中医的"取象比类"与比喻

中医学产生于经验医学时代,具有深厚的文化积淀,以其独特的形象思维方式,即“取象比类”,把抽象的医理寓于具体的物象之中,而比喻修辞则使“取象比类”成为一种可能。生理病理抑或诊治法则,一经比喻就不再是艰涩难懂的学术概念,而成为可眼观手触的身边物,凸现出辨证论治的丰富哲理和祖国医学的文化深蕴。

"Comparison" in Traditional Chinese Medicine and Metaphor

Traditional Chinese Medicine came out of the times of empiricism and was endowed with rich and profound culture.In its particular way of thinking in terms of images,it illustrates its abstract medical theories by means of comparing with all sorts of substantial objects or phenomena,which is made possible by metaphor.With a metaphor the complicated physiology,pathology and clinical principles are not profound academic concepts any more but something tangible.There stand out the rich philosophy of dialectical medical theory and the cultural profundity of traditional Chinese medicine.