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Why do Western doctors reject Chinese medicine but prescribe many proprietary Chinese medicines?

Why do Western doctors reject Chinese medicine but prescribe many proprietary Chinese medicines?

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The questioner's question is analyzed in two ways:

First, why do Western doctors all reject Chinese medicine?


The person who asks this question is not a doctor, but a layman in the medical industry! I am a doctor of Western medicine, not only do not reject Chinese medicine, and very good Chinese medicine, before also allied to the idea of self-study of Chinese medicine, because in the university during the study period, the teacher to the medical students will be on the basic course of Chinese medicine. We also have books on basic Chinese medicine. And some Western doctors exclude Chinese medicine, is aimed at some of the phenomena of our medical environment, the level of Chinese medicine doctors in our country is too bizarre, no medical qualification is too much, only know one does not know the other is too much, in some remote markets and even never learned the Chinese doctor of the people, but also posing as a Chinese doctor indiscriminate practice of medicine, the patient has a life-threatening situation is also worse than the ordinary people to notice, if not regulated, may be faced with a very large legal! If left unchecked, they may face very great legal risks and do harm to others and themselves!

As a doctor or anyone else, Western medicine and Chinese medicine should not be excluded, but rather, when helping a patient, when Western medicine is not good enough, Chinese medicine happens to have a better approach, then Chinese medicine is recommended, i.e., taking the best of both worlds. I feel that it is more difficult to get started in Western medicine than in Chinese medicine! For example, Western medicine in school for several years, if you do not enter the clinical, only learn the theory, immediately to the patient is difficult to complete. Chinese medicine is relatively simple to start, with the teacher to learn the art of 3 months, according to the prescription to the patient to prescribe and grasp the medicine, but to put the Chinese medicine, or very difficult. But a rejection of Western medicine and superstitious Chinese medicine is not good, and sometimes will pay the price of health pain.We should look at things from a developmental perspective, including medicine, no matter Chinese or Western medicine, to remove the dross and take the essence to serve the patients is the purpose of the doctor!

Second, why do Western doctors prescribe proprietary Chinese medicines?

As a Western medical doctor, I am deeply impressed by the inadequacy of Western medicine, the lack of clarity about the causes of some diseases and the lack of some medicines, while Chinese medicine is profound and has unique diagnostic and therapeutic advantages in the diagnosis and treatment of some diseases. I often prescribe proprietary Chinese medicines to my patients (with good results). Western doctors do not specialize in clinical Chinese medicine diagnosis and treatment, learning less knowledge of Chinese medicine, so they will not prescribe the soup prescription.


It would be much better if a doctor specializing in the integration of Chinese and Western medicines has more skills than the average doctor in treating the sick and saving lives. For example, there is a western surgeon who has been working on the operating table for more than 10 years, but he just had so much back pain that he finally had to give up his surgical work. His back pain was caused by renal prolapse, but the western doctors did not know how to treat renal prolapse, but Chinese medicine can, and the efficacy of Chinese medicine in treating renal prolapse is also good, this western surgeon specialized in Chinese medicine after giving up his surgical work, and finally became a famous expert in combining Chinese and western medicines at home and abroad!

It is a laughing stock that Western doctors dare to prescribe proprietary Chinese medicines.

One, unless this Western medicine for the 80's before the exposure to the group of Chinese medicine training and so on. There is also the case of those who graduated with a degree in Integrative Medicine.

Secondly, why would he dare to prescribe proprietary Chinese medicines to others when he does not have any basic knowledge of Chinese medicine? How bold is he? Who gave him the guts?

Thirdly, proprietary Chinese medicines are actually a lot of things. If you do not have a little foundation in Chinese medicine, you should never prescribe it indiscriminately. This will lead to misjudgment of the survival of the problem.

Fourth, in fact, Chinese medicine has now been so-called Western medicine, sidelined as a fatherless and motherless love child.

However, there are specialties, so please be sure not to overstep your bounds when it comes to expertise.

Fifth, in the future, if I have time, I will write a special Guan Xi method of using proprietary Chinese medicines as well as contraindications.

The use of proprietary medicines is definitely not as simple as it seems, and he must have specialized knowledge.

