If a piece of clothing immediately feels warm on the body in winter, can you say that it is a pseudo-clothing? If pseudo-clothing works better than real clothing, is real clothing pseudo-clothing, or is pseudo-clothing real clothing?

Why do we have to take the shoes of Westerners and put them on the feet of Easterners and then say that the feet of Easterners are not feet? Is this a matter of standard or position? In my opinion, it is both.

Most of those who doubt the scientific nature of Chinese medicine are those who have been brainwashed by Western medicine or the West, or those who do not understand what Chinese medicine is.

There is a modern saying that a foreign monk can read scriptures. （Should science be foreign? Let it crush the true knowledge and true science of Chinese medicine and traditional Chinese medicine, and the science that it is, that is, the working people's knowledge of things. What kind of pseudo-science is it? True knowledge is true.

The theoretical system of Chinese medicine is a dynamic model of human physiology and pathology constructed on the basis of accumulated experience, which has nothing to do with real anatomy and is far removed from modern scientific cognition. Today, when science is flourishing, in the eyes of ordinary people, TCM is an oriental cognitive system, another way to recognize nature.

The ancients did not have advanced instruments or the scientific knowledge of today, and much of their thinking came from their observation of social and human relationships, as well as from their observation and understanding of nature. At a certain level, the laws of nature are universally correct and universal, such as "healing the sick" and "governing the country" can be compared. The theory of Chinese medicine has been practiced repeatedly for thousands of years, forming a transcendent science with a deep cultural heritage, combined with a perfect art.

The idea of Chinese medicine has penetrated into every aspect of Chinese people, from skin to muscle to bone, and there is also a lot of Chinese medicine in our language, such as "timid as a mouse", "distracted", "big temper In our language, there is also a lot of Chinese medicine, such as "timid as a mouse", "upset", "big temper" and so on. Therefore, the heavy cultural heritage of Chinese medicine is self-evident. The treatment of Chinese medicine is very artistic, unlike Western medicine, which goes straight to the heart of the matter, but emphasizes on techniques and strategies to arrange troops and formations to achieve the purpose of treatment at the least cost, and treats treatment of diseases as an art in pursuit of perfection, so as to make the process of treatment as good as it can be.

Everything in the world is "real and imaginary" coexistence, inseparable, such as: material and space and time, politics and economy, interpersonal relationships and human individuals, the human body and meridians, "virtual" to create the "real" gap, "virtual", "real" can move, so "virtual" is the source of power, master "virtual" is the source of power, master "virtual", "real" can move, so "virtual" is the source of power. "of the fall, there is" false ", then" real "can move, so" false "is the source of power, master" false Mastering the law of "virtual", can control the "real" in the "palm of your hand", this is the most true and rationale! Therefore, Chinese medicine is the art of the best and the most beautiful, and it is also the science of the transcendent.

Personally, I feel that Chinese medicine is not a pseudo-science.

Traditional Chinese medicine is the original knowledge system of medical science in China, and is an indispensable part of the medical and health care endeavors with Chinese characteristics and the enhancement of China's cultural soft power. Spreading the science and culture of Chinese medicine can bring more medical options and hope for life to mankind, and is conducive to the transmission of the excellent traditional Chinese culture from generation to generation, expanding the influence of Chinese culture in the international arena.

To evaluate the value of the existence of Chinese medicine, the most important premise is "whether there are curative effects and where the curative effects lie." If Chinese medicine has no curative effect in treating diseases, or if it has curative effect but no clinical advantage, it will certainly die out and cease to exist.

For Chinese medicine, it has this clearly prioritized advantage.

First of all, it is the theoretical advantage that Chinese medicine recognizes the complex and changing physiological and pathological conditions of the human body through the phenomena manifested by the human body, and grasps the essence and laws of the human body from the macro level of attributes and relationships.

