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"I strongly request that Chinese medicine be banned! Traditional Chinese medicine is immortal, and heaven is unbearable! ”
Not long ago, a professor named Zhang Gongyao of Central South University even launched a 10,000-signature campaign, advocating that the content is to cancel Chinese medicine, and in his view, Chinese medicine is useless, and even if it is not canceled, it is unreasonable.
This matter caused a lot of discussion among netizens, because everyone has their own opinions, so three schools have formed on the Internet, some of which netizens agree with Professor Zhang Gongyao's point of view, believing that Chinese medicine is a waste left over from feudal society, and is a typical representative of thinking that does not want to progress and does not want to accept new things.
However, many netizens believe that after thousands of years of precipitation, Chinese medicine not only forms its own set of systems, but also is more suitable for Chinese physique, which is the essence of the traditional culture of the Chinese nation, which not only cannot be abolished but should also be vigorously promoted; The rest of the netizens are more objective, believing that Chinese medicine is indeed more scientific than Western medicine, but it cannot be completely denied.
Regarding the view on whether TCM should be abolished, different views have formed on the Internet, and the stalemate has no result in the end, so is TCM really so backward? Should it be canceled?
10,000 signatures banning the theory of traditional Chinese medicine
Zhang Gongyao, who graduated from Zhejiang University in 1988 with a master's degree in philosophy, became a professor of philosophy at Central South University with the advantage of high education, although the discipline of philosophy is less practical, but Zhang Gongyao is also a veritable high-achieving student of a famous school, naturally respected by everyone.
When studying the philosophical thought of China for 5,000 years, Zhang Gongyao accidentally discovered that traditional Chinese medicine also contains unique philosophical ideas, so he began the research path of his philosophical thoughts on Chinese medicine, but after reading a large number of Chinese medicine books and consulting a large number of materials, philosophical ideas did not achieve much, but he found "problems" in Chinese medicine.
In the "Compendium of Materia Medica" records a puzzled prescription, that is, if a child cries in the middle of the night, you can burn a rope used to bind pigs to ashes, and the napkin edema is enough to drink it for the child, but this prescription does not have any scientific basis, and it also makes many people half-believe.
Similarly, it can be said that the rope of suicide can be cut off three fingers long, and then boiled and drunk with aged pampa to treat the symptoms of epilepsy, which is also without any basis, but it is recorded in the "Compendium of Materia Medica", which makes Zhang Gongyao feel very shocked, but not a magical shock but a shock of doubt.
Although I don't know if these methods are really useful, Zhang Gong always feels incredible when he wants to see these recorded methods, after all, if pigs and ropes used for hanging can cure diseases, advanced drug research and surgical treatment are required.
Moreover, burning these ropes to ashes and mixing them with water is not only unhygienic, but may even cause physical discomfort, and what is the difference between them and the "rune water" of the feudal era? In his opinion, these methods not only do not work, but even insult the intelligence of contemporary people.
In addition, when studying medical books, Zhang Gongyao also found a problem, that is, as China's national essence, there is no standard, and there is no standard for the specific efficacy and use of various drugs, such as where or how many times to pierce acupuncture treatment, there is no specific process and standard.
Or in terms of pulse diagnosis, it can only rely on words and deeds, there is no specific rules and strict standard treatment courses, as if as long as it is diagnosed more, it will naturally have its own set of diagnosis and treatment plans, but the beginners of traditional Chinese medicine are completely touching the stones to cross the river, so in Zhang Gongyao's view, traditional Chinese medicine is simply a set of tricks, no visual standard process.
After studying medical books, he chose to hold a signature event to see everyone's attitude towards traditional Chinese medicine in Chinese culture, and also published an article on the Internet, probably meaning that he hoped that the country could ban Chinese medicine, otherwise it would be unreasonable.
Therefore, this 10,000-person signature activity also caused a large number of netizens to participate and discuss, and there was a fierce debate on whether traditional Chinese medicine was useful and whether it should be canceled, which formed the three opinions at the beginning of the article, and all parties had their own opinions and argued, and finally did not form a unified view.