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You guys just keep on destroying Chinese medicine, just like in the era when foreigners invaded China, some people scrambled to be the first to sell their country! The development of Chinese medicine to the present has its own problems, but mainly more people with malicious intent in the denigration, and so on when Chinese medicine is not the name of the Chinese, is not your purpose has been achieved? The country in a little bit of correction, in vigorously promoting the development of Chinese medicine, is because Western medicine also left us too many hidden problems, if the two balance, complement each other's strengths and weaknesses that is the ultimate goal to be achieved! Abuse of antibiotics, vaccines ...... These are bloody lessons, know a little Chinese medicine from childhood to the family moxibustion ah, massage ah, is not it can enhance immunity? Why is the life expectancy and height of Japanese people increasing year by year, is it because of western medicine? I really do not know what is in your head, foreign countries in the crazy Chinese medicine resources, but you are constantly black, is it the Chinese? Are you Chinese? Or are you so-called Chinese with a mission?

After reading a lot of comments, I can't help but feel some sadness in my heart. Chinese medicine, a national essence that has been passed down for thousands of years, has been sprayed as useless.

As a dietitian who knows more or less everything about medicine, here's a personal opinion.

First of all, as a Chinese, we should look at Chinese medicine with the right perspective, the reason why Chinese medicine can be passed down to the present day, there must be a place where Chinese medicine is awesome, Chinese medicine in the whole of East Asia has a very far-reaching influence, especially South Korea and Japan, and some aspects of it even surpassed China.

On the difference between Chinese medicine and Western medicine, Chinese medicine is concerned about balance, Chinese medicine theory that the reason why people get sick is because of an imbalance in a certain area caused by the Chinese medicine is concerned about conditioning, harmonization, cultivation-oriented, so that Chinese medicine Chinese medicine is people-oriented, repairing the damaged 'yuan qi', the body's qi and blood smooth and naturally healthy, thousands of years of the theory is very stable, and naturally considered to be no progress, no development. Western medicine, on the other hand, is concerned with confrontational treatment, microscopic theories, and all the things that cannot be seen are not recognized, such as the meridians that Chinese medicine is concerned with. Western medicine is about confrontation, for example, directly using one kind of bacteria to kill another kind of bacteria, or directly removing the damaged cells, but Western medicine often use one argument to overthrow another argument, very unstable, and need to continue to do research, do the argument. It seems that Western medicine what surgery, radiotherapy chemotherapy is very high, in fact, compared to the theory is behind Chinese medicine.

When comparing Chinese and Western medicine, Western medicine is fast and effective, but the side effects are also obvious. Chinese medicine is slower and less effective, but some diseases can be cured.

In recent years, the reason why Chinese medicine has been criticized, the reason do not care about the following points: First of all, the fast pace of life, after the disease can not wait, patients are eager to see immediate results, the slow conditioning of traditional Chinese medicine is simply unacceptable, the medicine a few times do not feel the change in the loss of patience, and directly to the Western medicine injection bottles, and soon alleviate the situation, over time, thus forming the concept of Chinese medicine is not as good as the Western medical concept. Secondly, we encountered a lot of entry-level Chinese medicine practitioners, charlatans and so on, affecting the patient's trust in Chinese medicine. I do not know, Western medicine is also a very high level of medical malpractice, but the medical malpractice of Western medicine is taken for granted, and Chinese medicine accidents are Chinese medicine is wrong, in the final analysis, in addition to the lack of understanding and self-confidence, the main or since the modern era of foreign pander to the foreign mentality caused by a large number of Western publicity is also a certain relationship between Western medicine, because the Western countries and Western medicine and science linked to the Chinese medicine is considered to be a backward synonym for Chinese medicine, and so the people of the country! People cloud also cloud, coupled with some ill-intentioned Western mouthpiece public figures, such as the stream of Ark's malicious guidance, so now directly affected by the loss of confidence in traditional Chinese medicine, as the saying goes, the wall fell down, Chinese medicine has become the object of attack by many people.

Another reason lies in the lack of senior Chinese medicine practitioners, training a professional Chinese medicine practitioners need a lot of energy and time, nowadays society is impatient, the pursuit of material exceeds other pursuits, the same patients, the cost of a surgery of thousands of dollars, while the Chinese medicine only a few money, not to mention that the effect is also slow, do not get the recognition of the patient's natural also affects their own reputation, and also can not earn money. In the long run, really will be Chinese medicine no disease can be cured.

China's annual medical expenditure has risen sharply, a large part of which is 'credited' to Western medicine, antibiotic abuse, overmedication, etc. Fortunately, the national leadership recognizes the seriousness of the problem and has given important instructions for the development of Chinese medicine hospitals. At the same time, the country is also being propagated to pay attention to nutritional conditioning, to prevent problems before they occur, and to reduce the dependence on medicine.

