I have never heard that the father of Chinese medicine is Hua Tuo, nor have I heard who the father of Western medicine is. The development of medicine is the result of the accumulation of the continuous efforts of millions of medical workers to learn. No single person can create a discipline on his own.

When this is dissected, TCM fans are going to blow up again!

This incident is a very good illustration of how ancient Chinese medicine lags behind modern medicine!

Hua Tuo, the granddaddy of Chinese medicine, was unfortunately killed by Cao Cao. He invented Ma Fu San, gave Guan Yunchang a bone scraping treatment, and attempted to perform open-heart surgery on Cao Cao. If he had continued on this path and done cadaveric dissections, within a few generations, he would have inevitably developed Chinese anatomy , anesthesiology, and surgery ......

Next, Western medicine will not be introduced to China, but Chinese medicine will be introduced to the West. And modern medicine will not be called "Western medicine" in China; on the contrary, modern medicine will be called "Oriental medicine" when it comes to the West!

Unfortunately, however, Hua Tuo died, Cao Cao's head was not opened, anatomy did not develop in China, and anesthesiology was not further developed in Chinese medicine.

Later on, Chinese medicine still followed the same old path of traditional Chinese medicine, with few innovations in later generations. The basic anatomy, physiology, pathology, etc. did not develop significantly, or the old philosophical approach. What our ancestors left behind for future generations is the theoretical framework of yin and yang, five elements, cold and heat, and emptiness.

Then later, Hua Tuo became a myth in Chinese medicine, becoming a goal that later generations of Chinese medicine practitioners will never be able to reach ......

In contrast, Hippocrates, after overthrowing Aristotle's logical reasoning medical research, advocated the practical nature of medical research. Simply put, it means that a method that has been empirically validated and contrasted, and is indeed better for the patient, is a good method. Comparison is important.

To put it more simply: it doesn't matter if it's a white cat or a black cat, the key is to be able to catch the rat.

Or: Practice is the only standard for testing truth.

Or: get the facts.

In short, comparisons are important. There are no theoretical frameworks tied up here, just a belief in one, solving real patient problems.

Because it is not bound by rules and regulations, Western medicine is innovating rapidly in the latter days. Every new discovery triggered a change in medicine.

Then look at Chinese medicine in reverse. Hua Tuo - a god-like figure, he was the brave man who dared to innovate. And after Hua Tuo, there were no more brave men; without innovation, there was no progress, and later generations naturally felt inferior to Hua Tuo.

But as things go, this statement, does not extinguish Chinese medicine. My purpose in writing this reply is not to extinguish Chinese medicine either.

Chinese medicine developed from the philosophical theories of the Yellow Emperor's Classic of Internal Medicine, Yin-Yang and the Five Elements, whose roots lie in the mind, is said to be rather materialistic. However, although people are material beings, they are controlled by the human heart.

The human brain has very amazing functions, many of which we have not tapped into. Ancient Chinese medicine practitioners, looking, sniffing and cutting, can see a lot of problems, relying on the human brain under the control of the body's perceptual power. This kind of perception, reflecting the ultimate human wisdom, non-cultivators can hardly understand.

Chinese medicine has gone through a catastrophe in modern times, with several generations broken off in between, and what exactly we have lost is not clear to modern people. It is not known whether the Chinese medicine enthusiasts of later generations will someday reverse the trend.

However, the innovations of Hua Tuo back then have been surpassed by Western medicine as far as the two highlights of Ma Fu San and cranial opening are concerned.

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【Guest】Pan Fang, Director of Outpatient Department of Beijing Gulou Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Deputy Chief Physician of Traditional Chinese Medicine

The father of Chinese medicine is not Hua Tuo, and the father of Western medicine is not Hippocrates.

Speaking of the father of something or other, he must have left a pioneering, emblematic contribution to the discipline.

As far as Western medicine is concerned, modern Western medicine is based on the disciplines of statistics, microbiology, genetics, anatomy, pathology, hemodynamics, drug metabolism, molecular biology, and so on, which is to say that without the advancement of modern science, there would be no such thing as Western medicine. Hippocrates also did not make any contribution to modern medicine at all, basically based on the fact that Hippocrates invented what therapies, modern Western medicine is still in clinical application?

The same is true of Hua Tuo, who was too early in his life to have a legend, and left no systematic information for future generations to study. Hua Tuo Zhongzangjing or Wu Pu Ben Cao, the value is not great, not prominent in the books of the same generation. As for what the Ma Bo San and so on, there is still no information, blowing the sky, or not. Surgery, or to give Cao Cao craniotomy, this is simply impossible, bragging on the sky, are against basic common sense.

Western medicine, as a large modern discipline, has little father, because no one is so awesome as to make big contributions to the entire frontiers of the discipline, it's all about small steps forward from what came before, and to say that Hippocrates is nothing more than a white man puffing himself up to put gold in his own face.

