He is a well-known professor at Central South University, but he openly called for "Chinese medicine must be eradicated, Chinese medicine will not be destroyed, and heaven will not tolerate it". The famous professor even launched a campaign with 10,000 signatures, demanding that the state crack down on traditional Chinese medicine and completely ban it.
This person's name is Zhang Gongyao, and in 2006, his anti-TCM theory set off a heated discussion in society.
As a native Chinese, as a high-level intellectual, Zhang Gongyao has forgotten his ancestors and wants to eradicate the things of his ancestors, not to mention that today's Chinese medicine also plays the greatest value in clinical practice.
Why, then, did he behave in such a deviant manner, and where did his theory of calling for the outboling of Chinese medicine come from?
1. Well-known professors took the lead in boycotting traditional Chinese medicine
"In fact, I don't think Chinese medicine is useful at all, or just delete Chinese medicine from the medical insurance system, in clinical practice, it will not play any role at all, and it is better to simply abolish Chinese medicine." "Every sentence seems to be stepping on the tip of the hearts of the Chinese people.
These words were made by Zhang Gongyao, a professor at Central South University, to the NDRC through the Internet in 2006. Throughout the report, he described the negative impact of TCM on the country as a whole, and advised the NDRC to abolish TCM completely.
When this remark circulated on the Internet, all netizens almost couldn't believe their eyes: What? A well-known professor at Central South University actually took the lead in boycotting Chinese medicine and the things of our ancestors?
This makes many people feel very puzzling, and at the same time, some people directly questioned Zhang Gongyao under his social platform account: Have you studied Chinese medicine? Why do you think that Chinese medicine is useless? Is it because you are not good at Chinese medicine that you can deny all Chinese medicine?
Some people think that Chinese medicine should not be abolished, and naturally some people think that Chinese medicine is inferior to Western medicine, and some of them cater to Zhang Gongyao's views.
What this group of people means is that in clinical practice, the effect of Western medicine is very fast and accurate, and there are reliable experimental data, and clinical experience can provide reference, while Chinese medicine only has a few broken books, and the experience studied is already a few years ago, and it cannot be used for reference in modern times.
The two sides have set off a public opinion war on the Internet, supporting traditional Chinese medicine to denounce the harm of Western medicine, and supporting Western medicine to say that traditional Chinese medicine is a trick of some charlatans to deceive the world and steal fame.
During the fierce debate between the two sides, Zhang Gongyao explained: "I think that believing in Chinese medicine is believing in feudal superstition, and Chinese medicine does not have any scientific nature at all, has no scientific basis, and is just a means for people to paralyze themselves." ”
Everyone didn't expect that after being persuaded and abused by many fans, Zhang Gongyao still had to insist on exporting his own views, which made many people unacceptable: As a professor at a well-known university, you can say the view that traditional Chinese medicine has been abolished without any basis for research.
No matter how netizens deny Zhang Gongyao's views, he has repeatedly "provoked".
Soon after, Zhang Gongyao launched a signature call on his blog, intending to solicit consent for the withdrawal of traditional Chinese medicine from the national medical system. In just a few days, the number of signatures exceeded 10,000.
There are many people who support TCM who do not understand, because most of the many people who signed the petition are people in the health field, so are there many people in the health field who are medical experts who also support the abolition of TCM?
2. Launched a campaign of 10,000 signatures for the cancellation of traditional Chinese medicine
This matter has intensified, and many people have openly sided with Zhang Gongyao.
A well-known figure, Wang Xinjun, a 2004 Ph.D. student at Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, has set up a blogosphere on the Internet to discuss whether traditional Chinese medicine should be abolished.
Although he asked everyone to communicate together, the subject matter was a little crooked. Because the whole title he set was "Communicate with each other and uncover the scam of Chinese medicine pseudoscience".
Under the leadership of high-level intellectuals, many people also fell to the side of attacking traditional Chinese medicine, and in order to completely refute the crowd, Zhang Gongyao came up with professional theories to expound.
He said that he himself had written a paper called "Farewell to Traditional Chinese Medicine", in which he listed detailed views and arguments to express the reasons why if the method of traditional Chinese medicine is used in modern times, it is very likely to bring great sequelae and harm to patients.
Zhang Gongyao means "Chinese medicine lacks a degree".
For example, the ancient remedies, cupping massages and eating herbs that people especially like nowadays have lost a standard of degree. There is no degree, toxic things are harmful to the body, it is difficult to study in a short period of time, and it will naturally cause immeasurable damage to the human body for a long time.
And these are things that cannot be explored in time.
He also listed another problem - looking, hearing and asking, which reflects the process of ancient people who had to use their keen senses to diagnose diseases without medical equipment.
He believes that this method is backward when modern times already have advanced medical machines.