Secondly, it is the theoretical advantage of responding to all changes. No matter how complex the pathogenic factors and lesions, clinically there are always cold or hot, false or real and other attributes, which is enough to constitute the basis of diagnosis and treatment of Chinese medicine.

In addition, Chinese medicine also has certain advantages in the treatment, Chinese medicine in the treatment of "people" as the center, rather than "disease" as the center, for each patient's age, gender, clinical manifestations, course of the disease, etc., to take a targeted and strong personalized treatment.

Finally, it is the advantage of health care to prevent diseases before they occur. "The upper doctor treats the disease before it occurs, the middle doctor treats his own disease, and the lower doctor treats the big disease." "Cure the disease before it occurs" health care to prevent the disease before it occurs, not only can reduce the pain of the disease, but also to avoid the medical expenses arising from the disease.

"Friends, do you now think Chinese medicine is still a pseudoscience!"

It is 100% "pseudo-science"! For Westerners, Chinese writing is too esoteric, so how can they really understand the esoteric theories of Chinese medicine? So if they can't understand it, I don't recognize it as a pseudo-science.

China is the oldest country, up and down 5,000 years of civilization has never been calm, and China's population, whether in ancient times, or now stand at the pinnacle of the world. It has to be recognized that the absolute effectiveness of Chinese medicine, foreign "Western medicine" is science, but how many almost extinct infectious diseases they have endured? ...

In my personal perception, Chinese medicine is first of all a great theory! Chinese medicine is to balance the patient's body lesions, conditioning and treatment to achieve the purpose of curing the sick and saving lives, everything in the world that is poison and medicine, there is nothing unavailable! What is Western medicine? It is only a kind of speed to achieve the patient's treatment of lesions of a "means". Because this means of treatment, often have the effect of rapid relief of pain, so more and more accepted and understood by ordinary people, into a so-called science.

In fact, science itself is a joke! This is because people always consider what can be figured out as science, and what is not figured out is always being studied... Ordinary people may not care about this, while smart people and people with an agenda will always find a reason to deny it in order to "save face" and profit.

Therefore, I say that Chinese medicine is a "pseudo-science", but Chinese medicine is definitely a great theory to change the medical changes! Whether it is Chinese herbs, or Western chemical agents, in fact, these Chinese medicine theory in the utilization of a small part and carry on!

Chinese medicine must be unscientific because the name Chinese medicine does not know the name taken by that country. We Huaxia China only have Han medicine, Tibetan medicine, Miao medicine ....... We China does not have the name of Chinese medicine, only the classification of upper medicine, Chinese medicine and lower medicine. The upper doctor treats the last disease; the Chinese doctor treats the desire disease; the lower doctor treats the already disease. Ancient people have "on the medical country, Chinese medicine, medical people, under the medical disease," said, to date, there is no explanation in place, especially in the modern Western medicine today, it seems that only Western medicine is science.

Now Lower Lower Medicine is Western Medicine. Lower lower medicine is further divided into upper medicine Chinese medicine lower medicine. Lower medicine is based on modern science, modern scientific experiments, if you want to get significant experimental data, the variables must be limited to a small range, and the smaller the range of data will be more accurate, which leads to the disease was more and more subdivided into finer and finer. Correspondingly, the higher the level of the hospital, the more subdivided the departments are.

In this mechanism, the division of diseases is based on the exhaustive method, i.e., more and more detailed and infinitely subdivided, fragmenting the human body as a whole in the form of disease.

This contradicts the fact that the human body is a multivariate, giant system. This has led to a serious phenomenon of paying for the role of lower medicine and losing sight of the other side of the coin. There is a saying that "one-third of the patients are scared to death, one-third are cured to death, and only one-third are really sick to death." In this way, the hit rate of Western medicine is only one-third.

The greatest contradiction in the lower medicine is the contradiction between diseases being subdivided and the wholeness of the human body.

