Hello, I am Fatty who loves reading and history. Chinese civilization has a history of 5,000 years, of which Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) is a large part. From the ancient myth of Shen Nong tasted all kinds of herbs to the Yellow Emperor's interpretation of the Yellow Emperor's Classic of Internal Medicine, until Hua Tuo, Zhang Zhongjing, Song Ci, Ge Hong and so on successive generations of medical practitioners to gradually improve, Chinese medicine system to form an independent set of theories for the ancient Chinese children's health escort.

As for Western medicine first appeared in China in the late Ming and early Qing dynasties, the missionaries who came to China brought Christianity to China at the same time, they also brought Western modern science and medicine. Let's go through the history of the development of Chinese medicine and the history of the development of Western medicine to analyze them separately.

History of Chinese Medicine

Chinese medicine was born in the primitive society, and the theory of Chinese medicine was basically formed during the Spring and Autumn and Warring States Periods, and has been summarized and developed in the following generations. In addition to this, it has had a profound influence on the countries in the Chinese character culture circle, such as Japan's Chinese medicine, Korea's Korean medicine, Korea's Goryeo medicine, Vietnam's Eastern medicine and so on, all of which are developed on the basis of Chinese medicine. The formation of Chinese medicine is a medical theory system that has been gradually formed and developed through long-term medical practice.

Chinese medicine emerged in the primitive society, the Spring and Autumn and Warring States Chinese medicine theory has been basically formed, the emergence of anatomy and medical sub-specialties, has adopted the "four diagnostic", the treatment method has acupuncture, acupuncture, tonics, moxibustion, guidance, Bu Qi, Zhu Yu and so on. In the Eastern Han Dynasty, Zhang Zhongjing, a famous medical doctor, had already understood the "eight principles" (yin and yang, surface and interior, emptiness and reality, cold and heat) and summarized the "eight methods". Hua Tuo, on the other hand, was renowned for his mastery of surgery and anesthesia, and he also created the "Five Animal Play" for physical fitness. In the Tang Dynasty, Sun Simiao summarized the theories and experiences of his predecessors, collected more than 5,000 prescriptions, and used evidence-based treatment, and was honored as the "King of Medicine" for his highest medical ethics. During the Song Dynasty, the Song government set up the Hanlin Medical College, the medical division is close to complete, and unified the Chinese acupuncture points due to copying caused by the disorder, the publication of the "Tu Jing". Since the Jin Yuan Dynasty, Chinese medicine began to decline. Jin Yuan, Chinese medicine began to decline. After the Ming and Qing dynasties, there appeared the warm disease school of the time school, gradually replacing the prescription school of Chinese medicine. Since the end of the Qing Dynasty, China was invaded by the Western powers and the country's fortunes weakened. At the same time, the influx of modern medicine (Western medicine), a serious impact on the development of Chinese medicine. Chinese medicine has since begun to be retrieved by some people with the Western medicine model. Become incongruous, some Chinese medicine everyone buried in the folk, until 2003, "SARS" since, prescription Chinese medicine began to have signs of recovery.

History of Western Medicine

What modern Chinese people call "Western medicine" usually refers to "the medical system of modern Western countries". The modern western medical system originated in the western countries in the modern period, it is the western countries in the modern period scholars in the denial and abandonment of the ancient Greek medicine, the reductionist point of view to study the human body's physiological phenomena and pathological phenomena in the process of the development of an anatomy and physiology, histology, embryology, biochemistry and molecular biology as the basic disciplines of the new system of medical science, which is now commonly referred to as "western medicine" by the Chinese people. This new medical system is what the Chinese people nowadays often call "Western medicine".

