Comparative Research On Yoga And Traditional Chinese Medicine

This subject was aimed at enriching and developing the traditional methods of health care and treatment of TCM, introducing the yoga which came from India and had a long history and perfect system systematically, proving the common points and similarities of these two subjects in the aspect of preserving health, and discussing whether the method of preserving life in Yoga could be used by science of health preserving of TCM to improve the effect of health preservation and disease prevention.Relative theory of health preserving in Yoga was systemically arranged through consulting documents on Indian culture, philosophy of Yoga and science of health preserving of TCM. The similarity and difference of those two aspects mentioned above was carded and explored, the advantages and disadvantages of each aspect were discussed, the useful reference which could be got from Yoga for the TCM health care and life preserving were also discussed by theoretical analysis and comparison.Such conclusions could be made through comparison and summarization that Yoga and science of health preserving of TCM took the same source of thoughts on"the integration of man and nature", a lot of common points in the method of health preserving, diet adjustment and so on could be found between the two subjects, some health preserving methods in Yoga could be taken as useful reference to perfect the system of science of health preserving of TCM to improve the effect of health preserving.