Lower medicine also has some balance indicators, such as blood sugar, blood fat, etc., but compared with the human body balance regulation system, it is like a drop in the bucket. The reason why western medicine is called under medicine is because it is so far away from the human body balance regulation.

Lower medicine also has specialties: surgery and emergencies, antibiotics and vaccines and testing techniques.

Lower medicine is directed at the human body, and as such, it must look at the human body as a whole, and must make the goal of balanced regulation of the human body the sole goal of medicine.

Happily, modern science has opened up research in this area, such as "good sleep can make stem cells stay young", "sleep can repair DNA damage", etc., and future research will inevitably turn more and more to the direction of the human body balance regulation.

Now the lower lower medicine of the upper middle and lower Western medicine as a discipline based on modern science will certainly be based on the development of modern science, from the exhaustive method, fragmentation to the direction of normalization and wholeness. Because only in this way, Western medicine can return to the right path.

The integration of the three doctors is to take the upper medicine as the big framework, and the various diseases of Chinese medicine and lower medicine take their respective positions under the big framework of the balance regulation of the human body, so as to ultimately realize the normalization of medicine and the maximization of the balance regulation ability.

Western medicine in the process of integration of the three medical professions, the holistic principles of upper medicine and lower

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Medical surgery and emergencies, antibiotics and vaccines and testing techniques will be preserved. Western science is all about carving a boat out of something substantial. It took the US 200 years to find the meridians of Chinese medicine, and they used to deny them. The qi of Chinese medicine should never they can not find, they are using rats also dead people to find substance, people die which have qi?

Of course it is. This should not be much of a controversial issue, but there has been a lot of talk about such topics, so it is clear that there are not a few people who have misconceptions about science and Chinese medicine.

When it comes to science, it's easy to think of all kinds of sophisticated instruments or all kinds of unintelligible formulas, which is actually not the real connotation of science.

Science has traveled hundreds of years since its inception and is becoming more and more sophisticated. In brief.Science is the practical method by which mankind understands the universe. So the concept of science is actually very broad and not just limited to mathematics, science and chemistry.

Medicine itself is within the realm of science and is an applied science - but this refers to Western medicine, not Chinese medicine.In other words: Western medicine belongs to science, Chinese medicine does not.

Further:(wikipedia definition) Science is an ordered system of knowledge based on testable explanations and predictions of the form, organization, etc. of objective things, knowledge that has been systematized and formulated.

It is easy to see from this definition that what is called science must have at least two of the following characteristics at the same time:

I. Testability.

Second, a theoretical system should be developed.

I.e., science is to be systematic and formulaic in character.

Let's look at them separately:

No. 1. Testability.

It can also be understood as repeatability, that is, a thing can be verified as correct by repeated experiments. Chinese medicine does not have this, or "does not have it all".

Chinese medicine emphasizes the balance of yin and yang, the balance of birth and birth control, man and nature, and the use of the right medicine for the right disease. The same disease in Chinese medicine is likely to be different, so Chinese medicine is prone to two phenomena: the same symptoms, different doctors may have different diagnostic conclusions; the same symptoms, even if the same doctor may also be different prescriptions.

Western medicine is generally not concerned with the balance of yin and yang and so on, they are more concerned with the treatment of symptoms. However, the "symptoms" of Western medicine are the symptoms, while the "symptoms" of Chinese medicine are the symptoms. This is completely different. Western medicine focuses on the symptoms, while Chinese medicine focuses on the internal causes.

So this leads to: for the same symptoms, Western medicine tends to be the same treatment; but Chinese medicine, as mentioned above, can be a thousand ways.

Chinese and Western medicine once did a PK's, can't remember the exact data too well - here is just discussing the matter, so the data doesn't matter, if you are interested, you can search by yourself!(Probably not searchable though, it's something that's happened in the last couple years, and as far as I know the results of this PK were not publicized, so it's not a good guess as to why. As far as I know, the result of this PK was not publicized. In fact, this is not the first time that Chinese and Western medicine PK, there are several times on the Internet can be found)。The general idea is that Chinese and Western medical practitioners each have 1,000 patients with almost the same symptoms, and while Western medical practitioners cured 300 people with one prescription, Chinese medical practitioners cured 800 people with nearly 100 prescriptions.

