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Preface:
Since the spread of Western medicine to the mainland, the question of "Chinese medicine is good" or "Western medicine is good" has been debated for no one, and no one has a definite answer, but in 2006, a professor at Central South University openly declared that Chinese medicine was useless and launched a signing meeting attended by tens of thousands of people, demanding that Chinese medicine be completely eradicated. Then you must think that he is a big master in the medical world, right?
No, he is just a professor in the philosophy department, so why does he hate Chinese medicine so much? Is there a hidden secret behind this?
Traditional Chinese medicine has a long history
Traditional Chinese medicine has a history of about thousands of years, as early as ancient times, people found some herbs that can cure diseases and save people, and later there was a character called Shennong, and then there was a legend of "Shennong tastes hundred herbs".
In the records of the "Shiji", Chinese medicine was first related to witch culture.
By the Shang and Zhou dynasties, the system was completely abandoned, and people were replaced by witchcraft. After hundreds of years of chaos, finally China's famous doctor Bian Que was born, Bian Que - the originator of traditional Chinese medicine, good at using "looking, hearing and asking" to diagnose diseases, according to historical records, in the spring and autumn, Bian Que met Cai Huangong, without doing a detailed examination for Cai Huangong but through "looking, hearing and asking" to judge Cai Huangong's illness, thus concluding that Cai Huangong was dying soon, and within a few days, Cai Huangong really died. It can be seen that Bian Que's skills are profound.
After Bian Que, a famous doctor, a famous book followed, China's first medical book "The Inner Canon of the Yellow Emperor", which made Chinese medicine form a complete knowledge system. When the time came to the Eastern Han Dynasty, the mainland's traditional Chinese medicine has developed deeper, and more talents in traditional Chinese medicine have emerged.
Zhang Zhongjing's "Typhoid Miscellaneous Diseases" can be seen from the name that it treats typhoid fever, which is often called internal surgery. In this book, Zhang Zhongjing creatively proposed the prevention and treatment of the epidemic plague. The Shennong Materia Medica, which was the same period as him, further summarized the medicinal properties of the drug and made clear provisions on the prescription and dosage of the drug. TCM is being perfected in all aspects.
At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, Hua Tuo developed hemp boiling for analgesia, and the success of hemp boiling was hundreds of years ahead of the West, and Hua Tuo opened the precedent of using hemp boiling for surgery, which made him a world-famous medical saint.
During the Western Jin Dynasty, he began to study the development of acupuncture in traditional Chinese medicine, and initially formed acupuncture theory, and subsequently, Sun Simiao, the medicine king, proposed the core concept of traditional Chinese medicine, "Great Medical Sincerity", which influenced generations of Chinese medicine practitioners.
It is precisely because of this medical book that the professor of Sun Yat-sen University issued a call to completely eliminate Chinese medicine, Chinese medicine from ancient times to the present day does not know how many lives have been saved, why did he say such absurd words with only one book?
It is not advisable to generalize
The professor of Sun Yat-sen University who proposed the elimination of traditional Chinese medicine is called Zhang Gongyao, in the 80s of the last century, he graduated from Zhejiang University, and the major he studied can be said to be the most unpopular professional philosophy at that time, but in the era when the education was the most valuable, he still successfully entered Sun Yat-sen University as a professor.
As a professor, teaching and educating talents is his job, but Zhang Gongyao does the opposite. Loudly publish the theory that Chinese medicine is useless, and call on the state to abolish Chinese medicine,
In fact, as early as early 2006, Zhang Gongyao published a number of papers criticizing Chinese medicine, which attracted great attention. It has also been criticized by the Chinese medicine industry. But Zhang Gongyao disagreed, and still openly said in a speech at Nanjing University that China should abolish TCM, saying that TCM is authentic pseudoscience.
Seeing this, Zhang Gongyao even intensified, holding a 10,000-person signature event, issuing the slogan of "completely eradicating Chinese medicine", and many people who did not understand this matter rushed to see the excitement, and the matter was getting bigger and bigger. Soon netizens divided into two factions about this matter.
One group believes that TCM is a treasure of the Chinese nation and should not be eliminated. Looking back at history, Chinese medicine does not know how many lives have been saved.
During the raging new crown epidemic, some experts have proposed that raw astragalus, white surgery, etc. can alleviate new crown symptoms, and Academician Zhong Nanshan affirmed that traditional Chinese medicine can alleviate new crown symptoms, and a large number of facts have proved that traditional Chinese medicine is indeed effective.
The other group agrees with Professor Zhang Gongyao that TCM should be eliminated by Western medicine, and that TCM treats diseases slowly. Western medicine, on the other hand, treats diseases very quickly. Since our diseases can be treated well with Western medicine, why not eliminate Chinese medicine? This is actually an exaggeration of the efficacy of Western medicine.
The controversy over Chinese and Western medicine is that netizens are arguing, and netizens are more curious about Zhang Gongyao's idea of proposing the uselessness of traditional Chinese medicine. So why did Zhang Gongyao, a professor who studied philosophy, propose that Chinese medicine is useless?
Through an interview with Zhang Gongyao, we learned that as early as the 30s of the last century, some people questioned traditional Chinese medicine, but the Internet was not developed at that time and did not attract public attention. Zhang Gongyao questioned his predecessors and conducted a systematic study of Chinese medicine, and he found that there are many theories of Chinese medicine that cannot be explained by science.
