Chinese medicine may be simple and inexpensive, but if it is charged, it will not support the hospital. According to the State Administration of Traditional Chinese Medicine, the cost and value of 54 TCM service charges in 66 traditional Chinese medicine hospitals were compared, and the results showed that 40 of the 54 items, that is, nearly 3/4 of the projects were operating at a loss. The most commonly used traditional Chinese medicine fumigation treatment, fracture manual reconstruction, ordinary acupuncture, auricular acupuncture, moxibustion, and cupping therapy have negative profit rates. However, the price difference between Western medicine and traditional Chinese medicine hospitals is large, and the cost of instrument testing and laboratory testing is expensive, which can make profits for hospitals and generate income for doctors, so traditional Chinese medicine hospitals purchase a large number of Western medicines and medical instruments and equipment. According to statistics, 70% of the prescriptions prescribed by the "Chinese medicine hospital" are from Western medicine. 40% of the drug income of the national level TCM hospitals is Chinese medicine and 60% is Western medicine.
According to Wang Li, an attending physician in the respiratory department of Peking University People's Hospital, an elderly woman patient who had been coughing for more than two months had taken a variety of antibiotics and cough suppressants in a western hospital and did not get better. One specialist went so far as to give a patient an antibiotic while taking Chinese herbal medicine. A month later, the condition did not improve. Wang Li took a look at the prescription prescribed by the expert of the Chinese medicine hospital, and the prescription was all heat-clearing drugs and cough suppressants, and the amount of ten days was prescribed each time, and the syndrome differentiation and treatment were not carried out according to the theory of traditional Chinese medicine, but were influenced by the theory of Western medicine. Wang Li prescribed three pairs of Chinese medicine to the patient, and her cough cured three days later.
Jia Qian, who is also the leader of the strategic research group of traditional Chinese medicine, believes that the doctors in the traditional Chinese medicine hospital cannot master the theories and skills of traditional Chinese medicine, and the level of Western medicine cannot be compared with that of professional Western medicine doctors, so the traditional Chinese medicine hospital has been reduced to a "second-rate western hospital".
In view of the increasingly serious situation of the westernization of traditional Chinese medicine, and the reality that traditional Chinese medicine hospitals have become second-rate western hospitals, the "People's Daily" published an article ""Westernization of traditional Chinese medicine, weakening of characteristics, and will inevitably lose itself!" to re-evaluate traditional Chinese medicine
A small grass changes the world, a silver needle connects China and the West, and a wisp of medicinal fragrance travels through the ancient and modern ...... Traditional Chinese medicine contains thousands of years of health preservation concepts and practical experience of the Chinese nation, and is a treasure of Chinese civilization, embodying the broad wisdom of the Chinese people and the Chinese nation.
"It is necessary to follow the law of the development of traditional Chinese medicine". In the past 100 years, with the westerly wind, Western medicine has become mainstream medicine, and traditional Chinese medicine has shown a trend of marginalization. Facts have proved that once traditional Chinese medicine deviates from its own law of development, traditional Chinese medicine is westernized and its characteristics weakened, and it will inevitably lose itself. Therefore, no matter how we look at traditional Chinese medicine, study traditional Chinese medicine, or use traditional Chinese medicine and promote traditional Chinese medicine, we must follow the law of the development of traditional Chinese medicine itself. It was so, it is now, and it will be so in the future.
To follow the law of the development of traditional Chinese medicine, we must maintain the true character of traditional Chinese medicine. The basic theories of traditional Chinese medicine, such as Taoism and nature, the unity of nature and man, the balance of yin and yang, the harmony of the middle, and the differentiation of syndromes and treatments, contain the cultural genes of the Chinese nation and are the crystallization of the wisdom of the Chinese nation. In the course of thousands of years of development, traditional Chinese medicine has formed a unique view of the universe, life, health, disease, and prevention and treatment. These theories are formed by long-term accumulation and are the foundation for the survival and development of traditional Chinese medicine. At present, many TCM secret recipes, prescriptions and diagnosis and treatment techniques are at risk of being lost. We should fully explore the traditional Chinese medicine technology hidden in ancient books, scattered among the people, and integrated into life, organize and collect and protect it, and better inherit it for the benefit of human health.
To follow the law of the development of traditional Chinese medicine, it is necessary to reform the management system of traditional Chinese medicine. Although traditional Chinese medicine and Western medicine have something in common, they are inevitably different in management due to different diagnosis and treatment thinking and different prevention and treatment methods. We should follow the law of the development of traditional Chinese medicine as the starting point and foothold of policy formulation, adhere to the principle of giving full play to the characteristic advantages of traditional Chinese medicine, improving the efficacy of traditional Chinese medicine, and meeting the needs of the people, and establish a management system that conforms to the characteristics of traditional Chinese medicine. If the management model of Western medicine is simply applied, it is likely to backfire and hinder the development of Chinese medicine. Therefore, we should highlight the systematic and holistic nature of traditional Chinese medicine, fix the characteristic advantages of traditional Chinese medicine with systems, standards and norms, and preserve the roots of traditional Chinese medicine.
Following the law of the development of traditional Chinese medicine does not mean self-isolation, let alone conformism. The development of traditional Chinese medicine needs to be inclusive, and learn from and absorb modern scientific and technological achievements. However, if you leave the main position of traditional Chinese medicine and lose the original thinking of traditional Chinese medicine, no matter how much high-tech is integrated, it will be in vain. We should not only follow the law of our own development, but also use modern scientific and technological means to promote the creative transformation and innovative development of traditional Chinese medicine.
Traditional Chinese medicine originated in the land of China and is rooted in Chinese culture. Traditional Chinese medicine is both ancient and modern, but also futureary. Only by following the law of the development of traditional Chinese medicine, basing ourselves on the foundation, excavating the essence, and maintaining the characteristics of traditional Chinese medicine, can traditional Chinese medicine take deep roots and flourish, and the art of Qihuang can be endless. It is the unshirkable responsibility and mission of the Chinese to let Chinese medicine always have the surname "Zhong".