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Everyone clean up your mood, this article is very high-minded, this little monk wants to end the "dispute between Chinese and Western medicine" in one fell swoop, which has overturned countless friendship boats.
First of all, let's state that we only discuss medicine within the scope of science, don't think of Chinese medicine as a fantasy, and don't treat Western medicine as science fiction.
What life is
This question is not something we can answer, find a giant on the shoulder, today this giant is also an old acquaintance: Schrödinger, the one who keeps cats. The unknown little pot friend punished copying quantum mechanics a hundred times.
The ancients' understanding of life was full of imagination, and later the rise of Western science, the scientific edifice was built in a similar way, so a group of people tried to use science to explain life.
At first there were two great schools, vitality and mechanism.
The essence of vitalism is the theory of the particularity of life, which holds that there is a special "vitality" substance in the organism that governs the activity of the organism.
The theory of mechanics is simple, thinking that man is a complex machine, which is the same as the essence of the car, but the "man" machine is too complex to be understood for a while and a half.
The controversy between vitalism and mechanism is not a matter of philosophical speculation, but of science. Speculation depends on lip service, science relies on data, and the two sides have done a lot of experiments in order to destroy each other.
There is a lot of content in this history of science, and interested little pot friends go to find information for themselves, for example.
The "vitality theory" was a battery experiment
Miller's flask experiment, which simulated the original Earth environment inside the flask, showed that organic matter, especially amino acids, could be synthesized from inorganic matter, and later even synthesized "deoxyribose" (to wake up, the Chinese of DNA is called DNA).
A good pottecophile in high school biology should remember the words adenine, guanine, cytosine, and uracil, right? Yes, they've also been found in Miller experiments, which are the basic structures of DNA or RNA.
The Miller experiment proved that putting a bunch of chemical raw materials together, it is possible, it is possible to produce life. This was a major breakthrough in the study of the origin of life, and the vitalism was dealt a fatal blow.
Schrödinger watched the lively scene, couldn't help but take a kick, wrote a book called "What Is Life", and then became one of the greatest scientific classics of the 20th century, which can be said to be the ballast stone of biology.
This story shows that it is appropriate for physicists to change careers and do anything.
Schrödinger had a seat among the founders of quantum mechanics, but biologists at the time were not at all aware of the amazing achievements that physics had made, and still used their old physical chemistry knowledge to understand life, and the result could only be a confused face.
Schrödinger proposes a series of bold hypotheses, such as that genetic mutations are caused by quantum transitions in gene molecules, and so on.
Not to mention whether Schrödinger is right or wrong, the greatest significance of "What Is Life" is to remind biologists that physics has enough space to explain life, but these hidden laws have not yet been discovered.
Schrödinger emphasized the importance of studying life in physical and chemical ways, an idea that influenced a generation of biologists.
Simply put, the core idea of What Is Life is that all the laws that run in the body of life must conform to the basic laws of physics, even if this physical law has not yet been discovered.
This little monk thinks that we have reached a consensus: the operation of life follows the basic laws, and these laws can be recognized and used.
If you do not agree with this, please seize the time to cultivate the Immortal Enlightenment, and do not look down.
The idea of Western medicine
The next idea is very clear, medicine is to excavate the physical and chemical laws contained in the operation of life.
To agree, the Western medicine mentioned here refers specifically to modern medicine, and the Chinese medicine mentioned here refers specifically to ancient Chinese medicine.
Whether you are a supporter or an opponent of TCM, please be patient and watch it, the following plot will turn a thousand times.
The way Westerners excavate the law has a strong Western cultural characteristic.
Generally speaking, Western medicine is to parameterize and standardize the human body, start from the microscopic level, subdivide the person into N parameters, and set the scope for each parameter. It's a great and spectacular work, but it's also almost a never-ending one.
Technically, standardization allows medical theories to be precisely reproduced and widely disseminated, allowing them to be further developed on the basis of others.
Industrially speaking, Western medicine doctors can mass-produce in schools, and no matter how bad it is, memorizing different diseases corresponding to different parameters and corresponding prescriptions, at least it cannot be regarded as quack medicine.
The monk roughly counted the numbers, and a comprehensive physical examination can get about 300 parameters, as long as it is not a special situation, these 300 numbers can accurately indicate the health of the human body.
If you add to the unconventional laboratory tests, it is easy to come up with thousands of parameters, which have been gradually accumulated over hundreds of years and are certain that they will continue to increase in the future.
Therefore, modern medicine is destined to take a path of first weak and then strong, although the start is a little slower, but it can hold the thigh of modern technology, and has made rapid progress in recent decades.
The idea of Chinese medicine
The way the ancient Chinese excavated the law carried with it a strong traditional Chinese cultural characteristic.
Chinese medicine is essentially a human experiment that lasts for thousands of years, and the ancients used all the means that can be used to characterize the human body to the extreme, with pulse beats, tongue color, speaking sounds, excrement smells, and even house orientation, finding valuable statistical characteristics from observed phenomena, starting directly from the macroscopic, with the intention of fundamentally solving the problem.