The father of TCM tonics is Zhang Zhongjing, and the father of acupuncture can barely be said to be Huang Fuquan

Researchers in Western medicine are limited by the intellectual background and technological conditions of their own time, and fly by the seat of their pants to advance a little bit, like holding a flashlight, and can only see a little bit farther forward

The father of Chinese medicine soup, Zhang Zhongjing is not so, the sky does not give birth to Zhongjing Wanqi as long as the night, he is like a sun, illuminating the whole planet, Chinese medicine descendants and then bully, no one jumped out of its category.

When did Hua Tuo become the father of Chinese medicine? What did Hua Tuo contribute to Chinese medicine after him?

There's that too, right? It's said that the current technique of knocking pigs and goring oxen was passed down from Hua Tuo, but that's not the job of a TCM doctor...

It is difficult to say that there is a father of Chinese medicine, because Chinese medicine existed and developed until the end of the Han Dynasty, and then flourished in the hands of Hua Tuo and Zhongjing, who had writings in their possession, while Hua Tuo did not! Zhongjing's influence on the later generations of Chinese medicine is very great, he established the rationale, methodology, prescription and medication, diagnosis and treatment of Chinese medicine diagnostic basis, if Zhongjing is the father of Chinese medicine, may be able to make sense, but even so, the generations called Zhongjing as the saint of medicine, but there has never been a founder of the claim of the medical profession!

And Hua Tuo? Come on, did he have any impact on the development of Chinese medicine? Did he? And what makes him the father of Chinese medicine?

Ancient Chinese people were very careful with the word "holy". Confucius said: "Those who are born to know are first; those who learn to know are second; those who are trapped and learn are second; those who are trapped and do not learn are second; those who are trapped and do not learn are second.

The word saint is the prerogative of those who are born to know; ordinary people are not qualified to be called saints. Who were the saints in ancient times? The Three Emperors and the Five Emperors were all legendary people born with special abilities. In later times, people like Confucius, Mencius, and Zhongjing were also called saints, which was not reasonable in the ancient times.

Why is Zhang Zhongjing known as the Sage of Medicine?

Because he was an ordinary man who used the stupid methods of ordinary men to achieve medical results that could only be achieved by saints.

Zhongjing book, there is no perspective eyes, there is no common people can not perceive things, unlike the magpie has perspective eyes, unlike Hua Tuo can talk to the grass and trees, he is an ordinary person, can only distinguish a few sounds roughly the difference, can only distinguish a simple floating and sinking on the pulse strong and weak, and not like some famous doctors can know through the pulse you fell to your feet three years ago ... can only see the ordinary people enough to distinguish the color of the . He is just an ordinary person.

But it is with this ordinary ability, which ordinary people can do, that one can achieve the medical effects that can only be achieved by a magpie who was born with strange abilities. Wasn't he a saint?

In my opinion, Chinese medicine has a chance to take a different path and have a "father of modern Chinese medicine". Unfortunately ......

Medical Corrections

The ancients said: "If you can't be a good prime minister, you can be a good doctor. It is easy to be a good doctor but difficult to be a good minister.

I said: Not so. Rule of good ministers, generations have; book of good doctors, none of the whole person. So there is no whole person, because the former created a medical book, visceral errors; later compliance with the theory, the first loss of the disease, the disease is lost, even if there is an embroidered tiger carving dragons of the pen, cut clouds to make up for the moon's ability, the condition and viscera, never match, this medical path is not a whole person from.

The industry doctor diagnosis, when the first Ming viscera. Tried to read the ancient theory of viscera, and the drawing of the map, the standing language everywhere self-contradictory.

Such as the ancients on the spleen and stomach, ...... its error as such.

Its thesis on the lungs, ...... its error again as it were.

Its on the kidneys, ...... its on kidney errors again, as it were.

Its discussion of the liver, ...... on the division of the liver into left and right, is again as erroneous as it is.

Its theory of the heart, ...... its theory of the heart is so ambiguous.

Its theory of stomach, ...... is really a thousand laughs.

Its about the pericardium, ...... what exactly is the pericardium? What can have as much that!

The theory of San Jiao, more ridiculous. ...... How can the cloud hand nameless finger of the meridian, is the hand Shaoyang Sanjiao meridian also?

Among them, there are self-contradictory, there are later refuted but not when. In short, when the source is germanium, all considerations are lost.

Unfortunately, Wang Qingren was born in a wrong era, an era of "Confucianism first". "Confucianism" emphasizes the importance of the ruler, the minister, the father, the son, and the ancient teacher. A lot of failed scholars who failed in the imperial examinations, mixed with the name of "good doctor" to support their families. "Move the yin and yang and the five elements, with the rules of the Ling Su typhoid, using medicine as if using soldiers, prescribing and arranging the battlefield, chest swinging." As long as the ancient practice of medicine, even if the cure can not cure the disease, to cure people to death, but also "people have misfortune, destiny is determined by God", is not the doctor's responsibility?

