Chapter 1601: Refuting the Uselessness of 'Chinese Medicine'
Next, Wu Hao answered some questions, basically about the medical technology achievements at this conference. Although some questions were tricky, Wu Hao dealt with them easily.
But suddenly a reporter from the south asked another question, which made Wu Hao frown.
This is a tall and thin middle-aged man, probably in his thirties. After he was qualified to ask questions and took the microphone, he took it up slowly, and then asked Wu Hao: "Mr. Wu, hello. .Recently, a medical case has attracted great attention. After taking Chinese medicine for a month, a patient not only was not cured, but also became more serious and eventually died. This has also caused many people to question Chinese medicine again, and even Some people think that traditional Chinese medicine should be eliminated from the medical system, thinking that this is unscientific, a "witch doctor's medicine" and a "placebo", what do you think about this?"
Hearing this question, Wu Hao couldn't help but frowned. Shen Ning on the side was about to refuse the question, but was stopped by Wu Hao's gaze.
He quickly organized his thoughts, then looked at the reporter and said: "I have also paid attention to the news you mentioned. First of all, I would like to express my deep condolences for the unfortunate death of this patient. About the unfortunate death of this patient Whether it is due to problems with traditional Chinese medicine is still under investigation. Before the results of the investigation come out, we should not characterize ourselves. We cannot deny a medical system that has been passed down for thousands of years in the history of our nation just because of a few cases. Value is not only a part of our culture, but also a precious treasure left to us by our ancestors and sages.
In fact, this news is not new news at all in the entire medical system, because in the entire medical system, there are patients who die every day or even every moment. There are traditional Chinese medicine, and there are more Western medicine. The reason why this matter is like this It attracts attention, but it is related to traditional Chinese medicine, which has been relatively controversial in recent years, so it has attracted such huge attention.
So it seems that in everyone's perception and impression, it is common for Western medicine to kill a person, even commonplace, and nothing to make a fuss about. But if a patient dies in Chinese medicine, it will rise to the attention of the whole society.
So I want to ask you the first question here, is this double standard really good?
Of course, I am not defending traditional Chinese medicine here. I hope everyone can look at this issue rationally and not use their shallow knowledge to criticize areas that they are not familiar with. This is irresponsible.
Second, the public generally has misunderstandings about traditional Chinese medicine, and even traditional Chinese medicine. What is Western medicine and Western medicine? The advanced ones are all Western medicine and Western medicine, and the backward ones are all Chinese medicine?
This kind of understanding is ignorant and very foolish.
The general public's understanding of traditional Chinese medicine is still at the stage of seeing, hearing, asking, and decoctions in clay pots. However, the current development of traditional Chinese medicine has become very modern. Many traditional Chinese medicines have been rejuvenated and upgraded after modernization and technological improvements, and they are also effective in treating some diseases. The field played an important role.
The public, however, takes the role played and achievements achieved by these traditional Chinese medicines for granted, and naturally attributes them to Western medicine.
Then, some individual failure cases and some prejudice and ignorance were forcibly added to traditional Chinese medicine.
What is Chinese medicine and Western medicine, and what is Chinese and Western medicine? I think this rough distinction is very ridiculous and ignorant.
Traditional Chinese medicine, in a broad sense, any doctor in our country should actually be called a traditional Chinese medicine, a Chinese medicine doctor. Understood in this way, all pharmaceutical products produced in our country can be called traditional Chinese medicine.
In this way, we can say that the series of medical technological achievements displayed at our press conference last night are all part of traditional Chinese medicine.
The same goes for our external publicity. These are traditional Chinese medicines, and I think they will also become new representatives of traditional Chinese medicine around the world in the future.
If we really need to divide them, we can divide them into traditional medicine systems and modern medicine systems. Perhaps in this era, the traditional medicine system is declining day by day, which is caused by the times. But we cannot deny that the traditional medicine system has been in the past
For thousands of years, it has been one of the fundamentals of our nation's survival. Why our nation has been able to survive countless plagues and diseases, traditional medicine has played an indispensable role.
This is still the case, and traditional medicine is still playing its irreplaceable role, which has been proven in several epidemics.
A very simple example, artemisinin, is derived from traditional medicine, and then stands out from it. Even its purification method is derived from traditional medical classics. It is only large-scale production that uses modern preparation processes, so
Everyone just naturally puts it in the field of Western medicine. This is so ignorant.
Secondly, traditional medicine is used to treat some difficult and complicated diseases, such as acupuncture, traditional massage, scraping and cupping, fumigation, and traditional bone setting, etc.
Anyone who studies orthopedics knows that this traditional set of bone-setting techniques is still very effective in dealing with some emergency and daily related illnesses, and this is also recognized by many patients.
For example, acupuncture does have very strange effects. Just like facial paralysis, which is considered difficult to treat by Western medicine, it has miraculous effects after being treated with traditional acupuncture. Many Western medicine doctors will also
Please recommend them to try the traditional Chinese medicine you recommend.
Another example is massage, scraping, cupping, and fumigation. People naturally classify these into the field of health care. As everyone knows, they are originally part of the traditional medicine system.
I also like these very much. For me after a tiring day, a massage, fumigation or something can really relax me.
Those who attack and discredit the so-called traditional Chinese medicine and traditional Chinese medicine, haven’t you benefited from them and enjoyed the services in this area?
It is true that there are some feudal bad habits in the traditional medicine system. These are caused by historical limitations. We cannot use superficial eyes to criticize and evaluate the sages of hundreds of years ago. This is unfair and undesirable.
In fact, regarding bad habits, there are also Western medicines that everyone talks about, such as the well-known bloodletting therapy, drinking holy water, etc.
With the improvement of society and conceptual understanding, both traditional Chinese medicine and western medicine that everyone calls are constantly changing and improving, so everyone should not look at it with prejudice. Because people who are prejudiced will always look at it.