Is this set of roads reliable? Statistics is, of course, a reliable discipline, and a discipline that greatly needs wisdom. It is precisely because of the effectiveness of traditional Chinese medicine that it still firmly occupies a place in the context of the strong rise of modern medicine.
As for the reason why TCM can retain this seat, it will be discussed later.
However, Chinese medicine does not like to use scientific terms and mathematics to record the conclusions of the experiment, but uses almost metaphysical language such as the five elements of yin and yang, meridian qi and blood, and the unity of heaven and man, plus hazy text expression, which makes people look at the scalp and tingle!
Therefore, the key to learning Chinese medicine is understanding, which makes Chinese medicine more like an art or craft, passed down in the form of a master with an apprentice, industry standards cannot be established, talent training is difficult, and it is impossible to provide a large number of stable doctors like Western medicine.
Due to family reasons, I have a lot of involvement in medicine, from Western medicine, to Chinese medicine, up to cancer, down to colds, deliberately looking for someone to learn the pulse, with the IQ of contempt, it is also a hasty defeat.
From the industry norms, this is a very troublesome thing. But let's not talk about industry, only about technology.
Statistics or empirics usually have the following characteristics: a quick start and a lack of stamina.
Macroscopically, the four classics that laid the framework of Chinese medicine, "The Yellow Emperor's Inner Classic", "Difficult Classic", "Treatise on Typhoid Fever and Miscellaneous Diseases", and "Shennong Materia Medica", almost all appeared about 2,000 years ago, and Li Shizhen's "Compendium of Materia Medica" of the Ming Dynasty is a pharmaceutical work and does not involve medical theory.
In other words, the theory of Chinese medicine reached its peak two thousand years ago and has been lackluster since then.
In the ancient times when scientific thought had not yet appeared, Chinese medicine relied on such a simple representation method to push medicine for 2000 years in one breath, and it was still not weak, and it had to be obeyed!
It must be emphasized that this is the way of the ancient Chinese, and the mainstream way of modern Chinese people studying biomedicine is also following the path of Western science, and it is remarkable at the academic level.
Computer doctors
Roughly sketch the outline of the two camps of Chinese and Western medicine, and then give an example to understand the internal logic.
A few years ago, Guangming Network's "Interview with Famous Artists" had a special interview to the effect that computer doctors are more good at seeing a doctor than playing chess. Unfortunately, the interviewee happened to be a good friend of the monk, and there was a lot of communication on weekdays.
Simply classify doctors into one category: the first type of doctors both see a doctor and conduct research, which is not in the scope of our discussion; the second type, which is only responsible for prescribing medicine in the outpatient clinic, does not perform surgery, does not do research, and is called outpatient doctor. Computer doctors refer to the work of outpatient doctors.
The process of outpatient medical treatment is: the patient describes the condition, the outpatient doctor issues a laboratory test, the patient is tested, the outpatient doctor prescribes the medicine according to the test results, and the patient pays to take the medicine home.
At the sixth annual meeting of the Asian Diabetes Research Association, experts said that the average time spent by mainland doctors on each patient was 382 seconds.
Many people may jump when they listen, but in fact, because the standardization of Western medicine is in place, the process of seeing a doctor is extremely simple, and each link does not have to use their brains, and they can run according to the formula.
For example, symptom description: cough, sputum, mild fever, pain behind the sternum, inhalation of cold air can aggravate or induce coughing.
Diagnostic methods: blood biochemical examination, chest x-ray examination.
Diagnosis: Chest X-ray showing thickening and weight loss of lung texture, vesicle rupture sound in both lungs (this part can be done by medical technique, and does not require an outpatient doctor); blood biochemical examination, if the lymphocytes are mildly increased, it is judged to be viral bronchitis, if the total number of white blood cells and neutrophils are elevated, it is judged to be bacterial bronchitis.
Treatment regimen: Bacterial bronchitis can be treated with cephalosporin or levofloxacin antibiotics, or with aminophylline to relieve bronchospasm.
Although it is not very rigorous, you can see the general process of outpatient treatment. 382 seconds is enough? Which outpatient link cannot be replaced by a computer?
It can even be said that computers are more reliable than ordinary outpatient doctors, and occasionally you can still meet a few doctors who take "antibiotics" to treat "viral" bronchitis. Antibiotics are only effective for bacteria, not for viruses.
Without giving an example, I always feel that space is pan.
A few years ago, IBM's Watson system and the University of North Carolina in the United States conducted a test, Watson system after analyzing 1,000 cancer cases, the treatment plan given more than 99% is exactly the same as that of human oncologists.
Not only that, but Watson also gave 30% of the cases, giving alternative treatment options that human experts did not expect.
IBM has spent tens of billions of dollars on research and development to successfully get Watson to "practice medicine" in 230 hospitals around the world, including the Center for Cancer Prevention and Treatment affiliated with Sun Yat-sen University in China and the Affiliated Cancer Hospital of Fudan University in China.
But Watson always challenged complex cancer treatment options, and eventually was fired for often giving unsafe treatment recommendations, and if Watson lowered his ambitions, solving diseases like bronchitis should not be much of a problem.
