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Is the integration of Chinese and Western medicine ruining Chinese medicine?

Is the integration of Chinese and Western medicine ruining Chinese medicine?

There is no combination of Chinese and Western medicine, Chinese medicine decline even faster, there is no Chinese medicine law of Chinese medicine coddling and protection of Chinese medicine, China's Chinese medicine has long been the same as Japan and South Korea, basically given up! The reason is very simple, Chinese medicine is not completely bad, not that pseudo-science to incorrigible, but very backward and backward, from the perspective of modern medicine and objective evaluation of people have given up, the world is not China has traditional medicine, China called Chinese medicine, foreign countries also have a variety of traditional medicine, medicine is also effective, but most of the abandonment of the only large-scale preservation of our Chinese medicine should be reformed, such as the excavation of Chinese medicine should be reformed, such as the discovery of targeted proprietary Chinese medicines, honey-refined Chuanbei loquat ointment, Ma Yinglong hemorrhoid ointment, compound Danshen drip pills, and the precise refining of Artemisinin and Huanglianxin are very good examples, but of course, Chinese medicine practitioners do not recognize Artemisinin and Huanglianxin as proprietary Chinese medicines because they do not match with Chinese medicine theories. They are backward and still blame Western medicine for squeezing the living space. The most shameless thing about Chinese medicine is that all the benefits are theirs, and all the shits have been deducted to Western medicine, for example, the cure for the future disease is Chinese medicine, and it is said that there is no such thing as Western medicine, is there no such thing as Western medicine? Vaccine is not the best way to cure the disease? Saying that Western doctors give medicines for transitional treatments, do Chinese doctors not give medicines for transitional treatments? Bone injury patients, Western medicine only said simple anti-inflammatory, a good plaster or sling to let the patient to get well, while the Chinese medicine but to compress, said that compresses faster, and even let the soup medicine, treatment is obviously a lot more expensive than Western medicine ah! Needless to say, Chinese medicine can not cure the serious bone injuries. For the treatment of colds, Western doctors say drink water can be, but instead of Chinese medicine in the patients prescribed Chinese medicine, who transition treatment ah? Is it not because the patients think that they are too slow to get well and cannot wait before they go for IV drip? Take medicine is also too slow to get well, have to take a drip, in foreign countries do not get sick to a certain extent, not to mention the drip, pills will not give you ah! Backwardness should be recognized, to discover a good prescription, we work together to study pharmaceuticals, do not organize those nebulous!

I'm glad to be here to talk about integrating Western and Chinese medicine.

In the 1960s, after graduating from the six-year undergraduate medical program of Sun Yat-sen Medical College, I was decentralized to work as a doctor in the rural areas, where there was a shortage of medicines, outpatient clinics, outpatient clinics, and night clinics, and medicines were given as they came along with the clinics. Due to the lack of medicines, I learned Chinese herbal medicine while working. He cured a middle-aged man of celiac disease (sequelae of hemochromatosis) by using fragrant bracteate (shepherd's purse), and a 51-year-old man with roundworm intestinal obstruction by using Roundworm Spirit plus a bowl of peanut oil. He was so famous that he felt that the local methods were also useful.

In 1976, I went to the Sixth Western-Chinese Class run by the Shantou Municipal Health Bureau for one year of study, and formally returned to the health center to carry out the work of integrating Chinese and Western medicines. We cured 8 cases of encephalitis B with herbal juice in the ward; one case of a critically ill child (Yuan Moufang, female, 13 years old. High fever, convulsions, stiff neck, frequent respiratory failure ......) with herbal juice nasal feed, Lobelin 1.branch intramuscular injection, every 10.minutes; artificial respiration and so on. After three days and three nights of resuscitation, he was turned to safety, and was discharged from the hospital a week later without sequelae and cured.

After being transferred to Shantou in 1978, she was sent to Nankai Hospital in Tianjin, China (China Key Pilot Hospital of Integrating Chinese and Western Medicines) for one year. He has been engaged in the clinical work of combining Chinese and Western medicines in treating dermatosis for one year, and has published 22 papers in provincial medical journals since then.

