从生物医学研究的角度理解中医的阴阳五行

摘要

“Yinyang and Wuxing” theories are the characteristics of Traditional Chinese Medicine( TCM) , how⁃ever, they are also the major hindrances impeding people to understand and accept TCM. Actually,"Yinyang"theory had been widely adopted to describe the positive and negative feedack mechanisms in biomedical research. In this paper, the author proposed that the “Wuxing theory” may also be explained using scientific language. If we looked “Wuxing” in TCM theory as five most fundamental and primary functions, instead of internal organs, we could understand TCM theory better on the point of modern sciences. Movever,"Yinyang and Wuxing”theory may help researchers to understand the essential pathogenesis of disease better, and prompt the modern medical research development to an integral direction.%“阴阳五行”是中医学形成的理论基础，也是阻碍中医现代化的最大障碍。实际上，“阴阳”已被广泛采纳用于描述生物医学研究领域的正、负反馈调节机制；而基于“五行”的脏腑理论或许也能够用科学语言解释———如果把中医“五脏”看成是五种生命最基本、最原始功能的代称，而“五行”描述了这些原始功能的特性和相互关系，或许能够缩小中医脏腑理论体系与现代科学之间的距离。不仅如此，“阴阳五行”理论有可能帮助科研者们更好地理解疾病的本质，推进现代医学研究朝着宏观、整体的方向发展。