Western medicine has been dried to this extent by computers, and Chinese medicine naturally has no reason to be spared.
Take, for example, the veins familiar to this monk. To put it simply, the pulse is to apply different forces in the three positions of the wrist "inch-off ruler", and then judge the condition according to the frequency, strength and pulse width of the pulse.
Translating this information into numbers is easy for the instrument.
There are 6 positions in the left and right hand "inch-close ruler", each position has 3 kinds of pulses of "floating in the sink", and then the pulse frequency, strength, and pulse width are divided into three categories, high, medium and low, and there are a total of 486 possibilities for permutation and combination.
Just list these 486 possible and corresponding conditions, and define how many times a pulse is fast per minute, how many cows of force are applied to sink, and so on.
Then the rest of the work, for the computer is not a thing, the computer can detect the pulse accurately to make people amazing, this accuracy is definitely far beyond the ordinary Chinese doctor (the divine doctor do not come to join the fun).
This monk once met a primary school monk who studied computer pulses in Wudaokou, but because the standardized foundation of Chinese medicine is too thin, and "looking, hearing and asking" needs to cooperate with each other to diagnose the disease, so this work can only be said to be better than nothing. Take a look at the omnipotent micro-business:
Speaking of which, we have pretty much figured out the logic of medicine. The next topic, what exactly can medicine do?
Notice that the confrontation between Chinese and Western medicine is about to begin! Remind again, the plot turns a thousand times, don't sit still!
Awkward TCM
Many people have such a myth that the things of the ancients must be good. In this regard, with the help of a sentence of Mr. Lu Xun, who counted half of the ancients: take its essence and remove its dross.
Without breaking this myth, we can't go on. Let's take an example.
The ancients believed in the heavenly authority of the king, and often used the changes in the stars in the sky to judge the quality of the king's rule, quoting a line from Lao She's "Tea House": "I watch the sky at night, the purple micro star shines, and soon there will be a true dragon and heavenly son." ”
This is no joke, the ancients believed it! The method of judging the level of government governance according to the stars is also a series of statistics and summaries, which includes the wisdom of the ancients like Chinese medicine.
Don't rush to say stupidity, in fact, the astronomical standards of the ancients are very high, more than 2100 years ago, the "Taichu Calendar" officially set the twenty-four solar terms in the calendar to guide agricultural affairs, which is still used today, which can be seen.
May I ask you, was the astronomical view of the ancients right or wrong?
Fortunately, the development of astronomy soon gave us the ability to take the best of "astrology and solar terms" and get rid of the bad, which is now long gone.
Unfortunately, medicine is far from the level of astronomy.
It is foolish to use the example of Chinese medicine to cure good diseases to prove that Chinese medicine is reliable, or to use the example of Chinese medicine to kill people to prove that Chinese medicine is unreliable. The interpretation of Chinese medicine must return to science, and this part needs to be understood with an IQ of more than 80.
Traditional Chinese medicine and Western medicine pay attention to the right medicine, and the importance of disease diagnosis need not be said.
Authentic Chinese medicine does not rely on mysterious forces to walk the rivers and lakes, but is really statistically based on the "look, smell and cut", and Western medicine, Chinese medicine doctors in the mastery of this craft, rely on most of the understanding and experience, the trouble is here.
A swim champion doesn't need to know fluid mechanics, but you can't build a high-speed flying machine based on your swimming experience. For example, cold and fever, take body temperature as an observation indicator, this experience is easy to summarize;
But to distinguish between viral colds and bacterial colds, it is much more difficult, but it is no problem to be careful; and to distinguish between H1N1 cold virus and H2N2 cold virus, it is not a pulse can be done.
Relying only on the four means of Chinese medicine "looking, hearing, asking and cutting", Hua Tuo, Sun Simiao and other gods have played to the extreme, and it is difficult for future generations to surpass, at least it is difficult to surpass far.
Because craftsmanship has limits, no matter how good the fluid mechanics are, swimming speed has a limit, and if you want to be faster, you have to use science to build a speedboat.
Even if Hua Tuo was alive, it would be impossible to accurate the location and size of the tumor to the millimeter by looking and hearing. The theory of Chinese medicine has stagnated for a thousand years, and if the original method is not innovated, it is still only dependent on looking and hearing, and the results can be known in the next thousand years.
In terms of disease diagnosis (excluding treatment), Western medicine, with the help of various scientific equipment, has long been far away from Traditional Chinese medicine, just as swimming can not swim in a speedboat, running can not run a car, stagnant for thousands of years, it is impossible to surpass the ever-changing medical equipment.
Ignorant little pot friends, don't take the example of "stupid Western medicine compared to bullish Chinese medicine" to question, otherwise I will take the example of "bullish Western medicine versus stupid Chinese medicine" to refute, and you will not cry.
In the diagnosis of diseases, the top Chinese medicine, can not be surpassed, the top modern medicine. Don't raise the bar!
Let's talk about treatment.