My experience is that the combination of Chinese and Western medicine is not to destroy Chinese medicine, but to discover valuable therapeutic experience from the treasure trove that is Chinese medicine. Whatever is beneficial to the cure, we adopt it.

Following Chairman Mao's instructions, Chinese medical personnel have taken the path of combining Chinese and Western medicine, which has led to the rapid development of China's medical and health services, and in the 1990s the "biological model" of Western medicine was developed into the "Social, Psychological, and Biological Model", which is being further developed. Further development is under way.

I believe that the combination of Chinese and Western medicine will eventually be reached:

The human body is an open and complex giant system and the complete unity of a comprehensive and integrated approach from qualitative to quantitative (including the meridian system as a functional system).

Roads are made by people. In fact, there is no road on the ground, but when more people walk on it, it becomes a road. --This is also the case with the path of integrating Chinese and Western medicine.

The above views are for reference, please correct me.


Is the integration of Chinese and Western medicine ruining Chinese medicine? Is the path of integrating Chinese and Western medicines feasible? It is worthwhile for every person who loves and cares about Chinese medicine to think deeply.

1 Current status of Chinese medicine

Let us first read two authoritative reports, which will probably give us an idea of the current situation of Chinese medicine:

Contemporary Chinese Medicine Development and Management Reform: At present, there are more than 2,800 Chinese medicine hospitals in the country, but there is not a single Chinese medicine hospital in the true traditional sense, and basically all of them are hospitals combining Chinese and Western medicines. According to statistics, in 2001, only 40 percent of the drug income of the national Chinese medicine, traditional Chinese medicine, Western medicine accounted for 60 percent. 2004 in the national Chinese medicine hospital inpatient, the use of Western medicine costs accounted for the entire hospitalization fee of three percent is 7.4 percent, the cost of proprietary Chinese medicines 6.57 percent, and herbs accounted for one and a half percent. The rate of Chinese medicine treatment in Chinese medicine hospitals has been declining year by year, and in 2006, Chinese medicine treatment cases accounted for only 18 percent of all cases, down 10 percent from 28 percent in 2005.

State Administration of Traditional Chinese Medicine "ten provinces and cities of traditional Chinese medicine medical needs and services survey" data show that the proportion of patients choose to willing to see a traditional Chinese medicine than in 2000 when the percentage dropped by 10 percentage points, the proportion of chronic illnesses consulting a traditional Chinese medicine practitioner from the original sixty-seven percent down to thirty-eight point three four percent. According to some data, in 1949, there were only 87,000 Western medical practitioners, but by 2001, the number had reached 1.75 million, an increase of 20 times; Chinese medical practitioners had 276,000 in 1949, but by 2001, they numbered 334,000, an increase of only 21 percent.

2 The Way Forward for Chinese Medicine

The current situation of Chinese medicine is described in an idiom as "miserable", and the problem is. The root cause of this problem is the integration of Chinese and Western medicine.

If a Chinese medicine practitioner is allowed to use only Chinese medicine and acupuncture, how can his thinking on Chinese medicine weaken, how can Chinese medicine academics be alienated, how can Chinese medicine technology deteriorate, and how can the distinctive advantages of Chinese medicine be diluted? A Chinese medicine practitioner uses both Chinese and Western medicines. Is the efficacy of Chinese medicine at work, or is it Western medicine at work? If there is no curative effect, is it because the Chinese medicine is not prescribed properly, or is it because the Western medicine is not prescribed properly? If a Chinese medicine practitioner only uses Chinese medicine, he will summarize his experience and lessons from the Chinese medicine point of view and continue to improve. If he can be allowed to use Western medicines, he will have a way out, and he will not be attentive enough in Chinese medicine. Over time, this has led to the formation of the strange disease of Chinese medicine and Western medicines, which is also a common problem in today's Chinese medicine sector.

The TCM practitioners themselves have affected the efficacy and reputation of TCM.