In short, whether it is Chinese medicine or Western medicine, we should complement each other's strengths and learn from each other, we should see each other's strengths instead of maliciously attacking each other, and we should all contribute to the health of mankind! Sincerely wish: no disease in the world!!!!

Finally, a helpless and true paragraph: in ancient times, the pharmacy will hang a couplet: I wish the world people are not sick, rather than the shelf of drugs born of dust. Banner: Peace in the world. Nowadays, the drugstore will hang a large banner: buy 10 free five, more buy more free, buy medicine full 128 yuan to send 10 eggs ......

Prescribing PCPs only for kickbacks, to hear my son tell it.

Said "Western doctors are very exclusionary of Chinese medicine" is blind nonsense. This old man once knew an old doctor (has passed away), Liaoning people, young army, in the army as a health worker, after liberation was sent to Harbin Medical University for further study, after graduation into the official Western medicine. Transferred to the local hospital as a doctor, he also self-taught Chinese medicine.

In the late 1960s, he and I were placed in the same commune, and he worked as a doctor in the commune hospital. Once I was sick, high fever + swelling, he used western medicine to reduce my fever and swelling, judged that I was nephritis, told me to go to the provincial city hospital laboratory diagnosis. I went to a big hospital in the provincial city and was diagnosed with acute nephritis. At that time, there was no effective treatment in western medicine and I was advised to see a traditional Chinese medicine practitioner. When I came back and told him the diagnosis, he prescribed Chinese medicine for me. After taking a dozen packets of Chinese medicine, I was cured. 48 years have passed without any relapse. Now that he has passed away and I am over 80 years old, I miss him so much.

Decades of personal experience, feel that Western medicine and Chinese medicine have their own shortcomings and strengths, to promote the integration of Chinese and Western medicine is very right. For some people now repeatedly discredit the remarks of Chinese medicine, extremely disgusted.

Why do Western doctors all reject Chinese medicine?

In response to this question, I have to say something objective, not all Western medical doctors reject Chinese medicine, only a very small number of Western medical doctors are against Chinese medicine.

Chinese medicine and Western medicine are two different systems, Western medicine, also known as modern medicine, it is the use of advanced medical equipment for the diagnosis and treatment of disease science, relative to Chinese medicine, it is the development of disease mechanisms, the pharmacological effects of drugs more thorough research, especially in the pharmacological effects of drugs, the mechanism of action, and the adverse effects of the study of the more in-depth in the treatment of the symptomatic, fast-acting characteristics. Chinese medicine is a traditional medicine created by Chinese Han Chinese working people, which is a discipline that studies human physiology, pathology, diagnosis and prevention of diseases. Chinese medicine has the holistic view of "unity of heaven and man" and "correspondence between heaven and man" and the characteristics of diagnosis and treatment. In treating diseases, the main purpose is to treat the human body as a whole, rather than looking at a pathological phenomenon in isolation, and the treatment is not to treat the headache and the foot, and the traditional Chinese medicine is slow in taking effect, and the efficacy of the medicine is slow in taking effect, and the efficacy of the medicine is fast. Moreover, the onset of action of traditional Chinese medicine is slow, and the effect of medicine is relatively mild and the course of treatment is long. The research on Chinese medicines is not as clinical as that on pharmaceuticals, and controlled trials have been designed. The mechanism of action, pharmacological effects and adverse reactions have not been as thoroughly researched as those of Western medicines, and even the study of the composition of Chinese medicines is not very clear, because the composition of Chinese medicines is really too complex. It is because of the above characteristics of Chinese medicine, some people who advocate Western medicine are very excluded from Chinese medicine, that Chinese medicine is a trick to fool people, that Chinese medicine is even the composition of Chinese medicines, pharmacological effects and mechanisms of action have not been studied clearly on the talk of curing disease is to fool people. Coupled with the emergence from time to time of clinical incidents of adverse reactions, liver damage, kidney damage, and so on, the rejection of Chinese medicine has become even stronger. Undeniably, the jianghu is indeed some crooks are the use of pseudo-Chinese medicine to cure the sick to save people may have caused serious consequences, we can not deny that the adverse effects of Chinese medicine is also objective, this Western medicine is the same as by its dual nature of the decision. Chinese medicine is a long course of treatment, the effect is not as obvious as Western medicine, which is also a reason for Western medicine to reject Chinese medicine. To be fair, Chinese medicine or especially the significance of the existence of a lot of difficult diseases and modern sub-health, many chronic diseases or have to rely on traditional Chinese medicine to regulate, although the course of treatment is relatively long, but if you can adhere to, you can also receive very good results.