Early in human history, medicine took the form of philosophy. Humans came up with various medical theories based on their understanding of their own bodies. The medical system of ancient Western countries originated in ancient Greece, and the founder of ancient Greek medicine was Hippocrates. In the seventeenth century, the "doctrine of the four bodily fluids" came under severe attack, as it was considered to be an empty theory without any material basis. Since then, scholars in Western countries in the modern period have denied and rejected ancient Greek medicine. After the Renaissance, Western medicine began to change from empirical medicine to experimental medicine. 1543, Vesalius published "Theory of the Construction of the Human Body" and established human anatomy. 17th century, the application of experiments and measurements made the life sciences into a scientific track, which was marked by Harvey's discovery of the circulation of the blood, and in the 18th century, Mogany pushed the understanding of diseases from symptoms to organs and established pathological anatomy. By the middle of the 19th century, the German pathologist Virchow advocated cellular pathology, explaining the causes of disease as changes in cellular form and structure. in the second half of the 19th century, Pasteur proved that fermentation and infectious diseases were caused by microorganisms, and the German Koch R. discovered the Vibrio cholerae, Mycobacterium tuberculosis, and Bacillus anthracis, etc., and improved the method of cultivating bacteria and bacterial staining Most of the major pathogenic bacteria have been discovered during this period. aspirin was synthesized at the end of the 19th century, and the synthesis and refinement of various drugs have been developed continuously since then. Until now, Western medicine has subdivided each subject into individual tissues of the human body and studied them separately, and then developed drugs and solutions for each disease. Western doctors can study to the smallest detail an individual area of refinement, but current developments still do not provide a comprehensive solution to a patient's illness. (Partially from wikipedia)

By referring to the history of the development of Chinese and Western medicine, although different paths, inevitably the same destination. The ultimate goal is to solve and alleviate the patient's disease. History is developing, all the science and technology also need to synchronize the progress in order to better serve the people. In the future, Chinese and Western medicine are bound to develop together, and this is the way to go. Ancient Chinese people rely on traditional Chinese medicine to cure diseases, and in the future, Chinese people will rely on the combination of Chinese and Western medicine to cure diseases.

The above is the fat brother for this question, I hope that all the same good together to discuss, like the fat brother please for the fat brother kudos, fat brother will work harder to contribute to the wonderful content for everyone.

It is impossible to say that the ancient Chinese ate Western medicines as Liu Bang invited Xiang Yu to eat a hamburger and Xiao He chased Han Xin on a bicycle.

It is said that the first person to take western medicine in China was Emperor Kangxi, who was cured of malaria by taking cinchona cream.

After having first-hand experience the Kangxi Emperor was impressed by Western medicine and Western medicine.

The Kangxi Emperor was originally a man with an open and tolerant attitude towards Western culture. Under his arrangement, a large number of missionaries who knew about medicine were reused, providing an important opportunity for Western medicine to enter China.

As the Chinese nation continues to thrive, Chinese medicine has been instrumental in blessing people's health.

Human beings are developing, medicine is progressing, while the virus is also evolving, Chinese medicine and western medicine have their own merits, complement each other to fight against diseases, which is the best thing to do.

Like the Nobel Prize winner Tu Youyou, who deserves our pride, her invention of artemisinin has saved mankind from the ravages of malaria. The production of Artemisinin: The raw materials of traditional Chinese medicine are used, and the purification process is the traditional method of western medicine. Its introduction has made great contributions to human health.

The person who asked this question does not have any general knowledge of Chinese medicine and does not have any general knowledge of Chinese history. You can look at when Western medicine arrived in China. When did Western medicine start to develop? Chinese medicine is thousands of years older than Western medicine. Of course the early Chinese medicine could only do what was needed to save an emergency but not a life. There is no cure for some diseases. We should recognize that Western medicine has its advantages.

Hello, I'll discuss it.What did people do when they got sick in ancient China, take western medicine?This question, in fact, the latter part of this question can be very clear to know the answer, because we are now using the history of modern Western medicine is only a few hundred years of the world, think about our Chinese thousands of years of history, before the introduction of Western medicine how can we use Western medicine?

Paleo-Western medicine deeply influenced by religion

Western medicine in ancient times, in addition to certain achievements in certain specialty areas, most of them are relatively backward. Western religion in order to stabilize their position, so for a long time to monopolize the medical, and because of this ancient Western medicine is very slow, the Western ancient disease is no more than the following options:

1,self-healingJust like in the West, many people in the worst-hit areas of the epidemic are still reluctant to wear masks to protect themselves, and that's just the way it is in their country. They believe in their own immunity in the face of disease. Of course, in ancient times, immunity should be said, but it is true that some minor illnesses can be cured by immunity.

