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These treatment methods and drugs reflect the characteristics of “simplicity, convenience and cheapness”, which meet the medical needs of ordinary people. He also advocated that acupuncture and moxibustion should be used in combination with medicine, emphasizing that the position of moxibustion should only be measured on its scale, and not on the accurate acupuncture points. Most of the drugs recorded in the book are “cheap medicinal materials” which are found everywhere and easy to collect. He pays great attention to medicine facing the bottom of society. 5 Ge Hong, a Taoist physician and Taoist priest in the Eastern Jin Dynasty (317–420 AD), is a typical representative figure. Many Taoist doctors also write books to facilitate the treatment needs of poor people. Taoist doctors attach great importance to the medical needs of lower-class patients. In the process of the development and dissemination of Taoism, no matter whether for others or for themselves, it is necessary to treat diseases, and monks are duty-bound to treat diseases. Taoist physicians constantly put forward new theories, both rom the perspective of medical theory and clinical practice, and at the same time summarized and created many new treatment methods. These philosophical thoughts laid the foundation of Taoist medicine, which deeply influenced Taoist doctors’ views on nature, human body and life, and were embodied in various medical practices of Taoist medicine. The main methods in preserving health and treating diseases are nourishing and regulating qi. People are born if they have qi, and die if they do not have it. Qi is the matrix of all life, and Yin and Yang are sympathetic to produce all things. “One Qi” believes that the same “Qi” penetrates all things in the world. “Huai nanzi” says that Tao begins with One, One can be divided into Yin and Yang, Yin and Yang are harmonious and everything is born. All things leave behind them the Obscurity (out of which they have come), and go forward to embrace the Brightness (into which they have emerged), while they are harmonised by the Breath of Vacancy. “Tao Te Ching”, which is the Taoism classic works of pre Qin, says that: 4 Tao produces One, the One produces Two (Yin and Yang), and the Two produces Three (Yin, Yang and the exchange between Yin and Yang), then the Three generates all things. Another Taoist classic, “Zhou Yi Shen Tong Qi”, uses hexagrams and lines to match the Yin and Yang and the Five Elements to lay the theoretical foundation of Taoist golden alchemy. In the “Classic of Great Peace”, an early Taoist classic, the thought of Yin-Yang and Five Elements was also absorbed, which was used to examine the nature of everything in the world and explain the truth of meditation. Yin and Yang theory and Five Elements theory are typical important philosophical thoughts in ancient China. 3 The Yi-ology expounds the dynamic and static changes of Yin and Yang in everything in the world. Its theoretical basis includes the theory of Yin and Yang and Five Elements, the principle of induction between human and nature, and the monism of Qi. Taoist medicine originated from the philosophical thoughts in the pre-Qin period, especially the Yi-ology thoughts and Taoist thoughts in the pre-Qin period. It is a diversified medical model integrating physiological therapy, belief therapy and psychotherapy. It is related to and different from Chinese traditional medicine, and its essence of medicine and pharmacology is an integral part of Chinese medicine. It includes taking medicine, external medicine, internal medicine, guiding technique (also named Dao Yin), elixir and spells with witch doctor color, etc. The definition of Taoist medicine in Encyclopedia of China Religious Volume is the following: Taoist medicine is the medical knowledge and technology accumulated by Taoism in the process of internal cultivation and external cultivation in pursuit of immortality, inheritance and absorption of Chinese traditional medical achievements. 1 Taoism has gradually formed a unique Taoist medicine in the long time and development process. Therefore, Taoism integrates many Chinese folk cultures, and integrates numerous and confusing philosophies, myths and witchcraft into a religious system which is the only religion born and raised in China. In the process of long-term development and melting, it not only inherits Taoist thoughts, but also includes various thoughts of Mohist, Military and Legalist. Taoism is rooted in the soil of Chinese culture. Keywords: Taoism Taoist medicine psychotherapy traditional Chinese medicine