The inability to accurately diagnose, resulting in TCM can not guarantee the stability of the treatment effect, good timing, time difference. Western medicine, on the other hand, takes it step by step, and once a certain disease is overcome, the effect is stable and predictable.
Taking tuberculosis as an example, ancient Chinese medicine (excluding modern Chinese medicine) must have successful examples of tuberculosis treatment, but there will not be many, otherwise there will be no tragedy such as human blood steamed buns.
Before the discovery of streptomycin, chinese medicine should naturally be considered for tuberculosis, and even priority should be given to traditional Chinese medicine, so that there are successful cases in good families.
But if you have tuberculosis today, completely reject Western medicine, that is to die, we zhejiang province in 2018 active tuberculosis patients successful treatment rate is 91.8%, the remaining 8.2% estimated that there are other diseases.
To put it bluntly, in the territory laid by Western medicine, Chinese medicine is almost powerless. Again, this conclusion is not allowed to be raised!
So the question is, what about the territory that Western medicine has not yet arrived? Is there a lot of this kind of territory?
More embarrassing Western medicine
High-energy warning ahead, I don't know if everyone will be able to withstand it.
Ioannidis, director of the Center for Preventive Medicine Research at Stanford University, published a paper in 2005 titled "Why most published research findings are false", which literally translates to why most published research results are wrong; and then translates it into the language of the melon-eating masses: most medical research is unreliable.
Ioannidis studied 49 of the top medical papers published between 1990 and 2003 and found that only 20 were reliable. Ioannidis is not addicted, and in the not the top paper to find 432 medical research results, of which repeated verification of effective, only 1, huh.
As of today, the paper has been cited up to 3915 times, what concept? From 1900 to 2005, humans published a total of 38 million papers, and more than 10,000 citations were only a few more than 60.
Four thousand citations are enough to prove that the medical community tacitly acknowledges that "most medical research is unreliable", but this conclusion has not attracted the attention of the outside world.
In fact, almost all medical experts believe that any media report related to medical research can only be read as entertainment news, which is not a question of whether to believe or not to believe, but because the probability of medical research not being overturned is too low.
In 1991, the World Health Organization's International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) included "coffee" in the list of class 2B carcinogens, which is the same category as the insecticide DDT. I didn't expect it, drinking coffee is equivalent to drinking pesticides!
Later, a panel of scientists in the U.S. Dietary Guidelines said there was "strong evidence" that moderate coffee consumption reduced chronic disease. The World Cancer Research Fund says coffee prevents cancer.
Later, the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) research proved that drinking coffee above 65 ° C increased the risk of esophageal cancer. It was found that long-term drinking of any liquid above 65 °C increased the risk of esophageal cancer.
In the end, it was the International Agency for Research on Cancer, which convened a number of scientists to study again, and found that there was no conclusive evidence that coffee caused cancer, and the funny thing was that this study showed that coffee could prevent certain cancers.
In June 2016, the International Agency for Research on Cancer officially removed coffee from its list of Class 2B carcinogens.
Today, is coffee carcinogenic or cancer-proof? Ignorant little pot friends, pay attention to these things, eat when you should eat, drink when you should drink! Cat coffee walk up ~
Why is this happening in modern medicine?
Remember the example at the end of the previous article, accurately calculating the interrelationship between 10 hydrogen atoms can make people dry and blind. The sophistication of a cell far exceeds that of any artificial device, and the human body composed of tens of trillions of cells can be imagined.
Modern medicine has started from the bottom of the deciphering of one parameter after another, what step has it gone to? How many parameters do I need to build a complete mannequin? Once the parameters go wrong, how do I adjust them? What is the interaction between the mannequin and external matter?
150 years ago, doctors did not know to wash their hands before surgery, which seems absurd today, but have you ever thought about what the current medical treatment means are in the eyes of people 150 years later? Are some of today's medications as ridiculous as "not washing your hands before surgery"?
Unfortunately, the answer to this list of questions is not optimistic.
There is a joke in medical circles that is both true and false: accidental healing, often remission, always comforting.
This statement is obviously inconsistent with our daily perception, is it true that the hospitals that are overcrowded every day are all hallucinations?
This little monk helps you to make a fuss, in addition to emergencies, which chronic disease can be cured by the hospital? Especially chronic diseases of internal medicine, stomach diseases? Rhinitis? asthma? heart disease? hypertension? rheumatism? Or even tooth decay? Toothache can only be extracted, if this is also a cure, is the foot pain have to be sawed?
This is over, so can we still live?
TCM healing roots, Western healing standards?
--Start with a cold
How to treat the common cold?
Although the human body is extremely complex, the cold is a good thing to understand, did not think, but gave Chinese and Western medicine a blow.
The common cold is caused by rhinovirus, which is a large category of cold viruses, hundreds of kinds, usually hidden in the nasopharynx, do not take chances, everyone has a share.
When the body's resistance declines, the cold virus and the wonderful attack and defense of the human body system appear.
The first line of protection of the human body is the viscous protective liquid on the surface of the nasal mucosa, which can stick to impurities such as inhaled dust germs.
