In the winter of 2019, COVID-19 swept across our country. In the face of such a ferocious epidemic, our medical workers began to look for a good medicine to ward off this beast. During the treatment diagnosis, such a hearty little story occurred. Huang Luqi, president of china's Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences, inspected the situation of a patient when inspecting the ward, let him take off his mask, and when observing the patient's tongue, he obviously saw that the patient's eyes flashed, and he may be thinking: At such a dangerous moment, not taking off the mask has a great possibility of virus transmission, but also to take off the mask to check the condition, the small action is enough to warm the whole heart.
It can be seen that when a patient is at a critical moment of illness, a small action can become a driving force. Huang Luqi, president of the Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences, also said that our Chinese medicine is warm and technical peers. It can be both comforting and curative.
However, there are always some people who advocate Western medicine and oppose Chinese medicine: the help of Chinese medicine to human diseases only brings some psychological comfort and cannot play a fundamental role, while Western medicine is the truth tested by thousands of clinical experiments, which will be more significant than the effect of Chinese medicine and help patients eradicate some diseases. These people say that Chinese medicine is only a placebo.
The so-called placebo is that the doctor simulates a similar product according to the appearance of the real drug, but the similar product does not contain any drug components. When the patient takes this placebo, a symptom relief occurs.
Is TCM really a placebo?
Chinese medicine has no foundation for scientific experiments, does it really only play the role of a placebo for patients? This statement is certainly untenable, our Chinese medicine culture has been passed down for thousands of years, and it is a treasure of our Chinese culture. In ancient times, when Western medicine had not yet been introduced to China, the people were eating grains and grains, it must be difficult to avoid illness and injury, our Chinese medicine only relies on psychological comfort to save people and treat diseases? This is also unscientific to think about.
There are many examples of traditional Chinese medicine treatment, the famous qing Dynasty doctor Yu Jiayan once used three herbs to cure a 16-year-old child, this child in the summer to work, the weather is hot, get dysentery, diarrhea a day and night to hundreds of times, finally can not get out of bed, can only drink some water every day, no appetite, can not eat anything. Yu Jiayan saw that it was a fire poisoning disease, so he prescribed the three herbs of huanglian, rhubarb, and licorice to make this child's serious illness good.
There is also Mr. Hu Shi, a famous scholar in China, who is an advanced person influenced by Western science, and the new cultural movement he led is also well-known at home and abroad. But he suffered from diabetes in his early years, because he has been influenced by Western culture for a long time, he did not believe in our traditional Chinese medicine treatment, and in order to cure his diabetes, he found many Western medicines, but it was not effective. Finally, I met Lu Zhong'an, a famous TCM practitioner who helped Hu Shi cure his illness. Later, Hu Shi painted a portrait and gave it to Lu Zhong'an to express his gratitude, and he no longer dared to underestimate the efficacy of Chinese medicine. There are countless such examples in the history of the existence and development of traditional Chinese medicine, which is enough to prove that the therapeutic value of traditional Chinese medicine is only the role of a placebo, which has long been eliminated by China.
Is TCM a panacea?
There are some people who absolutely worship Chinese medicine who think that Chinese medicine is magical and can help treat all diseases, and there are some people who are stupid in thinking, never accept the treatment of modern Western medicine, and even do not go to the hospital to see a doctor, thinking that when they go to the hospital, they are going to the ghost door and closing the door, and it is difficult to come back healthy.
Traditional Chinese medicine can help us treat some diseases, but its level of development is also limited. Cheng Chun, secretary of the Party Committee of Nanjing University of Chinese Medicine, once clearly expressed that the view of holding the "omnipotence" of Chinese medicine is "absolutely impossible"! Even if our scientific level is now very developed, there are still some diseases that we have not yet cracked, and Chinese medicine is good at curing some difficult diseases and chronic diseases. Western medicine also has its own areas of expertise, such as the internal structure or changes in our body, Western medicine can be detected by advanced scientific machines, but Chinese medicine is difficult to detect through some external ways. When we have some vascular blockages, we can quickly solve the problem of blockages through angioplasty, and it is difficult to treat them through TCM.
Therefore, we cannot absolutely form the cult theory of Chinese medicine, Chinese medicine and Western medicine are all to help us solve diseases and pain, according to their own diseases, choosing the fastest and most effective medical method is our wisest choice.
Chinese medicine is a treasure handed down from thousands of years of culture in China, and has made great contributions to our national development and human health. We must not only attach importance to our Chinese medicine culture and let it help us stay away from diseases, but also do our part to better spread and carry forward the culture of Chinese medicine.
As early as 2009, Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine established the Research and Dissemination Center of Chinese Medicine Culture, and hired Mr. Qiu Peiran, a top "master of traditional Chinese medicine", as the director of the communication center, which also called on our Chinese medicine university to take the lead in driving us and setting off a wave of dissemination and development of Chinese medicine culture. The knowledge of Chinese medicine itself is also a profound knowledge, and it is more conducive to the professional development of Chinese medicine culture through professional scholars.
In addition to facing professionals, the dissemination of our Traditional Chinese medicine culture should also be oriented to our general public, which can spread more medical knowledge that is easy to understand, so that we can be used, disseminated and promoted in life.
The value of Chinese medicine is not only the curative effect, but also brings us warmth, it is not only a placebo on the road of our disease and a curative drug on the road of our disease, and protecting the culture of Chinese medicine is also the responsibility of each of our Chinese!