最近,有关中医药的存废问题在国内弄得沸沸扬扬,出现了两种根本对立的观点。本刊对中医药是持存在与发展观点的,历年来在杂志上对中医药多有介绍。因此,我们特约请了我国著名中医肿瘤专家、中华医学会心身学会会长、上海中医药大学博士生导师何裕民教授写了这篇文章,来帮助读者认识这场中医药存废之争,让祖国的传统医学更好地为老年人的养生保健服务。 Recently, the question of the existence and abolition of traditional Chinese medicine has been soaring in the country that there have been two fundamentally contradictory views. The magazine holds the view of existence and development of traditional Chinese medicine, over the years in the magazine on the introduction of Chinese medicine. Therefore, we specially invited the famous TCM oncology expert of our country, Professor He Yumin, the president of Chinese Medical Association Psychological Society, and the doctoral tutor of Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine wrote this essay to help readers understand the controversy over traditional Chinese medicine and let the motherland Of traditional medicine to better serve the elderly’s health care.