The Re-evaluation On The Effects Of Neo-confucianism To The Traditional Chinese Medicine

On the foundation of historical tracing of the interaction of Chinese traditional culture and traditional Chinese medicine, synthesized to utilize science of history, philosophy, document study, logistics and occurring study etc. method, the author analyzed the change in the traditional Chinese medicine theories in the influence of the transition from the philosophical generative theory to the philosophical ontology, and re-evaluated the important roles which the neo-confucianism played in the building of the traditional Chinese medicine theories.This article pointed out that the traditional Chinese medicine of Ming dynasty formed the the theory of Ming men with effects of the neo-confucianism ontology that was different from the classical physiology in the Yellow Emperor's Classic of Internal Medicine. Moreover, much more reasonable and moderate attention should be put to the yields of the correlative study between neo-confucianism and the traditional Chinese medicine, such as the Zhou Yi medicine, Ming men theory of Ming dynasty, the relationship between neo-confucianism and TCM School of Jin dynasty and Yuan dynasty.Key words: The Re-evaluation; The Traditional Chinese Medicine/TCM; The philosophical generative theory; The philosophical ontology; Ming men theory...