So who is more convincing?

Chinese medicine?

Wrong, it's Western medicine.

Western medicine has a cure rate of about 30% for a single formula, but Chinese medicine doesn't even average more than 5% for a single formula - it's a logical algorithm on the overall big data.

This is science, it wants data, it wants verifiability.

Many TCM prescriptions target individual cases, so they are often not verifiable, to tell a short story:

In short, someone got a rather strange disease: often inexplicably upset stomach, but has not been able to cure. After a few turns to find an old Chinese medicine, gave him a strange prescription - this prescription even has arsenic!

It is common knowledge that arsenic is poisonous, so the family reduced the amount of arsenic again and again when the medicine was taken. As a result, the patient rolled on the ground in pain after taking the medicine, and finally the patient hung up.

The family took the old Chinese doctor to court, and the old Chinese doctor said it was because the family had changed the prescription without authorization. Because the patient had once eaten chicken containing centipede eggs, three centipedes were born in the patient's stomach. The arsenic in the prescription was for poisoning the centipedes, which was just enough, but the family members reduced the amount of arsenic, which caused the centipedes to struggle half-dead in their stomachs, and so led to the patient's death.

This was so unbelievable that the judge decided to open the patient's stomach on the spot to verify it, and then the patient did have three centipedes in his stomach.

Of course this is just a story, and from a scientific point of view the probability is that it should be fictionalized. However, there are many similar real-life examples in Chinese medicine, and this story just highlights it. This reflects one of the characteristics of Chinese medicine: very often Chinese medicine practitioners prescribe medicines for individual and internal causes (the proportion of proprietary Chinese medicines is too small to be discussed).

So whether or not the formula cured the disease, it is likely not to be reproducibly verifiable.

Some people may say, wasn't the story above proved that there were indeed three centipedes in the stomach? It is not true that there were centipedes, but this only proves that the doctor's diagnosis was correct, but it does not prove whether or not this formula can really cure this disease.

On the other hand, even if the family followed the doctor's instructions and finally cured the patient, there was still no way to prove that the formula could cure the disease. For one thing, it was not very easy to find someone who also had an upset stomach because of a centipede in their stomach, and for another, even if there was such a second person, the formula would probably be changed again depending on the length of time it took to develop the disease or the patient's physical condition - after all, at least centipedes weren't necessarily the same size, and the size of the meal needed to be taken into account.

So from a scientific point of view, this formula of the old Chinese doctor is almost impossible to repeat the verification, which means that this formula has no scientific validity.

There are many such similar cases within Chinese medicine, especially some of the so-called ancestral skills or secret recipes, which from a scientific point of view seem to be simply nonsense.

Enough said, to summarize:Conclusion 1. Many prescriptions in TCM are not reproducibly verifiable - this is not characteristic of science.

2nd, a theoretical system should be developed.

Does Chinese medicine have a theoretical system? Yes.

But the theoretical system of Chinese medicine itself is not recognized by science, what with its yin and yang, acupoints, meridians, external evils, and so on, all these things are almost completely unprovable from a scientific point of view.

Nowadays, the anatomy is accurate to the cellular tissue, accurate to the capillaries is completely no problem, but froze to find any acupuncture points and meridians.

So as comfortable as Chinese massage may be, and as healing as acupuncture may be, it's still not science.

So from a scientific point of view:Conclusion 2: The theoretical system of Chinese medicine is itself based on an unscientific foundation and is certainly not scientifically acceptable.

3rd, be systematic and formulaic.

This one is a synthesis of the two points above and says the same thing, so here's a summary rather than a third point that needs to be argued.