However, after the debate between the three parties, many people also have a lot of questions, that is, where should Chinese medicine go in the future, and will it really be canceled? Is it really completely useless as the crystallization of the wisdom of the ancients accumulated over thousands of years? And how to correctly apply the theory of Chinese medicine?
Although there is no conclusion on the future of Chinese medicine, this "uselessness of Chinese medicine" has been around for a long time, not only contemporary people can see the irrationality, there have been doubts a long time ago, and even the statement that Chinese medicine is a liar.
The theory that Chinese medicine is useless has long been known
As early as more than a hundred years ago, some people began to discuss whether the role of traditional Chinese medicine is really effective, and Mr. Lu Xun, a great writer and revolutionary during the Republic of China, once questioned traditional Chinese medicine, and once said in his article that traditional Chinese medicine is basically a group of liars who deliberately or unintentionally deceive patients and their families.
The reason why Lu Xun has such thoughts and doubts is mainly related to his experience when he was young, Lu Xun's father was seriously ill when he was young, in order to be able to treat his father, Lu Xun's family had to spend a lot of money every month to invite the local Langzhong, so Lu Xun lived a difficult life since he was a child.
But even if a lot of the family's expenses were spent on his father taking medicine to see a doctor, his father's condition still did not improve, and even became more and more serious day by day, until four years later, Lu Xun's father still died in the torment of illness, such an experience made Lu Xun deeply suspicious of Chinese medicine.
Not only did the expensive diagnosis money not cure the disease, but the prescriptions prescribed by the local langzhong were also strange, such as "original crickets" and so on, this somewhat absurd TCM theory made Lu Xun have a distrust of TCM from the beginning.
Coupled with the turbulent social situation in China at that time, many people began to rely on pit abduction to eat in order to survive, so Jianghu Langzhong became the best choice to disguise their identity, so many people were deceived, but in fact, they did not have real talents, naturally could not practice medicine to save people.
So over time, these quacks and lakes damaged the image of Chinese medicine, causing many people to think that Chinese medicine to save people are quacks, there is no substantive effect at all, the young and ignorant Lu Xun naturally regarded all these problems as the result of the uselessness of Chinese medicine, so he ran to Japan to start studying medicine, hoping to change the situation in China at that time.
But also in the process of studying, Lu Xun came into contact with many Chinese medicine practitioners with real talents, and witnessed the scene of real Chinese medicine doctors treating patients, so Lu Xun put aside his prejudices about Chinese medicine and gradually improved, but this can also feel that in fact, the "uselessness of Chinese medicine" has a long history.
Not only Lu Xun believes that Chinese medicine is a trick to deceive people, but also Mr. Hu Shi, a well-known figure in the Republic of China, and the leader of anti-Chinese medicine in the early Republic of China, believes that in 1920 he was replaced with diabetes and nephritis, and after being treated in Union Hospital for a long time, but there was still no sign of improvement, Western medicine also directly gave up the verdict that there was no cure.
Cornered, Hu Shi began to try Chinese medicine under the introduction of a friend, and after the conditioning of Lu Zhongan, a famous Chinese medicine practitioner in Shanghai, he finally got better, but he still thought that the theory of Chinese medicine was absurd and not scientific enough, but he also admitted that Chinese medicine is not completely useless, and Guo Moruo, a master of Chinese studies, also had the same thought.
It can be seen that in fact, as early as more than a hundred years ago, many people have proposed the "theory of the uselessness of traditional Chinese medicine", or that many theories of traditional Chinese medicine have no scientific basis and no standard process, but it seems that it is not rational enough to overturn the theory of traditional Chinese medicine with a stick, because how can the national essence left over after thousands of years be completely useless.
It is precisely because of this contradictory view that there are completely different views on Chinese medicine on the Internet, of course, there are some customers who maintain an objective and neutral attitude, but the strange prescriptions in Chinese medicine are really not flattering.
Strange prescriptions are ridiculous, and Chinese medicine works in the West
In the prescription of traditional Chinese medicine, formulas such as bundles of hogweed, hanging ropes, original crickets and other formulas have also existed, but a large part of this is not real traditional Chinese medicine, but those who are deceived by quacks to deceive the public, if they use their own prescriptions and do not cure the disease, then the fault is not in themselves, but in the person who grabbed the medicine.
