The respect for old Chinese medicine is just a remarkable sign of the slow accumulation of knowledge in ancient times. In the ancient environment, respect for the elderly and the importance of traditional experience is very useful, after all, many things in this world are in the cycle, life experience is invaluable to deal with possible unexpected disasters, can allow people to avoid some of the dangers, for some of the possible time to prepare in advance.

However, we should note that many direct experience may not be reliable, for example, in traditional Chinese medicine, there are many claims are actually not reliable, and even quite harmful. For example, pregnant women are not allowed to take a bath or even to eat salt during their menstruation, and these bad habits were actually the cause of many deaths of pregnant women in ancient times. The main reason for the formation of these bad habits may be that the ancients observed a correlation between certain events and phenomena, but this correlation does not have a direct cause and effect relationship. (For example, if a certain child becomes a bad person, he must have been born by his mother, it does not mean that a child born by his mother will become a bad person, hehehe)

In ancient times, the formation of worship of the old Chinese medicine, worship of the experience of the old life is understandable, because the accumulation of knowledge at that time is very slow, and even the inheritance is very difficult, the family has an old man, is the only treasure, if you have a few ancestral books in your home, that may be your family's social status are not the same.

But with the rapid increase in the accumulation of knowledge in modern society, we have developed a progressive mindset. This is the time when we reveal what are the reasons for the usefulness of many traditional experiences and which ones are actually not only useless, but also very harmful. This is the time when we realize that everyone needs to be constantly learning in life and work.

Why are there no "old Western doctors"? It is because even old Western medical practitioners need to keep on learning. Many highly respected old specialists still have to keep reading the latest literature to update their knowledge and techniques.

In turn those lousy traditional Chinese medicine practitioners don't become more intelligent just because they are older and probably have more things going on. (To put it mildly, a little twerp who doesn't study hard doesn't get smarter as he gets older, he might just become a big twerp).

In fact, ancient Greek philosophers revealed that many of our immediate impressions may actually be wrong and untrue (see Plato's cave metaphor for this). In order to inquire into truth, we need to welcome the criticism of others, while remaining calm about possible errors in our own intellectual insights. Humility leads to progress, pride to backwardness. Rejecting criticism is the worst kind of pride.

In the midst of relationships, it may be that as you get older, you become more mellow and adept at dealing with all sorts of people. But the truths of our world, such as the truth of how the human body really works, do not open up to you as you age. In fact, with the proliferation of scammers in our modern society, the older you get, the more you become, the more you are victimized because you are overly conscious of your past experiences. It is just like our blind promotion of Chinese medicine in the midst of institutional education, thus allowing more people to fall into the pit of traditional Chinese medicine. More people are unable to recognize the true nature of Chinese medicine, and even the valuable things in it you are overly mixed with the dregs, and can not be recognized.

Read so much have turned to Chinese medicine, in fact, regardless of Chinese medicine and Western medicine, old means experience, always beneficial. These advantages are reflected in:

Anticipation of the judgment of some conditions: the patient's condition is sometimes changeable, many patients with serious conditions, the old western doctors tend to anticipate before the emergence of complications to give preventive measures, these experience is the accumulation of the experience of touching, and many times it is indeed very accurate.

Holistic concept and the ability to link theory to practice: holistic concept is not the specialty of Chinese medicine, Western medicine also attaches importance to the old Western doctors to understand the patient's condition more comprehensive and more holistic. Reading books and literature to learn new advances is essential for Western doctors, but summarizing clinical practice is also necessary. Older Western doctors are often able to grasp the key points in the intricate clinical signs.

The ability to communicate with family members: While treating patients is an ability, communicating with family members is even more of an art. The rich experience of the old doctors makes them twice as effective in communicating with the families, and at the same time, we have to admit that the families also trust the older doctors and directors more.

I look forward to being corrected on any shortcomings.

To answer this question, it is important to talk about people and diseases. What is a human being? Man is one of the species of nature, just a highly intelligent one, and disease is a natural phenomenon. The complexity of the structure of the human body will not be repeated, but no matter how complex it is, it is composed of the basic elements of nature. Nevertheless, these molecules, which constitute the most highly intelligent beings (animals also have intelligence, even advanced intelligence), are still subject to the laws of nature. Knowledge of the laws of nature takes experience. Disease is again an even more complex phenomenon; with modern medical diagnosis, multiple different diseases may have the same manifestation, while multiple different diseases may exist under the same manifestation. Because of the diversity of genes, the human body individual differences and great, modern science and technology on the understanding of life is still very limited, the current understanding is mostly from the inanimate anatomy and tissue cytology, the living organisms of the electromagnetic, emotional, thinking understanding is very limited, people are not a simple combination of parts on the factory production line. There is a patient's body, you can not be like overhauling the machine like all disassembled to observe, even if disassembled can not observe the process of activity. Therefore, Western medicine also needs to accumulate experience. As an individual, a Western doctor will not be rigid in his thinking, but will continue to learn as medicine advances. Ultimately, the treatment of disease or to return to nature.