Chinese medicine falls into the category of informal medicine in the vast majority of countries and is still categorized as a form of complementary alternative medicine in developed Western countries. Overseas TCM practitioners cannot use western medicines, and they can survive in such an environment by relying on TCM characteristics and TCM techniques. Similarly, Western countries do not have the idea of combining Western and Chinese medicine; they learn Western medicine and use it. I used Chinese medicine or proprietary Chinese medicines, and what was the result? As early as 2012, there were media reports that about 70% of proprietary Chinese medicines in the country were prescribed by Western medical practitioners in general hospitals, with an unreasonable utilization rate of 40%. However, this is only the national average situation, the actual situation in some hospitals is even worse than this data. 2012, the People's Hospital of Sichuan Province, three months of prescriptions, pCms accounted for 38%, and more than 95% of the pCms prescribed by Western doctors, including all departments of the hospital, which is also a provincial tertiary hospital. Western medicine has affected the efficacy and reputation of Chinese medicine. With all these, how can the people trust Chinese medicine!

Combined Chinese and Western medicine does not exist. Chinese medicine can draw on modern scientific and technological achievements, but it is not a combination of Chinese and Western medicine, but rather a transformation of these achievements to become part of Chinese medicine. Chinese medicine advances with the times and does not stick to the old rut. It is not simply a matter of bringing in the things of Western medicine, but of Chinese-medicizing them, and this is the key! Without Chinese medicalization, it is just raw Chinese medicine plus Western medicine, and the combination is not talked about!

The current development of Chinese medicine must take the path of Chinese medicine itself. Chinese medicine is a steed that should run on the grassland, but if it is allowed to run on the asphalt road, it is impossible for it not to lose its hooves. The way out for Chinese medicine is to absorb the best achievements of modern technology and Western medicine on the basis of inheritance, so that it can be Chinese medicine and become part of Chinese medicine; not Westernization in the name of Chinese medicine. It has been said that the so-called integration of Chinese and Western medicine is essentially a "peaceful evolution" of Chinese medicine by modern medicine in the name of science, both theoretically and ideologically.

The combination of Chinese and Western medicines is only possible in large hospitals, but not in our private Chinese medicine practitioners. The hospitals are also trying to discourage patients from seeking treatment from private Chinese medicine practitioners, and they say that the national hospitals are unable to treat them, and the private Chinese medicine practitioners are even more incapable of doing so.

It is only when the patient is desperate that he turns to a private Chinese medicine practitioner. There are also money spent, can not be when looking for folk Chinese medicine. Another know that folk Chinese medicine strong, because it involves health insurance, had to run to the hospital. It is precisely the most grass-roots people, sick people are looking for folk doctors, folk treatment to not Ding a few money, a cross into the hospital is thousands of tens of thousands, can not afford to back.

We are more lenient in Tongren, as long as the hanging of the Chinese herbalist license will do. Tongren industry and commerce for Chinese herbal medicine hall for business license, if you hang Chinese medicine hall, must be approved by the Health Bureau.

A year ago I made a rough count of over one hundred and twenty Chinese herbalist storefronts in the Bihui district of Tongren.

Thank you, the combination of Chinese and Western medicine will not destroy Chinese medicine, complement each other's strengths and weaknesses, in the last century, the health administrative departments also special sub-indicators of Western doctors leave to study Chinese medicine in Chinese medicine colleges and universities, a lot of Western medical personnel to further their studies in traditional Chinese medicine, returned to the original hospital to carry out a combination of Chinese and Western medicine of the smelting method, and achieved a more satisfactory results, such as biliary roundworms, Western medicine, injections and transfusion of water are of no help, and after the prescription of Chinese medicine a dose of medicine on the discharge of the patient's pain, which is my personal experience. The patient's pain, this is my personal experience, from the composition of the drug, completely a cold and hot negative cast of the formula, why such a good effect? I believe that our country is a populous country, should carry forward the eight immortals across the sea, each show their skills is a more secure path, Chinese and Western medicine to learn from each other, learn from each other's strengths and weaknesses, each do their best, why not do it? Why is it like a few individual non-damaged accusations dash Chinese medicine, non-damaged to adhere to the green data science, I do not know that these people want to completely adhere to Western science, cancel or destroy the Chinese medicine will bring you endless benefits? Do you want to be a sinner in history? Waiting for future generations to give you with iron casting like Qin Hui kneeling statue? By then it will be too late to regret! Finally, I wish that the road of the integration of Chinese and Western medicine will go wider and wider, and will bring benefits and gospel to the patients. Thank you all!

