Introduction                       


In ancient Chinese civilization,astronomy,mathematics,agriculture and medicine were the four advanced sciences maybe it is improper to call them science,but they were the really the four complete system of knowledge and skills development in ancient china. among them medicine is the only one that has never been replaced were western science and still plays the important role in protecting the health of Chinese
    Then there is a question . how tradition Chinese medicine, a classic system of medicine with out any connection with modern science,can still exists in spite of the fact modern medicine can basically meet the need or healthcare? is traditional Chinese medicine a science or just a collection of experience? does it still have the possibility and space to the further develop it self along its own orbit? is there any possibility that it may be replaced by modern medicine? these are questions frequently being asked 

 Recognition of Traditional Chinese Medicine 

among the Chinese people, few have never visited any tradition Chinese doctors or tried any tradition remedies in their life. even those who are healthy and have no chance no to try medicine know traditional Chinese medicine. though have no experience themselves,they would advise their relatives and friends to use traditional Chinese medicine to solve their health problems. there are some people who believed that traditional Chinese medicine is not scientific. but  when they are ill and cannot be helped by modern medicine,  they would change their mind and turn to traditional Chinese medicine.
     These phenomena are quite normal. think about the films Beijing people in new york and scraping. it will be helped you to understand these phenomena. in Beijing people in new york, A- chun was accused of maltreating child by her ex-husband when she asked traditional Chinese doctor to treat her child who suffered from arthralgia.  the similar case was also shown in scrapping in which the father was deprived of the guardianship of his son because he used scrapping therapy ( a folk remedy performed  by scrape the chest back with a coin or a piece of china in order to introduce subcutaneously bleeding.) to his treat son.

               Now western medicine is the basic method used to deal with medical problems. But why chinese people still believe traditional Chinese medicine and take Chinese herbal preparations ? why the chinese people could not understand the attitude of the westerns toward chinese medicine shown in these films  ? The reason is that in the mind of chinese  people , traditional chinese medicines is system of medicine and can cure diseases . The value of such recognition is significant. Without such recognition traditional chinese medicine cannot continue to exist under the condition that modern science had dominated over the fields of knowledge and the thinking of  common  people. Then there pops up a question deserving  further  consideration . That is why chinese people can recognize traditional chinese medicine when all the people take modern sciences as the foundation of knowledge structure and worship " science " in their hearts.
                    The common explanation about why chinese recognize TCM is that China is large both in territory and population . When Western medicine was introduced into China , it, for a long time , could not meet the need of the health care in vast rural areas and remote places . That is why TCM is always resorted to as a supplementary remedy. Another reason about such a phenomenon commonly accepted is that Chinese people are conservative and are accustomed to traditional practise.

      However the reality facing us today is that the price of chinese medicine is in no way lower than that of the western medicine. Obviously economy cannot fully explain such a tendency . One important point has to be noted . That is people usually turn to TCM  at any cost when western medicine has failed to solve their sufferings.
          Undoubtedly the secret based on which TCM continues its progress is not backwardness. Because the more advanced diagnostic instruments the modern medicine use, the more disease it can not cure. The methods of physics , chemistry and operation are efficient enough to change the natural state of the human body, however the diseases  caused by them are becoming more and more complicated . Such shortcomings of modern medicine have further enlarged the space for TCM to demonstrate its effect in restoring the natural state and functions of the human body.