When the cold virus penetrates the skin and mucous membranes and enters the nasal cells, the body will increase the secretion of protective fluids to prevent more viruses from invading the body.
The main components of the nasal mucosal protective liquid are water, protein, carbohydrates and salt, and the reason why it is said so clearly is because I will tell you the name of this protective liquid later, yes, it is: snot.
Usually these sticky impurities of the snot will be swallowed by us, but when we catch a cold, because the amount of nasal discharge is greatly increased, the average person cannot swallow so much, and some of them have to be excreted, which is manifested as runny nose.
If the flow is not fast enough, it will also sneeze, and the air velocity of the sneezing is almost 18 typhoons, which can quickly blow the cold virus on the surface of the nasal cavity out of the body.
Although the snot is strong enough to clear the virus out of the body, there will still be some viruses that enter the human cells and begin to multiply in large quantities with the help of rich nutrients in the cells.
Once the body's cells are breached, the immune system is activated.
The first to appear are natural killer cells, which secrete perforin to destroy invading viruses, while also killing normal human cells. Because the battlefield of the cold virus is in the nasopharynx, the throat will become red, swollen and painful.
At the same time, there are also phagocytes, which are swallowed as long as strangers are encountered, in addition to viruses, but also include the mess left by natural killer cells after they are raging.
After the phagocytes are finished, they have to send the garbage out, and the most convenient way is the snot, so the snot begins to change color...
There are too many garbage piles, the snot is too late to transport, the throat will have a foreign body feeling, and then it will cough and cough out the excess garbage. This behavior, I believe you must be very familiar, I will not accompany the picture.
Natural killer cells and phagocytes are a bit like the police at the police station, usually dealing with petty theft is not a problem, but in the face of the invasion of the cold virus, the role is very limited, so the virus continues to multiply.
It's time to show true technology, and the human body begins to switch to war mode.
The nervous system first raises the body temperature and reduces the reproduction rate of the cold virus, which is a common trick used by soldiers to kill one thousand enemies and lose eight hundred, and the body manifests itself as fever.
The increase in body temperature will not only affect the reproduction of the virus, but also affect the rate of various chemical reactions in the human body itself, and then we will be uncomfortable.
At the same time, the antigen-presenting cells, the equivalent of a scout, transmit viral signatures to the headquarters of the immune system, finding T cells and B cells that match the invading virus.
In the hours that followed, the immune system produced thousands of T cells and mobilized an army to the front lines. B cells, on the other hand, produce millions of antibodies.
Mobilizing the army is very energy-intensive, and the human body will reduce the energy supply of other organs, especially units with high energy consumption like muscles, so the body is tired and tired, and the stomach with insufficient energy is manifested as a lack of appetite.
This is the root cause of the need for rest for a cold: reducing the energy expenditure of the whole body, prioritizing the replenishment of the army of T cells and B cells.
Of course, all processes are essential for water consumption, so you have to drink more water for a cold. Remember it's hot water, don't let the body temperature drop.
With the addition of T cells and B cells, the war has no suspense, T cells are responsible for solving the virus in the cell, and the antibodies produced by the B cell can handcuff the virus outside the cell, so that the police at the police station can easily take it away.
At the end of the war, the nervous system will adjust the body temperature back to normal levels, and the human body will quickly restore normal body temperature through sweating and heat dissipation, so that everything will get on the right track as soon as possible, so fever reduction is a sign of the end of the battle, and sweating is a sign of fever.
Phagocytes continue to clean the battlefield and remove the virus carcasses from the body, so there will be some coughing and runny nose.
The whole process takes about 7-10 days, and at the end, the antibodies will continue to patrol for several months to ensure that the virus does not come back. A few months later, the army disbanded and everything returned to business as before.
Here to distinguish a concept, the common cold is a term, corresponding to influenza, the common cold is caused by the rhinovirus in the nasal cavity, and the flu is caused by the influenza virus in the air.
The fighting power of the flu is much stronger than the common cold, but the whole war process is similar, but the immune system has a greater probability of losing the war.
The result of losing is a complicated infection of the respiratory tract, and then ask for antibiotics to support, for people who are not immune, the flu season is still to pay attention.
White blood cells engulf bacteria
Every symptom of a cold is not superfluous, it is the product of the body's war with the cold virus. Interestingly, whether it is Chinese medicine or Western medicine, in the long course of war, only the bystanders have to watch.
I used to think that colds were cured, Chinese and Western medicine have fought for this credit, and now I know that in fact, the immune system itself has done it, you say this thing is embarrassing?
The medical community recognizes that there is no cure for colds! The so-called cold medicine, just to alleviate the symptoms of the cold, is of no benefit to the human body to solve the battle, do not drag the legs even if amitabha Buddha.
For example, some cold medicines have the effect of contracting nasal blood vessels and reducing nasal discharge; some cold medicines act on the hypothalamus, and they force the body temperature back to the normal range. A country that consumes more than half of the world's cold medicine is simply a joke in the medical community.
Frequent interference with the immune system, what is the result?
