Li Jinyong, a 97-year-old "master of traditional Chinese medicine", died and asked why dr. TCM did not see a doctor

"Healing is a lifelong affair"

Written by | Wang Hang

Source | "Medical Community" public account

The day before yesterday, Professor Li Jinyong, a master of Traditional Chinese medicine who had asked why a doctor of Chinese medicine would not see a doctor, passed away.

According to the obituary released by Hubei University of Traditional Chinese Medicine in the early morning of this morning, Li Jinyong, a tenured professor of the hospital, died at the age of 97 in Wuhan, Hubei Province, at 18:12 on April 27, 2022 due to illness.

As a famous contemporary Chinese medicine practitioner in mainland China, one of the founders of the "Neijing" taidou and China's higher TCM education, in more than 80 years of clinical forensics, Professor Li Jinyong advocated that "the party is not big, the evidence is effective, the medicine is not expensive, and the middle disease is the spirit", independently compiled a number of textbooks, teaching reference books, published more than 300 academic papers, and dedicated his life to the cause of TCM he loved.

Professor Li Jinyong

Why doesn't a TCM doctor see a doctor?

"The cause of Chinese medicine is his life, and he devotes almost all his time and energy to the cause of Chinese medicine, and his heart is always just thinking about the problems of Chinese medicine." Talking about Professor Li Jinyong, his wife commented on this.

As the first "Master of Traditional Chinese Medicine" in Hubei Province, Professor Li Jinyong once pointed directly at TCM education in a TCM education reform plan drafted for the Ministry of Education.

In the article, he asked: "Why is it that the current Chinese medicine textbooks are getting thicker and thicker, and the academic qualifications of medical students are getting higher and higher, but many master's students and doctoral students will not see a doctor?" ”

In this regard, Professor Li Jinyong believes that the problem is not in the students, mainly in three aspects:

First, the curriculum is unreasonable, the entire teaching focuses on general education, "students spend more time learning foreign languages than reading medical books." ”

Second, the textbook is too chaotic, and many editors inject immature ideas into it, so that students do not know who to believe. He cited the "Treatise on Typhoid Fever" as an example, "There are no less than dozens of versions of this book, and the thicker it is, the more it is said by a family." ”

Third, the proportion of Chinese and Western medical education is imbalanced, and the time for Chinese medicine students to learn Western medicine is far more than that of Chinese medicine, "putting the cart before the horse leads to the low quality of Chinese medicine among students." ”

Fourth, there are few clinical opportunities and lack of clinical skills training.

"Seeing that doctoral students can't see a doctor, I'm in a hurry." Professor Li Jinyong said bluntly.

It is reported that this is not the first time he has made suggestions for the development of Chinese medicine. In 1984, he and 11 Chinese medicine experts from all over the country jointly wrote to the party and state leaders to propose the establishment of a chinese medicine management agency, and four years later, the State Administration of Traditional Chinese Medicine was established.

During his 30 years as a member of the Standing Committee of the Hubei Provincial Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, the deputy director of the Education, Science, Culture, Health and Sports Committee, and the chairman of the Hubei Association of Traditional Chinese Medicine, he has repeatedly gone deep into the grass-roots level to investigate and investigate, and think about the development of traditional Chinese medicine. In 2003, he put his thoughts into suggestions and wrote a letter to the party and state leaders, imploring the formulation of regulations on the protection and development of traditional Chinese medicine, which also attracted attention and was adopted.

From the 1970s to the present, Professor Li Jinyong has written more than 200 proposals, suggestions and letters, which have promoted the reform process of traditional Chinese medicine in mainland China.

"There is no shortcut to learning TCM"

Professor Li Jinyong was born in 1925 in Zaoyang City, Hubei Province, to a family of traditional Chinese medicine practitioners, the father of an influential local Traditional Chinese medicine practitioner.

Influenced by his family, he entered a private school at the age of 7, and later his hometown was invaded by the Japanese, and at the age of 13, he began to work as an assistant to his father, learning knowledge and skills such as chinese medicine preparation, slicing, and prescription medicine.

During this period, Professor Li Jinyong extensively read the Classics of Traditional Chinese Medicine such as "Acupuncture and Moxibustion A and B Classic", "Yellow Emperor's Inner Classic", and "Treatise on Typhoid Fever". After the founding of New China, he set up a "joint clinic" based on his father's clinic to treat the villagers.

In 1954, Professor Li Jinyong went to Hubei Provincial School of Traditional Chinese Medicine (now Hubei University of Traditional Chinese Medicine) to study, and later became a chinese medicine teacher in the school. Soon after he took charge, he showed a deep foundation in traditional Chinese medicine, and whenever anyone mentioned any passage in the Yellow Emperor's Inner Classic, he could point out the specific location in the book from memory.