At present, modern medicine (Western medicine) is the mainstream, even engaged in Chinese medicine is also very clear: and some people subjective assumptions of the situation is the opposite, Chinese medicine ability to cure the disease compared to modern medicine (Western medicine) in a weaker position,, Chinese medicine is unable to do anything to solve the problem of tuberculosis, smallpox, congenital heart disease, difficult to give birth to ........ The problems that are beyond the reach of Chinese medicine, such as tuberculosis, smallpox, congenital heart disease and difficult labor, are easily solved by modern medicine. Chinese medicine is in such a decline that it can only survive by combining with modern medicine (Western medicine).

You walk into any Chinese medicine hospital, you will find the same full set of modern medicine (Western medicine) instruments and equipment drugs and treatment methods, only the back of the Chinese medicine and a few pairs of soups or acupuncture, the name "combination of Chinese and Western medicine". First of all, this can not be called a combination, can only be called copying; secondly, hard to call the combination should also be a combination of Western and Chinese medicine, because the diagnosis and treatment of modern medicine (Western medicine) is the main; and finally, this "combination of Western and Chinese medicine" has already made Chinese medicine skills degraded greatly.

It is true that TCM practitioners have paid too much for the integration of Chinese and Western medicines, but who asked you to pay? Modern medicine is dead set on combining with Chinese medicine? There is no combination of Chinese and Western medicine in the world, except in China.Because Chinese medicine understands: without combining it with Chinese medicine, it will decline even more quickly, theSo it is the Chinese medicine practitioners who have taken the initiative to voluntarily and without consulting modern medicine forcibly combine with Western medicine, and do we have to let modern medicine take the blame at the end of the day?

This question is a good question, we need to look at the dialectical, nowadays the name of the combination of Chinese and Western medicine is very loud, in the hospital is also very common, for example, each of our hospital admissions signed by the treatment program, are unified to allow patients to choose the third, that is, the combination of Chinese and Western medicine treatment program, there are two other Chinese medicine treatment program and Western medical treatment program, and our diagnosis, there is a Chinese medicine diagnosis, with the name of the disease and the type of evidence, and there is a Western medicine diagnosis. We also have western diagnosis.



In the past, after the rapid development of Western medicine in China, we put forward the idea of integrating Chinese and Western medicines in order to make Western medicine accept Chinese medicine. We have designed the specialization of integrating Chinese and Western medicines in schools, and set up departments of integrating Chinese and Western medicines in major hospitals, and nowadays, our policy is also to attach equal importance to both Chinese and Western medicines. However, Chinese medicine and Western medicine are two different theoretical systems, with different methods of diagnosis and treatment of illnesses, so how can they be combined? Is Chinese medicine assimilated to Western medicine, or Western medicine assimilated to Chinese medicine, are not realistic, two different ways of thinking, how to combine, not realistic, so our reference is problematic, should be called Chinese and Western medicine thinking of switching, nowadays, our medical practitioner exams also have a combination of Chinese and Western medicine exams.



Some people say that integrating Chinese and Western medicines is to synthesize the strengths of both Chinese and Western medicines, to make the best use of their respective strengths to treat patients, which is simple to say but difficult to do.



The subject said that the combination of Chinese and Western medicine is indeed Chinese medicine is doing, this does not affect the development of Chinese medicine itself, but to promote further in-depth study of Chinese medicine, research in the past a lot of issues that have not been studied clearly, such as acupuncture, traditional Chinese medicine and other traditional Chinese medicine methods of treatment of disease, the recent Shanghai, there is a new study, acupuncture treatment of asthma has made a breakthrough in the mechanism of the pathology of asthma, which is also a very gratifying thing to do oh.

