Reviving Traditional Chinese Medicine

If you want to study Chinese medicine, would you like to have a Chinese medicine background? It must be a famous foreign university. And then come back to practice Chinese medicine? Don't you think it's nonsense? Or is it that Chinese medicine abroad is better than domestic medicine? Is the moon abroad rounder?

I went straight to the comment section before I clicked on this novel, because I knew that there would definitely be arguments in a novel of this kind. As expected, it was so loud. Even though we all understand some things, I think sometimes we should explain them. Otherwise, lack of communication will only lead to meaningless arguments. First of all, both supporters of traditional Chinese medicine and Western medicine should reach a consensus, that is, traditional Chinese medicine can be passed down for thousands of years, and there are still practitioners today. It must have its own uniqueness. I saw a friend in the post mentioned the fluid balance and bloodletting therapy of traditional Western medicine, but does this therapy still have supporters today? Let me talk about myself first. My major in university is clinical medicine, that is, Western medicine. Although I am not engaged in related work now, I still have a basic understanding. After graduation, by chance, I met a Chinese medicine doctor through a friend's introduction, specializing in massage and acupuncture. From him, I also got a general understanding of Chinese medicine. I know the reason why most supporters of Western medicine do not trust Chinese medicine, because I used to be one of them. The basic meridians and acupuncture points of Chinese medicine theory are not supported by any anatomical theory. This is undoubtedly fatal. Many Western medicine doctors cannot understand. Is the theory of Chinese medicine based on imagination on the human body really tenable? This point is actually easy to understand. Let us temporarily put aside a series of Western medicine theories such as anatomy and physiology, and look at the problem from the perspective of traditional Chinese medicine or the patient's perspective. If you have a headache, pressing the Laogong point can relieve pain, and if you are unconscious, pressing the philtrum can wake you up. These are phenomena just like firewood can be ignited, and meat will be cooked on the fire. Before we understand the concept of combustion theory and ignition point, and do not understand that proteins are denatured by heat and easy to absorb, wouldn't we also use fire to roast food? From this point of view, no matter what the cause of the phenomenon is, if we can see this phenomenon, it means that it is real. Traditional Chinese medicine can cure diseases. This is the phenomenon we see, but we do not know why it can cure diseases for the time being (from the perspective of Western medicine). We have to look at the essence from the phenomenon, but this does not mean that we have to deny the phenomenon just because we do not understand the essence. At the same time, I can also explain some friends' questions here, that is, since Chinese medicine can also treat diseases, why is it so suppressed by Western medicine? This point starts with the subject characteristics of Western medicine. The theories of Western medicine divide the human body into pieces of data, and divide these data into a rough floating range based on statistics, called normal values. The diagnosis of Western medicine is also based on comparing the test results of the instruments with these normal values, and then comparing them with the medical books to determine the treatment method. The entire treatment process has its own duties, forming an alternative assembly line, which also allows Western medicine practitioners to be trained on a large scale and quickly adapt to their positions. The treatment of traditional Chinese medicine is not supported by instruments, so it all depends on the individual level of the traditional Chinese medicine practitioner, so the training cycle is long and difficult. In a way, it also depends on the talent and family background. Large-scale training is difficult. Of course, if you include the cramming-style quick training in social cram schools, I didn't say that. (Too lazy to write, if anyone reads I will continue to say 0.0)

One of the reasons for the decline of traditional Chinese medicine Training system: In the past, the inheritance of traditional Chinese medicine mainly relied on masters and apprentices. In the early stage, apprentices followed the master to learn how to prepare medicine and identify medicinal materials. This took several years, and then they gradually learned other knowledge. In modern times, everything needs to be modernized. Students in traditional Chinese medicine hospitals have not even read the Yellow Emperor's Internal Classic, Treatise on Febrile and Miscellaneous Diseases, and Compendium of Materia Medica, and have not learned anything about it. How can a traditional Chinese medicine practitioner trained in this way treat people? Modern society seeks innovation and speed, but how many people can endure loneliness and sink their minds to learn about traditional Chinese medicine. Nowadays, there are fewer and fewer traditional Chinese medicine practitioners from the older generation, and the younger generation has no successors. I hope that the wise people of the country can solve these problems.