To be reasonable, it's Wang Qingren's fucking fault for putting this scientist, who actually possessed the heart of a healer and parent, in the Qing Dynasty. "Destroying the ancestral system", "not measuring himself", "madman", "the more you change, the more wrong you get". "terrible poison", "teaching people to learn medicine on a killing field in a pile of rotten bones", "deviant and perverse doctrines", "riding on the saints ", "claptrap for the limelight" ......

Under the vicious attack of the "Confucian doctors", Wang Qingren died of depression in the second year after the publication of The Correction of Errors in the Medical Forest.

Until today, the father of Chinese medicine is still Hua Tuo; until today, Chinese medicine practitioners still speak from the "classics"; until today, the perspective eye magpie has been removed from the history textbooks and still caused such a big reaction ......

Wang Qingren did not become the "father of Chinese medicine", is the sorrow of Chinese medicine, is the sorrow of Chinese science.

Western medicine has surpassed the level of the previous generation at a huge cost, and that cost is human life. Behind a great research result there is no telling how many failures have been experienced, and failure comes at a price, with some scientists not hesitating to take their own lives as research subjects. There is also a related compensation for the death of a person. And Chinese medicine? All failures are quacks harming people, I'm not good because my level has not yet reached the grade of my ancestors, my ancestors are the cure for the end of the disease, some people did not get sick are his credit. So the progress of Chinese medicine is to keep people from getting sick, it is invisible. And the progress of Western medicine is to cure diseases, which is visible.

I am not a medical practitioner, I do not know how to compare, the only common point is to cure diseases and save people. Western medicine can cure diseases, Chinese medicine can also cure diseases, and the history of Chinese medicine is much longer than that of Western medicine. Now not only Japan and South Korea in the registration of Chinese medicine formulas, Europe and the United States are also following closely, it is said that now there are more than 900 kinds of Chinese medicine formulas have been applied for patents abroad, if the future to reach more than 9,000 kinds of, or even more, then by then the people of the country would like to see a traditional Chinese medicine, with traditional Chinese medicine will have to each formula first to someone else a royalty, or else infringement. Some black Chinese medicine this time can be happy it, your purpose has been achieved, the task is completed, can be to the master place to receive money. Foreigners may not be in the hands of your theory, anyway, they do not understand, as long as it is useful on the line, can cure the disease to make money is the hard truth, the Chinese have been used for thousands of years, the practice is the best verification, since tens of thousands of hundreds of millions of people have proved to be effective, but also need what data to prove that it is not redundant. And some of our countrymen are still using Western medicine data standards applied to Chinese medicine, is a bit ridiculous, and even stupid. When the Chinese medicine formulas have become foreign patents, others in turn ridicule the Chinese people are how stupid, really hopeless!

Ancient Chinese and Western doctors had similar knowledge of medicine during the same period of time! Hippocrates' "four liquids theory" and Chinese medicine's "yin-yang and five elements theory" are similar! The balance of the four liquids is the balance of the five elements of yin and yang! Four liquid theory: 80% of the human body is liquid, the body of various nutrients in the liver produced by a variety of liquids known as body fluids, divided into bile, blood, mucus and black bile four. They are throughout life, naturally occurring in the body, and play a large role in health and disease. They are constantly consumed and produced in the body, maintaining a certain state of balance. The balance between the four body fluids is relative, and the opposition (contradiction) between the properties is absolute. The four body fluids are categorized into two main groups: normal body fluids and abnormal body fluids.

Daily said these a bit chilling, Chinese medicine Hua Tuo thousands of years ago had bold ideas. Cranial opening, hemp Fu San, why did not succeed anti-killed? This can be seen in the thinking of a ruler at that time, under the influence of this atmosphere who still has that god doctor dare to show his head? If you show your head, you will be beheaded. In this way, generation after generation, from generation to generation, only they themselves know that they appreciate and use their own skills. After the decline of the Qing Dynasty, Western medicine was introduced. Western medicine was foreign and came with knives and axes as soon as it entered the door. The Chinese saw something new and thought God had come. Everything was taught. So to the Western medicine to leave enough space and conditions to do what they want to do, what drug experiments, abdomen experiment, anesthesia experiments, everything. Chinese people think that people are brilliant, give you two shots of antibiotics for colds and flu feel ting pain. On the bad doctor, in the final analysis, because since the unintelligent only to Western medicine as the pro-father.

I believe that although modern Chinese medicine practitioners do not have the medical skills of Hua Tuo, there are a lot of miraculous doctors who can afford to do so. I am only afraid that if we follow the old path of Hua Tuo, what should be protected will not be, and instead, it will bring about misfortune, and who can take care of who in this era? Who can care about who in this era? Peace and quiet is blessing.