中西医结合医学是我国独有的一门新兴学科,中西医结合消化病学是中西医结合医学的一个重要组成部分。建国以来,我国政府制定了继承发展传统中医学,促进中西医团结合作,学术上取长补短,优势互补,实行中西医结合的方针政策。2003年国家中医药管理局出台了中西医结合工作指导意见, Integrative Medicine is a unique emerging discipline in China. Integrative Medicine is an important part of Integrated Traditional and Western Medicine. Since the founding of the People’s Republic of China, our government has formulated the principles and policies of inheriting and developing traditional Chinese medicine, promoting the unity and cooperation of Chinese and Western medicine, and of learning from each other’s strengths and complement each other’s strengths and implementing the combination of traditional Chinese and western medicine. In 2003, the State Administration of Traditional Chinese Medicine issued the Guiding Opinion on Integrative Medicine,