Now there are many trolls on the Internet, who always worship the medical level of ancient Chinese medicine, saying that ancient doctors did not have any modern examinations and tests, and they can magically and accurately diagnose the condition and bring people back to life just by looking, smelling, asking, and asking.
At the same time, the trolls also belittled contemporary Chinese medicine, saying that the use of Western medicine by contemporary Chinese medicine doctors is a regression of Chinese medicine, not pure and original antique Chinese medicine. The use of examinations and laboratory tests in traditional Chinese medicine is to insult the reputation of traditional Chinese medicine, it is the westernization of traditional Chinese medicine, and it is to make traditional Chinese medicine nondescript, not Western, not Chinese, and say that in the long run, Chinese medicine will die......
Ever since there was the Internet, there have been trolls. These trolls have low scientific quality, stubborn and radical thinking, do not like anything, blame others indiscriminately, and specialize in raising the bar as a profession. They believe that traditional Chinese medicine should not use examinations and laboratory tests, otherwise they will have no ability and lose the characteristics of traditional Chinese medicine.
Should TCM doctors use Western medicine for examination and testing?
To answer this question, let's first look at the real level of medical care in ancient Chinese medicine. If ancient Chinese medicine could solve all diseases by just looking, smelling, asking, and seeing, then the examination and laboratory tests of Western medicine were superfluous and should not be used.
But what was the true level of ancient Chinese medicine?
To be honest, it's not good, and it can be said to be bad. Traditional Chinese medicine has been used in China for thousands of years, but the average life expectancy of the Chinese population has not improved much. Even the emperors of all dynasties and dynasties still lived a short life when they enjoyed the best TCM diagnosis and treatment services.
The ancient Chinese medicine was the most primitive diagnostic method adopted by the ancients as a last resort under the backward historical conditions of ancient times.
Looking at and hearing and asking about the four diagnoses, looking at the look, hearing is listening to the sound, asking is asking about the condition, and cutting is the pulse. Are these four methods very accurate in diagnosing the disease? To be honest, they are very inaccurate. According to relevant information, patients who were misdiagnosed in ancient times accounted for more than half of the patients diagnosed by traditional Chinese medicine. Because of the subjectivity and arbitrariness, there is no objective and unified diagnostic standard.
Taking pulse diagnosis as an example, many people blow the pulse diagnosis to the gods, the sky is falling, what is the suspense of the pulse, what only relies on the pulse to break life and death, what the pulse to judge the sex of the fetus, in fact, it is pure nonsense.
Anyone who has studied TCM pulse diagnosis knows that pulse diagnosis is the most unreliable. Boasting that pulse diagnosis can judge all diseases, it is a deceitful magic stick. After the founding of the People's Republic of China, the mainland organized many scientific research institutes and experts in traditional Chinese medicine to conduct many pulse diagnosis studies, but in the end, the opinions of various experts were confused and contradictory, and the research was forced to be suspended.
Shanghai College of Traditional Chinese Medicine has invited 10 well-known Chinese medicine practitioners to consult the same patient. As a result, ten famous doctors had ten different diagnoses, some said qi and blood deficiency, some said yang deficiency, some said yin deficiency, some said kidney deficiency, and some said spleen deficiency. Who's right?
It is difficult to reach a consensus on the pulse of the same patient, some of whom say that it is a string pulse, some say that it is a wet pulse, some say that it is a floating pulse, and some say that it is a sinking pulse. Which doctor is right?
It can be seen that only using the ancients' eyes and ears cannot make progress in diagnosis of Chinese medicine.
All the purposes of TCM are to better treat patients, and as long as it is beneficial to patients, all diagnostic methods can be used. For example, in ancient times, we fought wars with broadswords and spears, and in modern times, we use guns and cannons, and the times have changed. When we face the enemy again, we can't still use traditional martial arts to fight the enemy, because then we will die an ugly death.
For example, tuberculosis. When tuberculosis is diagnosed, the patient is dying. In modern times, chest x-rays can detect tuberculosis when the patient is coughing.
For example, hepatitis. How can I tell if it is hepatitis A, hepatitis B or hepatitis C without laboratory tests?
Therefore, society is changing, the times are progressing, and science is developing. Traditional Chinese medicine should also keep pace with the times, absorb all the advanced achievements of human medicine, and use them for our own use. If the boundary and opposition between Chinese medicine and Western medicine are artificially created, and no Western medicine examination and laboratory tests are allowed, then it is not Chinese medicine, because Chinese medicine, from ancient times to the present, has always been constantly evolving!