The so-called systematic and formulaic simply means that there should be a set of mathematical and scientific models in line with scientific theories, and to put it bluntly, there should be a theoretical system and reproducibility.

Why do you get the disease and why do you treat it this way, this is the theoretical system; to prescribe this medicine when you have this symptom, this is formulaic.

However, the theory of Chinese medicine itself is not in line with science, and the prescription of Chinese medicine does not have a formulaic character, so Chinese medicine is not scientific and Western medicine is scientific.

So, to say whether Chinese medicine can cure diseases? Of course it can. But not science? No, it's not.

It is true that the Chinese medicine system is not in accordance with science, and this is actually not something that can be earned at the moment. If one has to speak in terms of science, of course, it can only be described as pseudoscience for the time being.

But what does that mean?

Science is a practical method for human beings to understand the universe, which is like a child growing up slowly, it takes a process for him to understand the world.

With the development of science, many things have been confirmed by science, and that is certainly science. But is something that cannot be proven by science or is not yet proven for the time being necessarily pseudoscience?

This in itself is an unscientific logic ......

The simple answer is that the state has introduced relevant laws to clarify its status.

The implementation of the Chinese Medicine Law is enough to prove everything, the preamble of the Chinese Medicine Law of China is as follows The Chinese Medicine Law of the People's Republic of China is a method formulated for the inheritance and promotion of Chinese medicine, safeguarding and promoting the development of the cause of traditional Chinese medicine, and protecting the health of the people. It was issued by the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress on December 25, 2016, and came into force on July 1, 2017.

The laws and regulations introduced by the state must have been scientifically proven.

Is Chinese medicine a pseudo-science? To do anything in line with the logical laws of things themselves, this is the principle that must be followed in Chinese medicine, which serves to standardize thought, guide action, and provide a basis for thought . Behavior. Activity to establish "rules", reflecting the complete unity of thought and existence. The advancement of thought and behavior must be in accordance with the rules, people's various activities, must abide by the rules of the respective game. Study. Research. Application of Chinese medicine is no exception. The world is the sum of facts, not the sum of things. Chinese medicine studies people who are sick, not just people who are sick, and human-centeredness is the core principle of Chinese medicine. Everything can not be separated from its "reason", centered on the "reason", everything is in the center. Connecting 'reason' and 'things' is the link between people, things with things, things blend, that is, the truth. Chinese medicine belongs to the category of complex scientific system, with the dual attributes of science and humanities, encompassing many features of soft science and hard science. In a nutshell, Chinese medicine has a unique theoretical system, ideological methods, diagnostic and therapeutic techniques and excellent clinical efficacy with the essential attributes of hard sciences: the great medical sincerity. Great medical practice. The five precepts and ten essentials, the precious treatment process emphasizes the correct handling of the doctor-patient relationship of the sparse five faults, the four faults, no loss of human feelings, the process of healing 'medicine such as the use of military' and so on, and all reflect its distinctive features of the soft sciences, is an organic combination of science and humanities, is a concentrated embodiment of the science of things. It is the organic combination of science and humanities, which is the concentration of the science of matter. As academician Wang Yongyan said: science lays the foundation for humanities, and humanities navigates for science, which is the essence of the discipline of traditional Chinese medicine. Liang Qichao pointed out: Westerners pay attention to the relationship between people and things, so physics is very developed: Chinese people pay attention to the relationship between people and people, so the science of facts is very developed, which is the different characteristics of Chinese and Westerners. This is a different characteristic between Chinese and Westerners. This is especially prominent in Chinese medicine, which emphasizes on people but not on diseases, and focuses on preventing and treating diseases: the facts are coherent, and the laws and regulations are well harmonized. It advocates three parts treatment and seven parts nourishment: it advocates that the treatment of disease focuses on the treatment of the heart, and the treatment of the heart lies in the cultivation of the body and the nourishment of the mind, and the cultivation of the mind is based on tranquility. When a superior scholar hears the Way, he acts diligently; when a middle-ranking scholar hears the Way, if he dies, if he survives; when an inferior scholar hears the Way, he laughs at it. If you don't laugh, it's not enough for the Tao. The theory of Chinese medicine is so subtle that not everyone can understand it...