It is difficult for the human body to end the battle within normal time, and the fight between the immune system and the cold virus is actually not small to the human body itself, so if the long-term cold does not heal, it may lead to concurrent infection of the respiratory tract, and serious pneumonia will be obtained, which is no longer a cold. It can only be said that your immune system is too dishy, and even the cold virus can't be fixed.
Only from the surrounding friends to observe, many people's immune system has no combat effectiveness, as long as a cold, proper respiratory tract concurrent infection, and finally antibiotics to end, and then the immunity fell round by round.
The monk occasionally catches a cold, and it is very simple to deal with: provide enough nutrition, and eat highly nutritious food without appetite; rest and drink more water, try not to interfere with the work of the immune system; and finally imagine the picture of T cells killing the enemy and threatening the four sides.
Don't laugh, the last psychological effect is important.
In medicine, this is called the "placebo effect", as long as the doctor says that the drug is good, even if the patient only eats a piece of sugar, half of the disease is better, this experiment has been repeatedly proved.
Of course, half of the disease is not better off by a placebo, so don't risk it in private.
It is related to health, about the cold, solemn reminder: I first tried cold fever in high school without taking medicine, tossed for ten days, the process of thief pain; the second toss time is shorter, and the next several times, each time is better than the previous time; now dealing with colds is a piece of cake, fever time is not more than 12 hours, sleep one night basically recovered.
Solemn reminder here: I am very aware of whether I have respiratory tract complicated infections during the whole cold process, and I tried it under very safe circumstances, if your constitution has a strong drug dependence, it is recommended to treat colds with caution, especially children.
The reminder ends at your own risk.
After reading the story of the cold, is there any inspiration? If not enlightened, look at another story, this story point logic.
Before the cold mechanism has been thoroughly studied, the explanation for cold fever is that the central function of body temperature regulation is disordered, causing the parameter of body temperature to exceed the normal range, thereby causing harm to other tissues and organs in the human body, so the treatment logic at this time is to restore the function of the central nervous system to reduce body temperature. That's okay, right?
But when we know the mechanism of the cold, this treatment plan seems ridiculous. Then, swap the cold for diabetes.
Diabetes is due to insulin secretion defects, resulting in blood glucose concentration this parameter beyond the normal range, thereby causing harm to other tissues and organs of the human body, so the treatment logic is to inject insulin to reduce blood sugar concentration.
Analogous to a cold, the islets are equivalent to the body temperature regulation center, the blood glucose concentration is equivalent to the body temperature, and the injection of insulin is equivalent to eating antipyretic drugs.
Suppose a possibility: the human immune system detects a special situation, need to increase the blood glucose concentration for a period of time to cope, so actively reduce the secretion of insulin, and this special situation, is not in the known human parameters, so the doctor can only explain the cause as a defect in insulin secretion, and constantly inject insulin.
This hypothesis is like that when the doctor has not yet found the cold virus, he only sees that the central nervous system of the human body inexplicably raises the body temperature, so he desperately uses drugs to act on the central nervous system to achieve the purpose of cooling.
Note that the monk only logically provides a hypothesis about the cause of diabetes, has no evidence, and is not responsible for judging right and wrong. Logically, if the disease is not studied as thoroughly as a cold, then there is a major hidden danger in adjusting the parametric treatment plan.
Guys, are you wavering at Western medicine? Chinese medicine and Western medicine aside, let's first thank the theory of evolution!
How many diseases are studied as thoroughly as a cold? In fact, in the past few hundred years, Western medicine has laid not many territories.
Self-limited diseases, that is, the kind of diseases that will be good on their own, such as colds, chickenpox, mouth ulcers, some thyroiditis, some enteritis, etc., you only need to provide nutrition and water to the immune system, the war is a steady win, Western medicine is just a role in soy sauce, relieve symptoms.
Acute disease is the place where Western medicine shows its might, tuberculosis, malaria, cholera, wound infection, including various vaccines, etc., the human life expectancy has increased significantly, mainly due to the credit of Western medicine. However, acute diseases that Western medicine can't solve are also piled up.
Chronic diseases, almost all of them are in a state of war, and the treatment plan of Western medicine is which parameter is not correct, which parameter is adjusted, so it has a hat of "treating the symptoms but not the root cause".
In fact, medical experts are very conservative in their understanding of modern medicine, and Lu Bai, executive vice dean of the School of Medicine of Tsinghua University, has publicly said: "Medicine is currently only in the stage of preliminary understanding of the human body, and there are actually few diseases that medicine can completely cure." ”
This is even the mainstream view of modern medicine, and I advise you to be superstitious about Western medicine, and you should also adjust your attitude in a cautious direction and move closer to experts.
The above paragraph is the main point, to write down.
As a result, TCM remains active.
As a statistical or empirical science, Chinese medicine cannot describe pathology as meticulously as Western medicine, and the only thing that can be done is the efficacy.
Chinese medicine describes the failure of the immune system as an imbalance of yin and yang, and the treatment of disease requires the adjustment of yin and yang. This idea is actually to regulate the immune system, which is more reasonable than the idea of Western medicine to regulate parameters, so Chinese medicine conveniently took off the hat of "curing the root".
