Theoretical System of Ecocare and Its Applications in Health Care and Product Development of Traditional Chinese Medicine

Abstract

Abstract Ecocare methodology is a science of health care, which focuses on human health and the relationship between human body and its external environment using modern ecological balance theory and basic theory of traditional Chinese medicine (TCM). It is the reflection of natural healthy principle of “correspondence between man and universe,” the concept of holism of “body-soul unity,” the idea of “prevention treatment of disease” that prevention is more important than therapy and the methodology of treatment combined with rehabilitation through care, rest, and nourishment and treatment focusing on relieving both the secondary and primary symptoms. In this system, its core values are a healthy attitude ( Yang xin ). Everyone should first determine his or her own appropriate ecological niche well, which is the best way to promote healthy and harmonious development. The core connotation of Ecocare is the balance of body ecosystem that is to achieve a relative balance between yin and yang of human tissue, organ, physiology, and psychology by removing the disadvantageous factors, replenishing the advantageous ones, and adjusting the body functions. The theory of Ecocare can be widely used in clinical TCM, health care by Chinese medicine, and research and development of TCM health products, as well as in agriculture, gardens, landscape, and leisure vacation designs for the demands of health care by Chinese Materia Medica.