Certain theories of Chinese medicine are indeed summaries of practical experience. For example, Chinese medicine practitioners believe that radish smoothes the flow of qi, winter melon is diuretic, and so on, and all these are objective facts and valuable experience.

But the vast majority of Chinese medicine theories, such as what tiger bone bone, bear bile bile, red dates to nourish blood, black beans to nourish the kidneys, leeches to activate the blood, andrographis paniculata to open up the network, the rice Conger ear, the bat excrement to brighten the eyes and other traditional Chinese medicine theories, such as what "the liver stores the blood and opens the orifices of the eyes," "the kidneys store the essence of the liver to nourish liver and blood "Chinese medicine diagnostic theories, are Chinese medicine on the basis of yin and yang and five elements, no factual basis and no logical nonsense.

One of the things that Chinese medicine fans often say is that others do not understand Chinese medicine.

Which Chinese medicine powder understand? Who knows who can explain to me why black beans are good for the kidneys, but soybeans, mung beans, lentils and peas are not good for the kidneys? Why is it that bat shit is good for the eyes, but dog shit, cow shit, pig shit, horse shit, sparrow shit, human shit, goat shit, pigeon shit, is not good for the eyes? Why does the kidney store essence to nourish the liver and blood, but not the liver store essence to nourish the kidney and blood?

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I find that when Chinese medicine practitioners talk about Chinese medicine, they always talk about its "advanced" concepts.

There are many "concepts" in Chinese medicine, and you cannot say that they are not true. For example, the "unity of man and heaven" emphasizes that human physiological activities must be coordinated with the environment; for example, the "unity of mind and body" emphasizes the coordination of physiological and psychological factors. For example, the "holistic view" of the human body as a whole to look at, it is believed that the reason why people get sick, because of foreign diseases and evils in the human body, destroying the balance of yin and yang in the human body, so that the internal organs dysfunction, qi and blood dysfunction caused by. For example, Chinese medicine treatment of disease pay attention to support the positive and eliminate evil, leveling yin and yang, cold hot, hot cold, solid diarrhea, false complementary, the knot should be scattered, escape should be labor, and ultimately the yin and yang since the harmonization of the five organs and five elements, the disease naturally well.

These concepts have some truth, but these are only a "concept" only, you must convert the big truth into small truths, the concept into something operable, in order to make it work. Just like the slogan "serve the people" there is nothing wrong, the key is the operation of the policy level, there is no operational level of things, but it is "correct nonsense" only.

However, in the process of practical application, do Chinese medicine practitioners have the correct theories and methods to guide them to realize these seemingly correct truths and concepts?

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Of course a cold person should be hot, of course a hot person should be cold, of course a solid person should be diarrhea, of course a deficient person should be tonic, this is the reasoning that a three year old child understands, but how does a Chinese medicine practitioner determine whether a person is hot, cold, solid or deficient? But how does a Chinese medicine practitioner determine whether a person is hot, cold, solid or deficient? Or how does a Chinese medicine practitioner know whether a person is suffering from a certain disease because he is cold, hot, solid or deficient?

Some people have to say, Chinese medicine has its own theory ah, take the cold and heat syndrome: floating tight pulse is cold, floating number of pulse is hot; tongue white is cold, tongue yellow is hot; cough, sputum thin white is cold lungs, sputum viscous yellow is lungs hot ...

The crux of the matter is that, compared to the rigorous logical system of modern medical science, these claims in Chinese medicine are almost entirely subjective, with no factual basis and no logic to speak of. Why is white tongue coating cold and yellow hot? Why is phlegm white is cold and yellow is hot? Chinese medicine can neither prove these claims theoretically nor find an objective basis for these claims in practice.