The essential difference between TCM and Western medicine determines that the two are different.

Look at what Western doctors can do when they are old? Western medicine class is divided into internal medicine and surgery, surgery, that is, the older or more experienced, after all, the hands of the work can be accumulated.

It's that when you get old, surgery is a very physically demanding endeavor, and it's hard to keep up physically. To many surgeons of Western medicine, their own experience counts as wasted if they don't work as a teacher.

And Western Internal Medicine that's different. Western internal medicine, it's constantly evolving. Everyone is following the guidelines and standards of Western medicine. The technology is constantly being upgraded. Older western internal medicine doctors have experience, but, there's not a lot of advantage in that.

Another Western medicine is constantly being updated. The old western doctor, the medicine of his time or after a decade or so has long been eliminated. Being that he has a lot of experience as well as treatment, it is impossible to accumulate and pass it on.

This is not the case with old Chinese medicine practitioners. The experience of Chinese medicine practitioners is that with more experience, the treatment results become relatively better and better. Therefore, the older a Chinese medicine practitioner gets, the more popular he becomes.

The theories of Chinese medicine from ancient times to the present, the classical texts, and the use of drugs have basically been finalized. What can be upgraded is the clinical experience of each Chinese medicine practitioner.

So even if you all share this underlying theory. The difference in clinical experience also determines the level of many doctors, which varies. Well, the old Chinese medicine practitioners are relatively more experienced and have seen more patients. The technique is also relatively better.

So you see from Chinese and Western. One of the characteristics of each that dictates that the old Chinese doctors of Western medicine are not of much value when they get old

And in the case of Chinese medicine, the older you are, the more popular you are, that's for sure.

Another thing is that people who know Chinese medicine, people who know Chinese medicine, are a little bit better at health care themselves. And also generally, old Chinese medicine practitioners are living it up.

Whether Chinese medicine is useful or not is best demonstrated in their case.

The first group of State Medical Masters, the youngest is 74 years old and the oldest is 93 years old.

This question is addressed in three ways.

The first aspect is that Chinese medicine has old Chinese medicine practitioners while Western medicine does not have any, and this stems from the different origins of Chinese medicine and Western medicine. Chinese medicine has a history of 5,000 years, and it has almost grown up with traditional Chinese culture, so it has a long history and can be said to be a grandfather-level medicine. Modern Western medicine has a history of only three to four hundred years, and it is still a baby-level medicine in terms of history. Therefore, it is not an exaggeration to say that the Chinese medicine at the level of the granddaddy of Chinese medicine is the old Chinese medicine, who let it have a recorded lifespan of more than 2,000 years. It is unspeakable to call doll-level Western medicine old Western medicine.

Secondly, the reason why Chinese medicine is said to be old also lies in the everlasting youthfulness of the medical art. Like Zhang Zhongjing in the Han Dynasty, a formula of cinnamon stick soup and its cinnamon stick soup community was used in the Han Dynasty, the Tang Dynasty, the Song Dynasty, the Yuan, Ming and Qing Dynasties, and is still being used nowadays in China, Japan and Vietnam, is this kind of treatment still not old? Acupuncture and moxibustion have a history of thousands of years, and have been used in the past and will be used in the future, is this not old? Western medicine is not only the formation of a short period of time, that is, the treatment of life is not too long, such as many cephalosporins and some antibiotics, such as gentamicin, lenomycin, etc. Because of the side effects are too large, are gradually withdrawn from the field of medical care, such as antipyretic anakin, the United States and Western Europe has been banned for forty years, only in China, there are still doctors in the treatment of the territory, even if the penicillin and other drugs such as the Western countries have issued a warning that the misuse of drugs will lead to the emergence of bacteria with strong Even drugs like penicillin have been warned in the West that misuse can lead to strong resistance in bacteria and turn them into superbugs, at which point there will be nothing we can do. In this way, from the point of view of medical treatment, it is not too much to say that Chinese medicine is old.