As for the records in the "Compendium of Materia Medica", such as tying hogweed and hanging ropes, in fact, it is not too true, because it is related to the process of Li Shizhen compiling this book, and Li Shizhen's medical skills are actually not smart, and he is not a "divine doctor" at all.
At that time, when he wrote the "Compendium of Materia Medica", he just felt that there were too many strange medicinal materials in the world, and he should consult a variety of books when diagnosing and prescribing medicines, and the relevant records of the same medicinal herb in different books were also very different, so he compiled the "Compendium of Materia Medica", and hoped that people with excellent medical skills could study the authenticity of the prescription.
Therefore, the "Compendium of Materia Medica" is not strictly a book that records the diagnosis and treatment methods, but a book about herbal medicine, and the strange prescriptions that appear on it are also collected from various places when Li Shizhen traveled across the country, and it is not clear whether these prescriptions are effective Li Shizhen himself.
However, since the introduction of Western medicine during the Republic of China, the debate between Chinese and Western medicine has not stopped, and even many people blame the reason why Chinese medicine has been gradually eliminated on not making money, and hype the "theory that Chinese medicine is useless" is to let everyone choose Western medicine, so that they can pocket the money.
But in fact, this idea is too extreme, and those who are completely useless for Chinese medicine, but also made a fundamental mistake, the so-called Western medicine here should actually be called modern medicine, and modern medicine is also integrated into the medical concept of traditional Chinese medicine.
For example, the concept of proprietary Chinese medicine in Western medicine is to use traditional Chinese medicinal materials as raw materials, under the guidance of Chinese medicine theory to standardize the production of traditional Chinese medicine, of course, in modern medicine there are also many chronic diseases are helpless, and there are very few diseases that can be cured by medical means.
And whether it is traditional Chinese medicine or Western medicine, in fact, it is not how clever the drugs and medical methods are, but the doctor's use of his own medical skills to cooperate with the human immune system and self-healing ability to cure the disease, so the most useful is their own immune system and self-healing ability.
Traditional Chinese medicine has long discovered this, so traditional Chinese medicine is milder in medicinal properties, except for a few emergencies, the vast majority of cases are in the treatment of diseases, to the greatest extent to protect the patient's own immune system, can allow patients to improve their own immunity to fight diseases.
Of course, once modern medicine also tried to completely break away from traditional medicine, relying on its own ability to treat patients' diseases, but in the end it was defeated by reality, and after finding that modern medicine could not cure diseases, many medical scholars began to learn the concepts in Chinese medicine, and the protection of patients themselves was also put in the first place.
Therefore, although there are many absurd or incomprehensible formulas and concepts in Chinese medicine, there are still many fun places, such as Japanese Chinese herbal medicine and rose massage and massage techniques are also learned from Chinese medicine theory, of course, the artemisinin discovered by Tu Youyou, who won the Nobel Prize in medicine, is also inspired by an ancient medicine.
Therefore, it is also because many people feel the efficacy of traditional Chinese medicine, so this 10,000-person signing meeting has become more complicated, and there have been many objections, but after Professor Zhang Gongyao proposed to ban traditional Chinese medicine, a large number of professional medical professionals and many patients cured by traditional Chinese medicine expressed their opposition.
Some people even accused Zhang Gongyao, as a professor of philosophy, who probably did not even know what medicine to take when he had a cold, why did he accuse "Chinese medicine is useless" here, and even said such extreme remarks as "Chinese medicine is not extinguished, and heaven is intolerable", and even hoped to completely ban Chinese medicine.
Although I don't know if Professor Zhang Gongyao's attitude towards Chinese medicine has changed after this discussion, we know that this medicine that has been passed down for thousands of years has not only accumulated and precipitated the essence of history for thousands of years, but also continues to develop with the times, abandon its dregs to take its essence, and continue to progress with the development of medicine.
I wonder what kind of views do you hold on Chinese medicine? Does it support Zhang Gongyao's view of completely banning Chinese medicine, or does he think that Chinese medicine has a use and should not be abandoned altogether? Whatever the point of view, it is more important that you can heal through some when you are sick.