Abstract
Abstract There is a growing need to understand traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) in modern scientific terms. TCM possesses the dual attributes of science and the humanities. At present, medical science and technology are progressing, while humanistic ethics are being neglected. TCM embodies the interaction between imagery and conceptual thinking, which can be explained from the following three aspects: imagery as an internal driving force for cultural rejuvenation, return to the true self and guarding of the root of life, and cosmology (harmony between man and nature). In the post-modern era, “people-oriented” medical values will lead to integrations between science and humanities, holism and reductionism, imagery-based thinking and conceptual thinking, systematic research and descriptive research, and evidence-based medicine and narrative medicine.
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