Thirdly, since the core of Chinese medicine lies in dialectics, and the connotation of evidence has the unique personality of specific living organisms, Chinese medicine is in fact individualized medicine under the macro perspective. Speaking of its macro is Chinese medicine will be a disease in the five viscera and six bowels of the blood and fluid to form an ecological community within the interconnected perspective of the problem, said its personality is the treatment of Chinese medicine due to the human condition, due to time, due to place, due to the kind of cold, cold and the bitter cold of the north of the Sebei land and the southeast coast of the hot and humid place of treatment is different, fat and thin people, small people, the old man, strong and weak people with a different method of treatment. And the core of Western medicine can be a cure repeatedly verified, they talk about the disease, a disease of the lock must use a drug, they cure as a large factory assembly line, as long as the disease doctors in line with the symptomatic hair medicine, even if it rises to the law will not be wrong, rise to the science is also flash. From this point of view, even if the Chinese medicine is rich in the face of the complexity of clinical diagnosis will also be walking on thin ice, so there is no accumulation can not be thin hair. And this accumulation is the need for time to accumulate knowledge accumulation quality accumulation and clinical accumulation, in this accumulation as wine the longer the more mellow, which is people realize that ginger is still old and spicy called the reason for the old Chinese medicine. And western medicine as long as ten years of hospital learning can be clinical. Therefore, it is difficult to call the old Western medicine.

Chinese medicine can cure heart disease, why no one mentioned it? Western medicine has gone to the end of the road, in addition to stents, (but also to break the chest and open surgery, it is difficult for good people to live)It's just bypassing what else can be done, and the more you treat it, the worse it gets. Western medicine has only been around for a total of 200 years, while Chinese medicine has been around for thousands of years. So there is no such thing as old Western medicine.

It is not difficult to answer this question.

Compared with Chinese medicine, Western medicine is actually laboratory medicine, in which theories are constructed in the laboratory and treatment experience is also accumulated in the laboratory. Pharmacologists in the laboratory to complete the physical and chemical properties of the drug to determine the work, and then in the use of animal testing to study its pharmacology and toxicology, and finally sent to the clinic using randomized controlled trials to further validate the validation of the drug, after the validation of the use of the medical market is pushed to the medical market.

After the accumulation of theory and experience in the laboratory, Western medicine will teach this laboratory experience to Western medicine clinicians as general education, and the clinicians will just read from the book and treat the patients according to the treatment paths determined by the laboratory. The whole process of Western medicine is a fool's errand, so there is no distinction between Western medicine practitioners of any age, no distinction between old Western medicine practitioners and young Western medicine practitioners, because they are only mechanically applying the results of laboratory research.

Why is there a difference between old and young Chinese medicine practitioners? This is because Chinese medicine is not like Western medicine in which patients are treated mechanically by clinical staff according to the results of laboratory studies, but rather, treatment is prescribed according to the individual constitution of the patient. For every Chinese medicine practitioner, he does not have a well-drafted prescription waiting for him to use when he is faced with any patient. He needs to carry out individualized diagnosis and treatment on the basis of Chinese medicine theories and prescribe effective treatment according to his own knowledge structure and past experience in diagnosis and treatment. Therefore, for the same TCM practitioner, as he grows older and accumulates more experience, his level of clinical efficacy will also progress, which is why the older the TCM practitioner gets, the more likely he is to be trusted by his patients.

However, Chinese medicine is wisdom medicine, and the clinical efficacy of a Chinese medicine practitioner depends on his or her ability to recognize and treat evidence, which in turn depends on the personal image thinking and cognitive ability of the practitioner, as well as on his or her knowledge structure and ability to synthesize and apply knowledge. Therefore, it is not that the older the Chinese medicine practitioner is, the higher the efficacy, but the wiser the practitioner is, the higher the efficacy. Those young Chinese medicine practitioners who have wisdom, their efficacy will greatly exceed that of the old Chinese medicine practitioners.

Western medicine also has, attending physician, chief physician, specialist. Western medicine is not based on old age, but on learning, master's degree, doctor's degree, based on grades, look at papers. Theory plus practice. You have published a thesis in the state periodical and have been recognized by your peers.

I am a traditional Chinese medicine, a couple of neighbors are Western medicine, his toddler diarrhea for 1 week, a week of diarrhea more than a drip, the couple fear extreme fear extreme, the children's grandmother begged me for medical treatment, I only use a small formula of a dose, half a month of diarrhea that stops that healed. World affairs, the world, each with their own life, each with branches, defamation, its heart jealousy, jealousy anger, indignation fire, fire heartbreak, heart injury body, body from the bitter, shall not be counted, people in the world may not be mutually defamatory thin, when mutual coexistence is the basis of the human world.

Western medicine considers superficial problems. Surface problems that change as technology improves. Chinese medicine considers essential problems. Essential problems do not change over time. No matter how technology changes. The human body itself is a system that remains basically unchanged. What changes in life is the context of life. The conditions of life. Not the human body itself. With time. Experience increases. Recognition grows deeper. Therefore: old Chinese medicine is worth money. Old Western medicine is worthless!