Combination of Chinese and Western medicine, there is a micro understanding and macro-understanding, there is a narrow understanding and broad understanding, the combination of Chinese and Western medicine is the establishment of new China, Chairman Mao put forward, how do we understand the two different diagnosis and treatment of the combination of medicine, which mainly refers to the national health care system, under the guidance of the policy, the two different methods of medical care at the same time, and at the same time, the development of the treatment of diseases and rescue, save the lives of the injured, and to take the best of the best to give full play to the strengths of their respective advantages, to advocate the two-pronged approach. Advocating two-legged approach, the state should have both Western hospitals, but also to develop Chinese medicine hospitals, both to train Western medical personnel, but also to train Chinese medicine children, which is the true meaning of the combination of Chinese and Western medicine, while some people understand the combination of Chinese and Western medicine as Chinese medicine both traditional medicine and Western medicine methods of diagnosis and treatment, Western medicine in the treatment of Western medicine at the same time compatible with Chinese medicine, or in the treatment of a particular disease both the use of Western medicine treatment methods and the introduction of Chinese medicine, but also the introduction of Chinese medicine, the use of Western medicine treatment methods, and the introduction of Chinese medicine. Western medical treatment methods and the introduction of Chinese medicine, the final adverse reactions to put the blame on the Chinese medicine, due to this narrow combination, so the emergence of the current Chinese medicine is not like Chinese medicine, Western medicine is not like the chaotic diagnosis and treatment phenomenon of Western medicine. We have to know that making salt eggs and building atomic bombs are totally different, how can they be mixed together? How can they be combined? However, under the guidance of macro policy, the combination of Chinese and Western medicine is completely possible and should be vigorously advocated. Out of a road suitable for Chinese characteristics of the combination of Chinese and Western medicine.

Combination of Chinese and Western medicine will not destroy Chinese medicine, Chinese medicine, Western medicine, each has its own strengths, should be used in a comprehensive manner, the benefit of mankind, Chinese medicine will be very good development, the end of modern medicine should not be divided into Chinese medicine, Western medicine, as long as the patient's benefit, the use of what medicines with what drugs, as long as it can cure the disease is a good medicine. If the Western medicine method to study Chinese medicine, to engage in the combination, that is called the combination of Western and Chinese, is not feasible. Only first learn Chinese medicine, can use Chinese medicine methods to diagnose and treat diseases, and then further study of Western medicine, the combination of Chinese and Western medicine is the right way! Must use Chinese medicine thinking to study Chinese medicine based on the use of modern science and technology to study it and develop it.

I don't agree.

First of all, Chinese medicine will not be destroyed because of the combination of Chinese and Western medicines. Chinese medicine has its own tenacious vitality, which has been passed down for thousands of years and is widely recognized by the people of China. Is the combination of Chinese and Western medicines a "guardian" or a "gravedigger" for Chinese medicine? I think it should be more of a "guardian" role.

Why is there a combination of Western and Chinese medicine?

When the introduction of Western medicine into China in a few decades, Chinese medicine was forced into a desperate situation, and there was even a wave of abolition of Chinese medicine in the early years of the founding of the People's Republic of China; Chairman Mao found and criticized this error in a timely manner, and the Third National Health Administration Conference began to reverse the tendency to "despise and discriminate against" Chinese medicine, and then gradually established the correct approach of combining Western and traditional Chinese medicine.The process of integrating Chinese and Western medicine is mainly carried out by medical talents who are well versed in both Chinese and Western medicine, using modern scientific knowledge and methods to discover, organize and study the heritage of the motherland's medicinal science, to enrich the modern medical science, and to develop a unified new medicine with Chinese national characteristics.


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Traditional Chinese Medicine, Western Medicine, and Integrative Chinese and Western Medicine Troika

Good TCM theories and good clinical methods are summarized in a hundred schools of thought and a hundred flowers.It is impossible to achieve great medicine by placing one school above a hundred other schools.Therefore, our country advocates that the three carriages of Chinese medicine, Western medicine, and the combination of Chinese and Western medicines should go hand in hand, on the one hand, to enrich the medical system of our country, and on the other hand, to develop medicine with Chinese characteristics in the collision, so that the good medical system can really be used for the general people.

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