2,The West also uses herbs, oresIn fact, when there was no modern medicine in ancient times, the means of curing diseases were very limited, so the West also used herbs and ores in ancient times, but because of the monopoly of religion, they were not as lucky as we are. We have Shennong tasted all kinds of herbs and Li Shizhen compiled "Compendium of Materia Medica", to grass, wood, stone and stone of the medicinal properties of the pharmacology of the touch, the formation of a systematic system of medicine; but the Western religion of the Pope, bishops and so on will not be for the sake of other people to make such sacrifices, they may be looking at a certain color of the appearance of the grass or mimic the behavior of the animals, to summarize some of the knowledge.

3,Surgery.Western medicine actually recorded the human brain as early as around 2000 BC, so the West's understanding of the human body is actually not later than ancient China, but the same is considered by religion as an alien, was limited to the development, so for a long time do not get the development, but they have a long time ago similar to the act of surgery, but limited to bloodletting only, no more in-depth study. The West believes that everything can be bloodletting, headache, hand pain, foot pain, where the pain where the blood, but this accidentally cut to the aorta, there is no sewing technology in ancient times, the mortality rate can be imagined.

4,The light of the Lord.Religion is not a weak influence in the West even now, so in ancient times many of the people in the West who were sick looked to religion to get their heads touched or something, to bathe in the"The light of the Lord."Maybe it's just as well.

5,Witch Doctor.Witch doctors in fact is also considered a kind of faith culture, now many tribes in Africa still exist, I remember watching a video, a witch doctor to cure people is to vigorously beat the patient's head, is estimated to be the treatment of headaches. But obviously this is not scientific.

The West was deeply influenced by religion, and to this day many medical organizations use symbols consisting of the snake staff, which has its origins in Western mythology. But likewise, medicine in the West in ancient times was suppressed by religion and was slow to develop.

treasure of Chinese medicine

Unlike the West, Chinese medicine in ancient times is an element of myth, even if ancient China is also said to be affected by the gods, will not hinder the development of Chinese medicine, in fact, the earliest Chinese medicine and the development of the West is very similar, it is said to be Fuxi invented acupuncture and tried to use herbs to cure the disease, Shennong tasted a hundred herbs and summed up the pharmacological theory of which, and the earliest Chinese medicine there is a Zhuyucuo Section is also similar to the Western religion of the gods to cure the disease, but ancient times it is with the use of The earliest Chinese medicine had a section called Zhuyu, which was also similar to the Western religion of God, but in ancient times it used charms and spells, or exorcism. In fact, the thirteen sections of Chinese medicine in the Ming Dynasty also included Zhuyu Section (the thirteen sections of the Ming Dynasty were: large square pulse, small square pulse, women, sores, acupuncture, eyes, mouth and throat, pharynx, typhoid fever, bone-setting, golden arrowhead, massage, Zhuyu.) . To say how much importance Chinese medicine in ancient China, we can say that one of the simplest example, even when the first emperor Qin Shi Huang burned the book did not destroy the medical books, because the medical representative of the treatment of diseases to save lives, is closely related to the population, the population happens to be the ancient times of a country's important national strength embodiment. Since there is no religious influence, and also have the support of the imperial court, ancient Chinese medicine development speed is far more than the ancient western medicine.

It is not boasting, in the West before the development of modern medicine, Chinese medicine cure rate is far more than Western medicine, but because of the Chinese medicine system is huge, and the ancient medical resources are small, often a doctor in the body of thirteen subjects of general medicine, coupled with the factions, the gateway to the distinction between men and women, the distinction between the good and the bad, so the study of traditional Chinese medicine is to require a very long time in order to become a qualified doctor. This also directly affects the reputation of Chinese medicine, the last century, also because of the lack of medical resources, China had a certain period of time to use the barefoot doctor certificate, some barefoot doctors just rely on a number of prescriptions in the folk medicine, visible Chinese medicine in China for thousands of years to play a role. However, the level of barefoot doctors is also uneven, to a certain extent, but also more damage to the reputation of Chinese medicine.