Helplessly, the adjustment methods of Chinese medicine are too rough, "acupuncture and moxibustion medicine" and "looking, hearing and asking", the standardization is too weak, and the stability of the efficacy of different individuals is really not flattering.
On the battlefield of chronic diseases, Chinese medicine and Western medicine can be regarded as comparable. The effect of Western medicine is stable, but it can only be alleviated; Chinese medicine is good and bad, but occasionally can achieve results; on average, there is no essential difference between the two.
In addition to the intractable chronic diseases, there is also a territory where Western medicine has not yet started.
The body is obviously unwell, but all the test parameters are in the normal range, according to the definition of Western medicine, this is healthy. But if you go to see a Chinese medicine doctor, the conclusion may be that the yin and yang imbalance and so on.
Let's name this site for the time being: incurable diseases.
On this piece of land, Chinese medicine killed all sides! But the result is also similar, there are good and bad, the reason is still that, non-standardization leads to unstable effects.
Since medicine is like this, what else can we do ourselves?
The following point of view is a personal experience, this experience comes from the fact that I have taken my mother to run to many Chinese and Western hospitals for more than ten years, and all kinds of acid are not enough for outsiders.
The reason why chronic diseases are chronic diseases is because the immune system and the disease have launched a tug-of-war, and for a while, they cannot distinguish between high and low, the whole war situation is complicated, and it is unlikely that the battle can be solved by adjusting a few parameters.
The solution to chronic diseases is to improve the combat effectiveness of the immune system and restore the body's self-healing ability.
Specific measures: First, examine the surroundings and cut off the way of possible ingestion of pollution, my practice at that time was to test tap water, rice, fruits, etc. for heavy metals and pesticide residues, which requires a certain physical and chemical foundation;
Second, through dietary habits or physical examinations to determine whether there is a lack of certain essential nutrients, which requires a certain amount of biomedical common sense, such as never basking in the sun may be deficient in calcium (ultraviolet radiation to the skin can produce vitamin D, promote calcium absorption).
After doing these two steps, the next step is simple: supplement nutrition, reduce pollution, sleep reasonably, exercise appropriately, and feel comfortable.
Summary: Chinese medicine occasionally cures the root cause, Western medicine always treats the symptoms, and the immune system is king.
Personal opinion, for reference only.
Weather forecast
The complexity of the weather is about the order of magnitude of the human body. In the early years, the accuracy of weather forecasts was often inferior to that of an experienced old farmer, and it was completely a reproduction of traditional Chinese medicine that modern medicine could not beat.
Although today's weather forecast is still not perfect, the forecast time of strong convective weather is very short, and the weather after 30 days is basically blind, but it has been able to meet the needs of the people's lives.
Many weather sayings that have been passed down to this day, "the morning sun does not go out, the sunset travels thousands of miles", "a layer of autumn rain and a layer of cool", can also be explained clearly.
Looking at the time scale of a hundred years and a thousand years, I think that Chinese medicine, like weather forecasts, will still embark on the road of standardization, and eventually complete the unification with Western medicine to form modern medicine.
TCM overseas
When it comes to standardization, everyone will think of Japan and Germany, which are "calculating". Yes, Rikde is already a strong country in Traditional Chinese medicine.
The use of herbs to treat diseases, we call this "Chinese medicine", which is called "Kampo" in Japan. In 1976, Japan's Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare approved the use of 210 ancient recipes in China's "Treatise on Typhoid Fever and Miscellaneous Diseases" to produce Kampo medicine, and the Kampo medicine industry developed rapidly.
Today, there are about 200 Kampo pharmaceutical factories in Japan, more than 2,000 kinds of Kampo preparations, and account for most of the global market share.
The German Institute of Traditional Chinese Medicine, the German Institute of Traditional Chinese Medicine, the German Acupuncture Society, the German Acupuncture-Ear Medicine Society, the Chinese Medicine Association, etc., these chinese medicine research units with a history of several decades are all founded by Germans.
Germany accounts for 70% of the European herbal medicine market, and herbal medicine accounts for 20% to 30% of the German pharmaceutical market, which is almost the same as China.
In fact, not only in Germany, acupuncture is popular in Europe is not a day or two, britain, Italy, France, research institutions of traditional Chinese medicine are everywhere.
The Germans study chinese medicine is not to follow the path of the five elements of yin and yang, but to follow the path of pharmacodynamics and pharmacokinetics of Western medicine, and the most studied is acupuncture and traditional Chinese medicine, and there are relatively few diagnostic methods for Chinese medicine.
This is actually similar to the situation in China, how many Chinese medicine practitioners do not have to look at the test list?
In fact, modern Chinese medicine and the ancient Chinese medicine theory of yin and yang five elements are already very different. Most of the current Chinese medicine is "Western doctors who sell Chinese medicine", diagnosis and pathology are all western medicine methods, but in the prescription process, Western medicine is replaced by Chinese medicine.