Among them, the biggest suspicion that caused Zhang Gongyao was Li Shizhen's "Compendium of Materia Medica", which recorded a large number of prescriptions that could not be explained by science, such as the passage that "pigs are zero, cold smell, non-toxic." Mainly treats cold heat, jaundice and dampness. The meaning is that the smell of pig feces is non-toxic and can treat cold and hot jaundice.
In addition, he also claimed that not only was he an authentic pseudoscience to feel that Chinese medicine was useless, but even Mr. Lu Xun, a great writer, also scoffed at Chinese medicine, otherwise why did he travel to Japan to study Western medicine?
Mr. Lu Xun did publish criticism of Chinese medicine, that is because Mr. Lu Xun's father was seriously ill, and his family did not send him to the hospital in time, but relied on a traditional Chinese medicine prescription prescribed by Jianghu Langzhong to continue his life, but Chinese medicine did not save Mr. Lu Xun's father in the end, so he criticized Chinese medicine.
However, after he traveled east to Japan to study Western medicine, he also understood that Western medicine is not omnipotent, and Chinese medicine also has its merits. Mr. Lu Xun also received treatment from traditional Chinese medicine in his later years.
However, Zhang Gongde only saw the prescription in the "Compendium of Materia Medica" that could not be explained by science, and stubbornly believed that Chinese medicine was useless and should be eradicated.
This is a blasphemy against the culture of Chinese medicine that has been passed down for thousands of years, if Chinese medicine cannot save people's lives, why can it be passed down from generation to generation? Why hasn't the country eliminated TCM culture?
Current situation of traditional Chinese medicine
In Professor Zhang Gongyao's mouth, if Chinese medicine is useless, it should be eradicated. But on the contrary, TCM is a national treasure of the mainland, and we should vigorously promote TCM rather than eliminate it. With the development of modern medical care and the demand of the market, TCM is at risk of annihilation.
Just like Zhang Gongyao's vigorous promotion of the uselessness of Chinese medicine above, it is because he saw a prescription that could not be explained scientifically in the "Compendium of Materia Medica", and he one-sidedly believed that the process of Chinese medicine in treating diseases was slow, and the treatment effect of Western medicine was not as fast as that of Western medicine.
And most ordinary people also think that it is generally caused by ignorance of Chinese medicine. Although the treatment process of TCM is slow. But it is milder than Western medicine, and the adverse effects on the human body are much less than Western medicine.
Secondly, the difficulty in training TCM doctors should not be underestimated, in the annual college entrance examination registration, most college entrance examination graduates will choose popular and promising jobs, and TCM is a relatively unpopular discipline is almost unpopular, on the one hand, the employment prospects of TCM are not optimistic.
On the other hand, the five-year start of the traditional Chinese medicine system takes a long time, and there are not many colleges and universities enrolled in traditional Chinese medicine in the mainland, most of them are 211 colleges, and the score is far beyond the first line. Therefore, the requirements for students who want to apply for Chinese medicine are higher.
According to statistics, last year's number of applicants for the TCM qualification certificate exceeded 500,000, but only 25% of them passed, which shows that the screening of TCM is very strict, which has led to a very small number of people engaged in TCM work.
For a long time, Chinese medicine has not been well passed down in the mainland, and the inheritance of Chinese medicine skills is facing severe challenges.
In addition to the mainland reasons, foreign countries are also keen on the mainland's TCM technology, which is little known in the mainland, but our neighbors Japan and South Korea are very popular.
Among them, there is also the most infuriating acupuncture in traditional Chinese medicine treatment, although China is the birthplace of acupuncture, but it cannot stand that South Korea always plays yin behind its back, taking advantage of the mainland's lack of preparation, to apply for the mainland's traditional skills. However, because there are too many traditional skills that can be applied for heritage in the mainland, South Korea has always exploited loopholes.
Do you think only South Korea is so crazy? Japan is crazier than it, and Japan singles out Chinese medicine prescriptions on the mainland. As early as the war, when Japan wantonly invaded the mainland, Japan took a fancy to the mainland's traditional Chinese medicine.
Moreover, under Japan's malicious smear, it bewitched the Chinese people, spread rumors that Chinese medicine was "pseudoscience", and almost made the traditional Chinese medicine that has been passed down for thousands of years disappear on the land of China, and it was some prestigious Chinese medicine scholars who fought hard to stop this farce.
Since entering the modern era, there are thousands of international patents for traditional Chinese medicine, of which Japan occupies more than 2,000, multi-mode shocking figures, you know, registered traditional Chinese medicine prescriptions, China accounts for only 5%. If this trend continues, sooner or later TCM will become Japanese. China is facing unprecedented challenges in patent protection for TCM.
Facing the problem of difficulties in inheriting traditional Chinese medicine, the mainland government has not stopped on the road to protect traditional Chinese medicine skills, and recently the State Council issued the "14th Five-Year Plan for the Development of Traditional Chinese Medicine", which improves the protection of intellectual property rights of Chinese medicine culture and formulates relevant laws and regulations.
New requirements have also been put forward for the cultivation of Chinese medicine talents, and a group of new Chinese medicine talents have been cultivated as soon as possible. In order to break the stereotype of Chinese medicine in the minds of ordinary people, the state has strengthened the publicity of Chinese medicine culture, and now that network technology is so developed, more people will soon understand the valuable value of Chinese medicine!
Epilogue:
Traditional Chinese medicine is the crystallization of thousands of years of wisdom of the working people on the mainland, and Chinese medicine does not know how many people have been saved or how many broken families have been saved. Some people criticize the mainland TCM culture based on a one-sided understanding, which is really ignorant.