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Adaptation is an eternal theme of biological evolution. The paper aims at exploring the conception of positive correlation between traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) and human homeostatic evolution based on medical perspective. Discussions mainly involve TCM conforming to natural laws and natural evolution of life, spontaneous harmonization of yin and yang and operating system of human self-healing, modern human immunology and human endogenous immune function in TCM, self-homeostasis of human micro-ecological state and balance mechanism on regulating base in TCM, as well as adaptation—eternal theme of biological evolution and safeguarding adaptability—value of TCM. In perspective of medicine, theory and practice of TCM are in positive correlation with human homeostatic evolution, and what TCM tries to maintain is human intrinsic adaptive capability to disease and nature. Therefore, it is the core value of TCM, which is to be further studied, explored, realized and known to the world.
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Supported by the Soft Scientific Project of Henan Province (No. 102400440059) and the Philosophy and Social Science Program of Henan Province, China (No. 2011FYY014)
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Wang, Jh. Traditional Chinese medicine and the positive correlation with homeostatic evolution of human being: Based on medical perspective. Chin. J. Integr. Med. 18, 629–634 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11655-012-1170-3
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