Western medicine enters China

Western medicine entered China not too late, the late Ming and early Qing Dynasty Western medicine was brought in by missionaries, but at that time only some very simple anatomy, but did not have an impact on Chinese medicine, the real impact on China is the nineteenth century cowpox inoculation method. Since then, the gradual development of Western medicine in the country, because compared to the warm nourishing Chinese medicine is different, Western medicine is indeed some diseases on the treatment can be immediate, and therefore Western medicine pressed Chinese medicine, coupled with the authorities of the late Qing Dynasty and the early Republic of China's influence is very weak, but also become a reason for the decline of Chinese medicine. 1879 there is a name Yu Yue's scholar put forward the "abolition of the theory of medicine", the literary world, Lu Xun studied a few days of Western medicine has been criticized in his works of Chinese medicine! For example, human blood buns, although this does make people criticize, but does not represent Chinese medicine.

The authorities of the late Qing Dynasty and the Republic of China did not pay attention to or even suppressed, so that the decline of Chinese medicine accelerated, a lot of inheritance can only be seen in the medical text, for the Chinese medicine practitioners accustomed to the way of inheritance of words and teachings, which obviously makes Chinese medicine does not advance, but rather retrogress. On the contrary, Western medicine, recognized and developed in all aspects of science and technology is more and more advanced, modern medicine is more and more advanced, and only now want to pick up Chinese medicine has been too far behind.

Conclusion What did ancient people do when they got sick?

So much has been said about Chinese and Western medicine, but seeing a doctor is not something you can do whenever you want! Even now there are only a few countries that can have free medical care, and a few that can have subsidized medical care, so it was even less easy to see a doctor in ancient times. Old age, sickness and death, life is at the forefront, think of the late Qing Dynasty for the court of those unequal treaties, the people of the civil population squeezed on the half-life, where there is money to see a doctor, even in ancient times such as peacetime can not afford to see a disease is not a minority. Even in ancient times, there were not many people who could not afford to see a doctor in times of peace. When there was a natural disaster or a plague, forget about it. In good times, the imperial court would give some medical aid, but it was a drop in the bucket, but there were always medical donations, and those who had a good heart provided some medicine. The missionaries in the late Qing Dynasty would often give medical aid in order to increase their influence, not to say that people at that time had no backbone, but just to survive. It is also so that the expansion of the influence of Western medicine is also more rapid, Chinese medicine is just the ancient way to see the sick, but not everyone can afford to see, can not afford to see the people also asked for life, so they will be based on the old generations of oral tradition of medicine, prescription, their own mountain to find medicine, even now there are still a lot of people in the countryside to use this way, such as boiled to the fire tea, scallion soup, and so on. What to do when you are sick is not only a medical problem, but also a social problem.A special note is that now most of the prescription usage has long been lost and should not be used indiscriminately.

Chinese medicine has a history of thousands of years in China, no matter who gets sick is to eat Chinese medicine, Western medicine is invented by foreigners that time has not yet entered China. That's why people in ancient times only ate Chinese medicine, no western medicine.

It's basically a hard carry, with the occasional placebo.

I'm glad to be able to see this question, and here's what History has to say about it.

Chinese medicine has a history of several thousand years, and our ancestors have always used Chinese medicine to see the sick, from the allusion to Bian Magpie's avoidance of medical treatment when he met Duke Cai Huan, to Hua Tuo's looking, sniffing and questioning at a later stage, Chinese medicine has formed a systematic discipline.

There are also very many ancient books in our country with Chinese medicine and herbal medicine as their contents, some of which have been handed down from official sources and some of which have been handed down in the folklore.

Many medical families have their own formulas for medicines and their own heirloom medical books. Therefore, Chinese medicine had an indelible role in the ancient times of China.

Of course, Western medicine is not a modern day into China, the earliest can be traced back to the Kangxi period of the Qing Dynasty, in the Palace Documentary Series, there is such a story, Jiangning Weaver Cao Yin, that is, Cao Xueqin's grandfather suffered from malaria, ate a lot of traditional Chinese medicine does not work, only to the emperor to ask for the holy medicine. Emperor Kangxi sent someone fast to send him the holy medicine, Cao Yin ate, the condition of the rapid improvement, and finally cured. The name of the medicine was called Jin Ji Na, which is also known as Jin Ji Na Cream in Western medicine. From this story, we can see that western medicine was used in China at least during the Kangxi period, especially among the high officials and nobles, and these were brought to China by western missionaries.

The above is just a personal opinion, thank you!

