The similarity of the theoretical positions of traditional Chinese medicine and some medical schools of ancient Greece
AUTHORS : Lazarenko V.G.
RELEVANT UNIVERSITIES : Faculty of advanced training for doctors, Izhevsk State Medical Academy, Izhevsk
YEAR : 2011
RESUME The content of certain works of Ancient Greek philosophers and physicians shows no fundamental contradictions between the eastern and western medicine in ancient times. Empedocles (V century. BC) and Alcmaeon (IV century. BC) used principles similar to those of the basics of Traditional Chinese Medicine: dualism, the doctrine of continuous interconversion of primary elements, the circulation of vital energy through the channels other than blood
vessels. This suggests that there is no reason for radical opposition of the eastern and western medicine, because of their considerable theoretical unity.
Keywords: theoretical foundations, Empedocles, Alcmaeon, Traditional Chinese
Medicine, Ancient Greece.
