Is Chinese medicine scientific?

Is Chinese medicine unscientific?

There's a question I've never understood.

Western medicine is only a few hundred years old.

Didn't the West use herbs to treat diseases hundreds of years ago?

Humans have survived on Earth for tens of thousands of years.

Chinese civilization has been alive and well for 5,000 years.

The reproduction of children and grandchildren, and medical treatment all rely on traditional Chinese medicine.

It has only been a hundred years since Western medicine was introduced to China.

Is Chinese medicine not scientific?

This fight against the Xinguang epidemic has demonstrated the unique efficacy of Chinese medicine.

Is it true that Chinese medicine is not a national treasure.

Please answer the question if you know anything about medicine!

This time, for the treatment of new coronavirus patients, according to the official announcement, the mortality rate of the Western medicine group is ten times higher than that of the Chinese medicine group.

Practice is the only standard to test the truth. Chinese medicine theory comes from practice and is applied in practice, as long as the right medicine is effective. This is the truth, this is the evidence of Chinese medicine science.

The definition of the word "science" comes from Western culture, and we did not have much say in the matter at that time, so we should revise and improve the definition to make it consistent with the condition that practice is the test of truth.

Let's start with an incident I encountered in my clinic.

I am a surgeon, and once a patient in our department developed shoulder pain after surgery because of the long duration of the operation. I remember that day I was on duty and it was already the third day after the operation. The nurse told me that the patient's shoulder started to hurt again, so I gave him a painkilling injection at that time. After five or six hours, the nurse told me that the patient's shoulder was hurting again, and he was shouting at the nurse. I went over to the nurse, and he said, "How do you work as a doctor? I've been in pain for three days now, and all you know is to give him a painkilling injection, and it doesn't seem to be getting any better! I looked at the medical record, there is an orthopedic consultation, so I called to urge the orthopedic surgeon to come and see.

About ten minutes later, the chief of orthopedics came in, asked for a history, checked the body, and just said to check the MRI, and didn't say anything about what could be done to relieve the pain immediately, except for a painkilling injection.

The patients still had strong opinions! There is no other way, reported to the director, the director of the vice president of the Chinese medicine invited over.

I saw the dean swing his arm twice there, and amazingly, the patient's pain eased! The dean then gave him a few more stitches, and ten minutes later the patient was noticeably pain-free.

The dean told the patient: this is the technology passed down from our ancestors, which is not available in the United States! And then there's the fact that I, for one, can only treat your shoulder pain, and you need these doctors to help you with your stomach problems!

Therefore, those of us who study Western medicine actually admire them from the bottom of our hearts for studying Chinese medicine.

Let's go back to the question: is TCM scientific?

The first thing to know is what science is. Science is about logic, science is about evidence.

Let's make a comparison:Physiologically we know that a human being develops from an embryo, the embryo is differentiated from a fertilized egg, and the fertilized egg is formed by the union of a sperm and an egg. This seems logical! It also seems well-documented! In other words, it's very scientific! But why is it so? Why is it that a sperm and an egg combine to form a fertilized egg that can differentiate into an embryo and then develop into a human being? It seems that modern science still has no good explanation, not even at the genetic level, not even at the atomic level.

Because science is always a set of theories based on an unknown, built through observation and verification.

And Chinese medicine believes that the mechanism of pregnancy is: the kidney qi full, the days of maturity, any through the Chongsheng, the exchange of the time, the two essence of the fight, is the fetus pregnancy.

So why would anyone think that the theories of TCM are any less scientific?

He'll say, "Because I don't know and I've never seen kidney qi, ah!

Yeah, they always think that what they can see is science!

So it's not the same from a cognitive standpoint, and on what basis can you dismiss someone else's logic and negate their evidence?

And the world is not always what we see.

So science is always relative, and science is not the science of a particular person or book! Science is spoken of in modern medicine and also in the theory of Chinese medicine!

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Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) is a discipline of experience accumulated through thousands of years of experience in saving lives and helping people!

The word science comes from the West, what is meant by science? Can't find the right word to define it yet, personally I understand it as the rationality in everything.
It is only in the last two hundred years that Western medicine has entered China, and it has been quickly accepted by the Chinese people. Before Western medicine entered China, China relied on traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) to treat the sick and save lives, which is a traditional Chinese medicine that has been proven in practice, hence the name TCM.
Now the major hospitals are equipped with Chinese medicine specialists, or a combination of Chinese and Western medicine, each with their own strengths, there are many Western doctors feel tricky difficult diseases Chinese medicine is a specialty, can say that Chinese medicine is not scientific!

I do not quite understand what the definition of science is, but it must be objective and impartial, and its connotations are vast and boundless. Therefore, we cannot use limited scientific theories with a history of only a few hundred years to argue against Chinese medicine, which has a history of several thousand years. What is more, many current and even future social phenomena, difficult and complicated diseases, etc. can be argued with the current limited so-called scientific theory system? Practice is the only criterion for testing the truth, hundreds of millions of Chinese children and grandchildren's health are used to maintain Chinese medicine, what reason to infer that Chinese medicine does not have the scientific nature of it!

(Personal opinion, just for reference!)

Unscientific! Chinese medicine is definitely not scientific! TCM is beyond science. Science cannot explain TCM. I mean current science cannot explain it. When science and western medicine develops for another two or three hundred years, it may be able to explain some of it.

Chinese medicine is a butterfly and Western medicine is a caterpillar or chrysalis. The two sides are not in the same dimension, and it's normal for a chrysalis to not understand a butterfly!

Chinese medicine is a metaphysical approach to analyze the causes and solutions of diseases, a holistic view, a bird's eye view of the elephant, a view of the mountains, so it is a holistic treatment, because the Tao is the law that is used in all areas of the world.

Western medicine is to treat specific diseases that are metaphysical in nature, like looking at an elephant through the lens of a flea, and seeing the elephant is right, it's just the tip of the iceberg, and you need to merge all the western medicine departments to come up with a complete elephant. The lack of a unified view of the whole often makes it easy to cure a disease in one place and have a problem in another. The cycle goes on and on, because it destroys the world's most perfect human autoimmune system. Therefore, Western medicine is quick and effective in curing diseases, but it is very tiring, and soon there are new problems. Only Chinese medicine is a systematic approach to solving problems, and is the scientific way to restore the body's immune system.

Therefore, Chinese medicine is a "way", while Western medicine is a "technique". Scientific theories only represent the highest level of knowledge that mankind can achieve, which means that the medical theory of Chinese medicine is much higher than the current knowledge of mankind, so it is only natural that science can not explain Chinese medicine.

As Western medicine continues to evolve, it is increasingly proving that Chinese medicine is right!

Chinese medicine is infinitely close to the truth of medicine, leading Western medicine 3,500 years, a Huangdi Neijing distance, science does not science do not know, only know the history of only people continue to confirm and enrich, no one can negate and falsify, a person are not, no! Chinese medicine black as the so-called negative argument is its basic human body theory model yin and yang five elements, but these people simply do not understand what is called yin and yang five elements meridian acupuncture points camping gas concept of Chinese medicine, just a flag of science, shouting empty scientific slogans, the people's thinking to the superstition of the evil way to guide, and those who engage in the traitors to the historical nihilism of the same lineage, and the Chinese medicine, and the Chinese medicine, and the Chinese medicine, and the Chinese medicine, and the Chinese medicine, and the Chinese medicine, and the Chinese medicine.

Chinese medicine is not only a science, but also a very profound science. Chinese medicine is the essence summarized by our ancestors over thousands of years, and it is the treasure of the Chinese nation that needs to be carried forward.