Don't think that only Western medicine can cure diseases. Thousands of years ago, our ancestors discovered that many plants in nature can not only be eaten, but some of them can also play a therapeutic role when people are sick. This is now popular around the world of Chinese medicine, the famous Chinese medicine treatment. The history of Chinese medicine is quite long.

I. Herbal treatment

According to legend, we have an old ancestor called Shennong (Yandi), after a long period of time to taste all kinds of herbs invented medicinal herbs to cure diseases, Yandi Shennong realized that the taste of herbs and trees bitter cool, spicy hot, sweet tonic, sour appetizing. He taught the people to eat different herbs to cure different diseases, and fewer of them died of diseases. He tasted three hundred and sixty-five kinds of herbs and wrote "Shennong's Materia Medica", telling his subjects to bring them back to cure the diseases of the people in the world.

"people have diseases, unknown medicine and stone, Yandi (Shennong's) began the grass and trees of Zi, to detect its cold, warm, flat, hot nature, identify its king, minister, Zuo, so that the righteousness, tasted a day and met seventy poisons, the God and the transformation of the, so the composition of the book on the treatment of the nation, and the road to medicine since the beginning of this"

At that time there was no herbal treatment, to see their subjects sick, as the boss of Shennong is naturally very worried. Worried about the people's worries, Shennong began to think, the nature of all things are mutually reinforcing, for the disease is not a way to cure? He paid attention to the grass and trees around him, and found their magical healing properties. So he made a bold decision to try these plants and trees himself. Of course, the process was not a smooth one. There were plants and trees that could cure diseases as well as those that could kill people. Shennong once encountered more than seventy kinds of poison in one day, but of course he miraculously dissolved them. So he wrote down the medicinal properties to treat the people's diseases, and the cause of medicine in China was born from then on.

II. Acupuncture treatment

Our old ancestors were really smart. In ancient times, when people were accidentally hit by some sharp and hard objects, such as stones, thorns and so on, on a certain part of the surface of the body, there would be an unexpected phenomenon of pain being alleviated. Ancient people began to consciously use some sharp stones to stab certain parts of the body or artificially puncture the body to make it bleed, in order to alleviate pain. Later, people carried out in-depth research on these acupuncture points, through acupuncture to dredge the meridians, regulating yin and yang. In order to achieve the therapeutic effect.

Acupuncture and moxibustion medicine was first described in the book "Yellow Emperor's Classic of Internal Medicine" over 2,000 years ago. The Yellow Emperor's Classic of Internal Medicine states:'Hidden cold produces fullness of disease, its treatment is moxibustion'It is the art of moxibustion, which describes in detail the form of nine needles and gives an extensive account of the theories and techniques of acupuncture and moxibustion.

III. Massage and Tuina

Massage Tuina is somewhat similar to acupuncture treatment. The technique of using the hands and fingers to cure diseases by continuous movements on the skin and muscle tissues of the human body, this method, is called massage therapy. Since massage favors the circulatory system and metabolism, it is safe and reliable for patients with general chronic diseases or excessive weakness.

It is recorded in the history of China that Bian Magpie, a famous doctor in the Qin Dynasty, once used massage therapy to treat the corpse of Prince Guo's syncope. The Qin Dynasty has been more than 2,000 years today, so it is clear that massage has a long history in China. China's earliest book on massage, when push the "Huangdi massage Jing" (10 volumes, see "Han Shu. Art and literature"), can be borrowed long dead. But in the existing classical medical book "Huangdi Neijing", many places, talking about massage.

Of course, in addition to these more scientific treatments there are also some, superstitious methods. In ancient times, people believed in the existence of ghosts and gods, and even thought that some diseases were the punishment of the gods for human beings. So they prayed to the gods, ate the ashes of incense burners, drank talismanic water and so on. Of course these must not be of much use. When you are sick, you should honestly see a doctor and drink medicine.

In ancient times, people can only be sick by God, and Chinese medicine Langzhong only when the big officials and the rich can be used, the ordinary people which have seen Langzhong, the emperor's life expectancy is very short, the imperial physician can not be faulted.

Ancient China's medical path was Chinese medicine. Although there is a clear distinction between modern Chinese medicine and Western medicine, ancient medical techniques and technology were not yet developed, and they were all based on herbal medicine. China has its own Chinese medicine prescription, and people in ancient times certainly took Chinese medicine when they were sick.