Integrative Medicine
With the development of technology, the composition and principle of many Chinese medicines have gradually become clear, and the famous artemisinin is not to be said, and the monk gives another example, which largely foreshadows the future of Traditional Chinese and Western medicine.
In the 1970s, cancer was almost equivalent to the death penalty, and in the absence of an effective solution from Western medicine, ordinary people could only find Chinese medicine to bump their luck.
At that time, there was a folk Chinese medicine doctor in Lindian County, northeast China, who often used folk remedies to treat cancer, and the effect was good, quite famous.
Zhang Tingdong, a doctor at Harbin Medical University, then set up a research team to investigate the matter, and this folk remedy was really frightening: arsenic, mercury chloride, toad secretions, and three solid poisons.
Zhang Tingdong soon found that not all cancer patients have an effect, and after a professional toss, Zhang Tingdong came to two important conclusions:
First, only arsenic cream works in the home remedies, and the other 2 have only side effects; second, the home remedies only work best on one type of cancer, acute promyelocytic leukemia.
By the end of the 1970s, Zhang Tingdong had been able to come up with enough data to show that arsenic had a significant effect on acute promyelocytic leukemia, and even a small number of patients had completely recovered.
Later, Chen Zhu, former minister of health, and three other people used all-trans tretinoin plus arsenic cream to carry out joint targeted therapy for acute promyelocytic leukemia, and nearly 100% of patients could be successfully cured.
This is another popular candidate for the Nobel Prize in Medicine in China after Tu Youyou Artemisinin. Let's experience the role played by TCM experience and Western medicine methods in the whole process.
If you want to fight for the tone of Chinese medicine, why does Chinese medicine take the road of Western medicine? Can't Western medicine take the path of Chinese medicine? Don't say, there really is.
The most cutting-edge cancer treatment methods have begun to try new ideas, not blindly using anti-cancer drugs to fight cancer cells, but to regulate "yin and yang", that is, to regulate the immune system.
By activating the human immune system, many cancer patients who are on the verge of death have been successfully cured, which was unimaginable in the previous era of relying on drugs to fight cancer cells.
Reactivating the immune system is a very complex task, and it is not very mature at present, so don't try it privately.
Unit 731 you didn't know
I'm sorry to mention this depressing topic.
To be honest, after several attempts, I never had the courage to watch the relevant documentaries. I'm sure many people, like me, are so repulsive to thinking about the details of Unit 731 that the infamous Unit 731 is often overlooked: this is a group of Japanese medical elites.
When a group of medical elites can do experiments on living people without scruples, they have successfully achieved major achievements in the history of human medicine.
The human body water content was first measured by Unit 731, and the living people were locked in a high-temperature drying room until every drop of water was evaporated, and finally the human body water content was measured to be about 78%, although this figure had a large error.
Please stop imagining and finish reading the following series of questions: How long will a person die without drinking water? How much temperature can freeze a person to death? The lethal amount and lethal principle of various chemical reagents, the lethal amount and infection path of various bacteria and viruses, and so on.
Calm down, because there are worse.
After Japan's defeat, the United States and Japan made a dirty deal: Unit 731 handed over the results of the research to the Americans, who helped Unit 731 escape trial and punishment.
To this day, the relevant information has not been fully disclosed, but one thing is certain, the research results were divided between the United States and Japan and not sent to China.
In April 2018, the Japan Archives published a real-name list of 3,607 members of Unit 731. Members of Unit 731 remained active in biology, medicine, and other fields after the war.
For example, Ryoichi Naito, an important backbone under the big boss Shiro Ishii, founded the Green Cross Company, which once became the largest pharmaceutical company in Japan, and most of the directors of the company were from unit 731; Kozo Okamoto, director of the medical department of Kyoto University, president of the General Association of The Japanese Pathological Society; Tsuyoshi Tamiya, director of the medical department of the University of Tokyo, director of the National Cancer Center, and president of the Japan Medical Association; is the president of Kanazawa University, known for dissecting living people, known as the "fast knife hand" of unit 731.
There are many such examples, and many key cadres of Unit 731 hold important positions in relevant units such as the Japanese Defense Agency, research institutions, and pharmaceutical companies.
There are now two theories: one is that Unit 731 is just a group of perverted murderers who are not helpful to the development of medicine; the other is that the rapid development of biomedical technology in the United States and Japan after the war is inseparable from the research results of Unit 731.
Because the United States and Japan have not yet fully disclosed the relevant information, they do not comment on these two statements. Just sigh: the sky has no eyes!
The inability of science to explain does not mean that it is contrary to science
There is still a lot of things in TCM that science can't explain, especially acupuncture.
But is it strange that "science cannot explain"? All the phenomena at the forefront of physics are unexplainable by current science, which discipline is the most cutting-edge research that science can explain clearly now?
Whether it is Chinese medicine or Western medicine, I believe that the two will definitely come together, because their end point is the same: the physical and chemical laws of life.
But the current huge gap between the two has to make people wonder how far medicine has come? Looking back, human science is just getting started, and you can't expect medicine to fly as high as you can.
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