And Zhang Gongyao also pointed out unceremoniously: The reason why some people will do everything to defend traditional Chinese medicine is just to live with peace of mind with ancient thoughts. They are able to get some spiritual comfort from Chinese medicine and Chinese medicine, which is essentially a fear of death and a distrust of new knowledge.
Zhang Gongyao's remarks angered most netizens: Why do you say that we get spiritual comfort through Chinese medicine, and why can you judge the uselessness of Chinese medicine so easily?
When the online noise became more and more intense, Zhang Gongyao did not cancel his campaign to launch 10,000 signatures, on the contrary, he kept declaring that "traditional Chinese medicine must be canceled", basically ignoring the statements of those who opposed it.
So, is Chinese medicine really useless? Or does what Zhang Gongyao say have some truth?
In fact, the reason why Chinese medicine is facing such an embarrassing dilemma today is due to many reasons.
Traditional Chinese medicine has existed in China for thousands of years, and the reliable basis is the medical books written by Zhang Zhongjing, Sun Simiao and others, these things are composed of Chinese characters, and the theory is not complicated, but anyone who can read and write can know the plants depicted in the picture with just a few glances.
This also means that there are many ill-intentioned charlatans who can use the depiction of three words and two words to swagger and deceive under the guise of traditional Chinese medicine, for example, in the traditional Chinese medicine hall that is now open on the market, how many people have obtained the qualification of traditional Chinese medicine? They just think that they are familiar with a few books on traditional Chinese medicine and can go up the mountain to collect medicine, so they pretend to be "barefoot doctors" on the ground, and these people confuse the water in the field of traditional Chinese medicine experts, so that the people have a wrong understanding of traditional Chinese medicine.
3. The advantages and disadvantages of traditional Chinese medicine and Western medicine are based on opinions
With the rapid development of modern information technology, Chinese medicine does have a huge flaw compared with Western medicine - its effect is very long, Western medicine can be effective in half an hour or even 20 minutes, while Chinese medicine needs a long period of recuperation.
For example, when a patient has heavy bleeding, how many kinds of forage do you need to boil into medicine, and how many pure natural plant pills need to be used to quickly stop the fluctuation of the aorta, and this situation can be quickly dealt with by Western medicine.
Whether it is to administer Demerol to the patient or to use a quick hemostatic agent, these are immediate results that can ensure the life of the patient as soon as possible.
Some people believe that Western medicine has many sequelae, for example, veterans who have retired from the battlefield will have more or less the consequences of drug addiction.
However, in extremely dangerous situations, is it addiction worth considering, or is it worth saving life? Therefore, TCM is almost helpless in the face of these situations.
Even so, is Chinese medicine extinct? This proposition was pushed to the front of the public by Zhang Gongyao.
Many opponents of traditional Chinese medicine, led by Zhang Gongyao, believe that traditional Chinese medicine should be abolished because it has no benefit.
But in fact, Chinese medicine has undergone new changes and has been rejuvenated with new vitality and vitality.
Tu Youyou, who won the Nobel Prize in Medicine, uses artemisinin, an important substance from traditional Chinese medicine.
This is a great discovery in the field of medicine, and it is also a great exaltation of Chinese medicine.
From this, it can be seen that Chinese medicine is not useless, and it should not even be banned. Although there are some incompleteness among those who support Chinese medicine, Chinese medicine has not reached the point where it deserves death.
Zhang Gongyao and others blindly stood in the perspective of Western medicine to worship foreign countries and attack traditional Chinese medicine, but in fact, they did not consider the way out of traditional Chinese medicine in modern times from a holistic perspective.
As a high-level intellectual, he should lead many scholars to better develop and innovate Chinese medicine, rather than directly one-size-fits-all.
Some netizens also have their own reasons for supporting Zhang Gongyao's views, they said: We are not black Chinese medicine, but black current Chinese medicine, the problem of current Chinese medicine is that it cannot inherit the advantages of previous Chinese medicine, nor can it carry forward the advantages of current Chinese medicine.
There is no doubt that there is a difference between doctors today and the ancients, the more primitive human beings are, the more sensitive they are, so the diagnostic ability is lower than in the past, which means that some traditional Chinese medicine treatment methods cannot adapt to the development of modern medicine at all.
Some netizens defended modern Chinese medicine: For example, immune medicine, which is very popular abroad, is actually very similar to the theory of traditional Chinese medicine, especially in terms of disease prevention and dietary conditioning.
It can only be said that traditional Chinese medicine has a certain forward-looking and certain experience to learn from, but in modern society, scientific means are still needed to further confirm, after all, there is no theoretical basis, no data support, no clinical experience, and no patient dares to apply the technology of Chinese patent medicine and Chinese medicine to their own body.