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An example, a child with high fever, coughing, let modern medicine diagnosis: ask, cough for several days; try the temperature, fever; look at the tonsils, red, swollen and inflamed; auscultation, there are small vesicular sounds; routine blood tests, white blood cells, neutrophils high or mycoplasma-positive; take a film of the lungs, there is a shadow, part of the density increases, the border is not clear, and so on. From this, we can basically conclude that it is pediatric pneumonia.

Modern medicine is based on facts, and each of these steps has been rigorously scientifically proven. Why do you cough when you have pneumonia? Why do you have a fever? Why are the tonsils red and swollen? Why is there a blistering sound on auscultation? Why are the white blood cells elevated? Why are there shadows on the lungs? What is the mechanism of action of drugs in the human body after taking medicines or injections? Modern medicine, even if any of the regular tertiary hospital internal medicine doctor can give you a clear explanation.

How about letting a Chinese medicine practitioner make a diagnosis? Ask, you these days is not blowing cold wind cold, cut the pulse, look at the tongue, ah ah ah ah, not good ah, you this is the wind and cold evil invasion of the lungs, the lungs are not clear and clean, the evil gathered in the chest and diaphragm ah. Come on, let the old man to give you a few pairs of drugs to regulate, clearing heat and detoxification, declaring the lungs to lower the reversal, coughing and expectorant ...... waiting for him to regulate a few days, the child lungs are also finished.

What does "cold" look like and how does it invade the body, and what is "evil" and how does it gather in the chest and diaphragm? No Chinese medicine practitioner can explain this clearly. A large number of Chinese medicines in a pot, boiled a big bowl, drink it down, the drugs in the human body is how to clear the heat, how to detoxify, how to stop the cough, how to resolve the phlegm, which ingredients play a role, what is the principle? No Chinese medicine practitioner can say.

In the face of such questioning, Chinese medicine practitioners will only say perfunctorily that this is how it has been handed down from the ancestors or that this is what is written in the Chinese medicine books, and that you do not need to know why, but only need to memorize it.

Why do Chinese medicine practitioners say so? Because these theories were originally the concoctions of the ancients, and I am afraid that even the first person who said and wrote these words could not explain them clearly, so how can you expect the Chinese medicine practitioners, who have memorized these theories, to give you a clear picture of what is going on?

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When it is said that the theories of Chinese medicine are imaginary, many fans of Chinese medicine will certainly be reluctant to do so, for they will argue that Chinese medicine has a history of several thousand years and that Chinese medicine is in fact empirical medicine.

As you know, modern medicine (Western medicine) is based on modern science, which includes biology, chemistry, physics, microbiology, anatomy, cytology, pathology, immunology, pharmacology and so on. Only medicine based on science can be called scientific medicine.

The metaphysical theory of Chinese medicine, which originated from the Yin-Yang and the Five Elements, is obviously not a scientific theory. In spite of this, many people firmly believe that Chinese medicine is a valuable wealth accumulated by the Chinese people over thousands of years of practice, and that it is an empirical medicine.

It is true that Chinese medicine was initially derived from the practical experience of the ancients, such as taking some herbs to alleviate the symptoms of an illness; for example, the symptoms of an illness will be alleviated by pressing there. These are all objective facts.

But then what happened? By the I Ching gossip, yin and yang five elements and other traditionalized influence, Chinese medicine in which added more and more subjective conjecture. If the radish to smooth the qi, winter melon diuretic, etc. is by taste, by experience, then what the tiger bone bone, bear bile gallbladder, red jujube blood, black beans to tonify the kidneys, leeches to activate the blood, pangshan armor to open up the network, rice, bat excrement, and so on, and so on, I do not believe that these things can also be "tasted" or through the experience of the summing up of it.