Revitalizing traditional Chinese medicine has been a slogan for many years, but now there are fewer and fewer pure traditional Chinese medicines, more and more combinations of traditional Chinese medicine and western medicine, and there are also endless scammers under the banner of traditional Chinese medicine. There are many reasons for the decline of traditional Chinese medicine. I think the most important one is the efficacy, but determining the efficacy of a pair of traditional Chinese medicines is more complicated. The age of the medicinal materials, the growth environment, the production process, the patient's constitution and other factors will have a very important impact on the efficacy of the medicine. That's why it is said that traditional Chinese medicines are prescription drugs, which is also the reason why Chinese patent medicines are particularly difficult to obtain; the second is benefits. , Everyone basically knows it; the third is the training of grassroots doctors. When studying Western medicine, everything has standards to follow. Through the testing of various instruments, an ordinary doctor can treat people and prescribe medicines in a relatively short period of time, but it takes a relatively long time to train a traditional Chinese medicine doctor; the fourth is that there are all kinds of traditional Chinese medicine scammers, and their various behaviors have made the reputation of traditional Chinese medicine worse and worse. As for many people who say that they should abandon the theories of yin and yang, five elements, luck, meridians, etc. In traditional Chinese medicine and use scientific methods to clarify the active ingredients in traditional Chinese medicine, I personally disagree. Those basic theories are the root of diagnosis and prescription of traditional Chinese medicine. If the roots are cut, traditional Chinese medicine will die. In addition, when it comes to meridians, there are already enough people analyzing them. , But the meridians have never been discovered. Although the meridians and acupuncture points are not as fantasy as in the novel, the curative effect is still there, and acupuncture is really useful. So in this regard, I still agree with Mr. Cui Liyue's point of view, that is, traditional Chinese medicine should follow its own development path. Interpreting and transforming traditional Chinese medicine using Western medicine methods cannot be called the modernization of traditional Chinese medicine.

There is only one book about Chinese medicine that Xu Yang, a Chinese medicine practitioner, can read.

Traditional Chinese medicine distinguishes between ups and downs, the coordination of monarch and ministers, and yin and yang and the five elements. I laughed when I saw the chemical analysis of Western medicine and the extraction of molecules to study Chinese medicine. It seems that I will write about using ginseng leaves instead of ginseng in the future 😁😁😁. I don't know what the difference is between the ingredients of floating wheat and wheat husk. How to distinguish Platycodon grandiflorum from Northern Platycodon and sweet Platycodon... Etc., According to the molecular structure and Component analysis shows that the horns and bones of all animals, human nails and bones are the same substance. Why does Chinese medicine need to be specific to animals to treat different diseases? If Chinese medicine is practiced in the Western medicine way as the author does, Chinese medicine will surely perish!

Generally speaking, the previous work on highlighting the theme of traditional Chinese medicine was pretty good. But I'm sorry, I couldn't stand it after Wang Hongmei was detained. In my opinion, there is no difference between people who sell fake medicines and fake masks. They are all seeking money and killing, and there is no hard reason. When the author wrote this paragraph, he has already instilled his point of view in the readers: As long as it is the first offense and he corrects his mistakes, it will be fine. If it is a child, I can forgive it, but why can an adult be forgiven for doing such a thing, and can even keep a job? As long as no one is killed, just apologize and everything will be fine? It's not that I want to be more serious about the novel, it's that I don't agree with this concept, so I can't stand it when I see it. I will remove this book from my bookshelf from now on A suggestion to the author, people of all ages may read your novel. If you have children or students whose three views have not yet been formed, it is easy to be affected by what you see and hear to grow up. Think about it yourself

After reading dozens of chapters, I was persuaded to give up. As a traditional Chinese medicine doctor, you don't need monarchs, ministers and assistants to prepare medicines. No matter whether the patient is cold or warm, or whether the medicine is sour, sweet, bitter, spicy, or spicy. But can you cure the disease by extracting chemical components from traditional Chinese medicine? Traditional Chinese medicine focuses on syndrome differentiation and compatibility. The medical sage Zhang Zhongjing said: Look at the pulse syndrome to know what to do and treat it according to the disease. The author, you might as well just say that it is better to promote Western medicine. After all, the protagonist graduated from Harvard Medical School, and the author has always said that Chinese and Western medicine are combined. But it is neither Chinese medicine nor Western medicine, it is completely different. Western medicine is a science, and Chinese medicine is a metaphysics. You cannot let Christians recite Taoist Buddhist scriptures. That is unrealistic. Bye bye to the author

Stop using Western medicine to demonstrate Chinese medicine. Fundamentally speaking, the decline of Chinese medicine is not only the lack of old masters, but also a group of self-righteous experts who use the rules of Western medicine to discuss Chinese medicine. A group of medical students, who are eighteen or nineteen years old, have completed the basics of Western medicine before they started to come into contact with Chinese medicine. The cultivation of a Chinese medicine doctor can be said to be a lifetime effort. My grandfather was an apprentice in a drug store at the age of eight. I started to learn how to read, and then I followed my senior brother to identify medicines, expose them, and choose medicines. At the age of fourteen, I went to the mountains with farmers to collect and taste medicines, understand the pharmacology and test the properties of medicines, and then I took over my senior brother's class and started to decoct medicines, memorize soup songs, and prepare medicines. When I was eight years old, I started to learn the four techniques of looking, hearing, asking, and cutting from my senior brother Zuitang. I then understood the meridians, bones, acupuncture points, and organs, acupuncture, sunburn, massage, and bone setting. When I was 20, I started to be led by the master Zuitang to diagnose and prescribe. It took three years! It takes more than ten years for a traditional Chinese medicine practitioner to become a doctor!

The title of this book is wrong. It shows that the author does not understand medicine at all. Medicine can only be divided into modern medicine and ancient medicine. There is no difference between Chinese medicine and Western medicine.