化、产业化、国际化”也是自然医学的发展战略。近代以来中医药学发展的特点是与多门类的现代科学和工程技术相融合，走出了运用“多学科、多手段，多途径”发展自身的科学道路，从而产生了一边缘学科－中医药工程学。章进一步论述了这一新学科与中医药学和自然医学的亲缘关系，并从新学科的内涵和二十年的科学实践对实现上述发展战略的重要作用。

Technology of Chinese Medical Engineering (TCME) and the Natural Medicine

This article refers to the long history and wide connotation of natural medicine, the main subject of which is TCM.The stratagem to realize the modernization, industrialization and internationalization of TCM advanced by our nation is also that of natural medicine.In recent years, the features of the development of TCM is combining with multi - subjects of modem science and engineering technology, developing itself by multi voutes and through multi approaches, coming into being a new subject of TCME.In this article, the author discussed the close relationships between TCM and natural medicine, talking about the significance of realizing the development stratagem mentioned above through the connotation of this new subject and the scientific practice in twenty years.