Jiang Kasa'an, then vice president of Hubei College of Traditional Chinese Medicine, looked at it in his eyes, and he gave Li Jinyong an academic magazine, which contained a lot of articles on traditional Chinese medicine, which had a profound impact on Li Jinyong, who once lamented: "There is no shortcut to learning Chinese medicine well, that is, to honestly study the classics of Chinese medicine, and not a word can be sloppy."

Since the early 1960s, Li Jinyong has read "reference books" such as "Erya" and "Guangyun", introduced the methods of scripture management that arose during the Qianjia period of the Qing Dynasty into the research and collation of ancient medical books, and pioneered the study of classical medical books by using relevant knowledge such as paleography, history, and avoidance laws.

A set of data shows his academic accumulation: in his representative work "Research on Ancient Medical Books" alone, there are as many as 257 kinds of books cited in the pre-Qin, Han, Tang and Song dynasties, of which 75 are medical and the rest are more than 180 kinds of subsets of history.

His "obsession" with TCM classics, his daughter Li Lin expressed understanding: "TCM classics contain a large number of experiences and knowledge about physiology, pathology, diagnosis, medication and other aspects summarized by the ancients, which is the basis of TCM, and the study of TCM examination is to correct the errors and deviations in ancient medical books, restore the original intention, and better guide the clinical practice of TCM." ”

With such an attitude toward learning, it is difficult not to produce results. Li Shuiqing, deputy secretary of the Party Committee of Hubei University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, has publicly commented that Professor Li Jinyong is familiar with the internal, external, gynecological, pediatric and five senses of traditional Chinese medicine, and is especially good at treating difficult diseases in internal medicine and gynecology.

In addition, Professor Li Jinyong is also the founder of the discipline of "Neijing", and is praised by the national TCM community as "the king of neijing" and "living dictionary"; nearly 10 textbooks and teaching reference books edited, edited and co-edited by Li Jinyong, and has written and published more than 500 academic papers, excavating and improving the classical theoretical system of chinese medicine.

"If the disease is cured well, there will be no 'medical trouble'"

Professor Li Jinyong is not only a scholar, but also a doctor. Although he is proficient in books, he can always jump out of books and dare to question, and has achieved profound achievements in traditional Chinese medicine and clinical traditional Chinese medicine.

From the 1960s to the present, he has published more than 200 articles such as "Interpretation", "Examination Meaning", "Analysis of Doubts" and "Clarification of Doubts", which not only put forward unique insights, but also some articles even solved long-standing problems in Traditional Chinese medicine.

In clinical practice, Professor Li Jinyong has a deep study of the "laxative treatment method", especially in the use of diarrhea for internal injuries and miscellaneous diseases, forming his own unique style. In his view, seeing a doctor is a solemn matter, and it must be done according to the rules.

He used to hang a towel and a feather duster in the office, and before the formal consultation, he would use a towel to clean his hands and use a feather duster to dust off the desk.

Not receiving remuneration and not prescribing big prescriptions are also Li Jinyong's rules. He advocated that "the party is not big, the evidence is effective, the medicine is not expensive, and the middle disease is the spirit", there have been chest pain patients who have come to him to see a doctor, he used a 5 yuan prescription to cure, and many patients have formed a deep friendship.

Professor Li Jinyong was puzzled by the phenomenon of "medical trouble" in society, "If they treat the disease well, why should they make trouble?" He believes that if doctors can keep their duties well, contradictions will not occur.

But he also has times when he breaks the rules. In order to avoid doctor-patient disputes, ancient Chinese medicine has the saying of "six no cures", and there was once a patient with rare muscular malnutrition, because many doctors refused to prescribe him and found Li Jinyong for diagnosis and treatment.

In the "six no cure" rule, doctors should not look at diseases that are not sure, but Li Jinyong not only treats, but also cures. "Many people are afraid that they will not be able to cure their reputations, but he does not, as long as he is allowed to cure, he will cure." Daughter Li Lin recalled.

This practice of medicine, Professor Li Jinyong is still adhering to it until he is old. After the age of 90, although his eyesight was severely deteriorated, one eye was almost blind, and dialogue relied on hearing aids, but the number of seekers for medical treatment was still endless. He would show up in the office at 9 a.m. every day and start the day's work: free clinics, teaching, and doing academic work.

"For those who are good doctors, they can live with them." This sentence is Professor Li Jinyong's medical creed, and he once said: "The life of a doctor is a lifelong thing." ”

Resources:

[1] https://baijiahao.baidu.com/s?id=1731316386103943426&wfr=spider&for=pc mourn! Professor Li Jinyong, a master of traditional Chinese medicine, passed away

[2] http://health.cnhubei.com/rdxw/201410/t20141014_49334.html the master of Traditional Chinese Medicine in Hubei asked why TCM doctoral students do not see a doctor

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