Did some blind man eat bat shit and regain his sight? Or are rice-eaters more sensitive than bun-eaters?

It is not so bad to talk about single-flavored medicines, but there are also complicated combinations of the ruler, ministers and auxiliaries, and I once saw a formula with more than 60 flavors of medicines. We can do the math ourselves. If we rely on experience and the exhaustive method to try one by one, how many combinations are there? Is it enough to kill 7 billion people in the world?

Without talking about Chinese medicine, let us talk about the diagnostic theory of Chinese medicine. According to Chinese medicine, the liver belongs to wood, the heart belongs to fire, the spleen belongs to earth, the lungs belong to gold and the kidneys belong to water. According to the five elements, wood begets fire, fire begets earth, earth begets gold, gold begets water and water begets wood; wood begets earth, earth begets water, water begets fire, fire begets gold and gold begets wood. The relationship between the five organs should be as follows: Liver begets Heart, Heart begets Spleen, Spleen begets Lung, Lung begets Kidney, Kidney begets Liver; Kidney begets Heart, Heart begets Lung, Lung begets Liver, Liver begets Spleen, Spleen begets Kidney. (Sheng means nourishing and supporting, and Ke means inhibiting and restraining.)

May I ask what this theory is based on? Based on what experience is it summarized? If the doctrine of yin and yang and five elements can barely be considered a simple philosophical theory of ancient times, then the Chinese medicine without scientific basis forcibly for the five organs to give five attributes, and then according to the relationship between the five elements of the five elements of the five elements of the five organs with each other is a complete and utter superstition.

In fact, most of the concepts and statements of Chinese medicine have no empirical basis at all. Concepts such as sun, taiyin, yangming, syncope, shaoyang, shaoyin, and so on, do not exist in the empirical world. For example, the "five tastes" of pungency, sweetness, bitterness, saltiness, and sourness, and the "four qi" of cold, heat, warmth, and coolness appear to be very empirical on the surface, but in fact they cannot be analyzed in the empirical world.

So it is true that a small part of TCM theories are summaries of experience, but most of them are just conjectures with no scientific basis.

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Yin and Yang, Chinese medicine theory, are theoretically self-consistent, practically inoperative, because these theories do not have any factual basis, and even more illogical, and can not withstand rigorous practical test, and therefore can only take the analogy, appendage, and other methods to explain everything, and the result is that the problem is more and more, and at the end of the whole can not understand, only rote memorization.

As for which one to believe when the reader encounters different points of view in different books, it is not clear.

For example, according to the definition of the Chinese Medicine Law, Chinese medicine is a collective term for the traditional medicine of all ethnic groups in China. Let me ask you, the theories of traditional medicine of the Han, Mongolian and Tibetan ethnic groups are different, and many of them are contradictory to each other, so who should we listen to? What is the standard?

Many Chinese medicine fans often complain that anti-Chinese medicine people use the standards of modern medicine (Western medicine) to demand Chinese medicine, which is not a system at all.

Non-also non-also, whether it is Chinese medicine, Western medicine, Tibetan medicine, Mongolian medicine, or other Indian medicine, Egyptian medicine, regardless of whether you rely on the active ingredients or rely on the yin-yang, five elements of the I Ching bagua to cure, as long as it is a medical science, we must follow a standard, that is, based on the facts, resolutely do not allow any conjecture, which should be the standard of all medical science.

The theory of Chinese medicine, however, is just under the banner of "unity of heaven and man", "unity of mind and body", "holistic view" and so on, on the basis of yin and yang and the five elements, the use of analogical methods of taking images, random imagination The thing that comes out.

If we use imaginary theories to guide our practice, how can we realize the seemingly correct concepts and theories such as "yang is born and yin grows, yin and yang are in harmony, the five organs are harmonized, and the disease is naturally cured"?

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This article is excerpted from my article "Honor Science, Eliminate Superstition; Cherish Your Health, Stay Away from Chinese Medicine".

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