Why do some Western doctors reject Chinese medicine but prescribe a lot of Chinese medicine?

Some difficult cases, with the theory of Western medicine is not explained, the application of Chinese medicine theory, some proprietary Chinese medicine has its unique advantages, not only in the role of the same as Western medicine, but also in the adverse effects of less than Western medicine. Of course, there are some Western doctors prescribe proprietary Chinese medicine because of the slow action of proprietary Chinese medicine, that is not obvious to eat the effect of the adverse effects are not obvious, to people often say that "eating does not kill" health care products to look at. Of course, there may also be profit factors, this factor will not say more!

The above is only a personal opinion, not as a basis for the use of medication, please use the medication under the guidance of a physician, any questions or views are welcome to leave a comment at the bottom of the article.

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Exclusion stems from a lack of understanding. When I was in school, in addition to the courses in my TCM specialty, physiology, pathology, anatomy, diagnostics and so on were all required courses in Western medicine. That is to say, nowadays, students graduated from Chinese medicine colleges are bound to know western medicine, while students graduated from western medicine colleges do not necessarily know Chinese medicine. The theory of Chinese medicine is still relatively complex, not to study three to five years will not understand. And there are still many people in the community who are fraudulent in the name of Chinese medicine, to a certain extent, to the Chinese medicine black, so it is understandable that purely Western doctors have rejected. I personally do not think there is no need to comment on who is good and who is bad, in fact, each has its own strengths, with the development of the eyes to see. Modern medicine is the integration of medicine, Chinese medicine doctors also take pictures to see laboratory tests, Western professors are also using Chinese medicinal preparations, we need to work together to make Chinese medicine inserted into the wings of science and technology, so that Western medicine has more means of treatment, and work together to create a modern medicine with Chinese characteristics!

It is not Western medicine that rejects Chinese medicine in the first place, but Chinese medicine that encircles Western medicine in the first place.

During the Qing Dynasty, Western medicine was still very weak, and Chinese medicine began to encircle Western medicine.

There was a catchphrase at the time.

Chinese medicine is orthodox medicine and Western medicine is evil medicine.

It means that Chinese medicine is real medicine and Western medicine is fraudulent medicine, telling people not to see Western medicine.

After the liberation, Chinese medicine practitioners have always claimed to be non-toxic and free of side effects, attacking Western medicines for their great side effects and terrorizing the masses not to consult Western medical practitioners.

In the 1980s, when my mother went back to her hometown to visit her family, she was persuaded by those peasant relatives in turn to tell my mother not to take western medicine to lower her blood pressure.

For more than a hundred years, Western medicine has thrived under the heavy siege of Chinese medicine.

Chinese medicine began to decline, so they backtracked and said that Western medicine had rejected Chinese medicine.

The Chinese Medicine Hospital, established in 1956, is a purely Chinese medicine hospital, from the leadership to the staff, and there is no question of Western medicine rejecting Chinese medicine.

Quite the contrary, it is all the Langzhongs who realized that Chinese medicine could not adapt to the needs of the market economy and took the initiative to move towards Western medicine hospitals.

All my life I have only heard countless people attacking Western medicine, I have not heard any Western doctor attacking Chinese medicine.

The main critics of TCM now are science writers and the awakened Chinese people.

By prescribing proprietary Chinese medicines, Western doctors are not recognizing that Chinese medicine works.

Anyone who works in a hospital knowsWestern medicine cures diseases, Chinese medicine makes moneyThe subterfuge.

The national health insurance only cares about western medicine and western drugs. All tertiary hospitals are computerized and networked, so doctors cannot prescribe more western medicines. And Chinese medicine does not belong to the jurisdiction of the medical insurance, the doctor exploits the loophole, prescribing more proprietary Chinese medicines.

Proprietary Chinese medicines are inherently expensive, so the commission is also high. Patients from outpatient clinics or hospitals prescribed drugs, according to the cost of valuation: proprietary Chinese medicines accounted for two thirds, while Western drugs accounted for only one third.

The use of medicines to support medical treatment is actually the use of Chinese medicines to support medical treatment.

If they were hospital employees or family members they would not prescribe PCPs.

Doctors will not prescribe pCms if the patients ask for no pCms.

Western doctors prescribing proprietary Chinese medicines are actually Western doctors fattening up Chinese medicine practitioners.

The proprietary Chinese medicines prescribed by Western medical practitioners account for 70% of the share of Chinese medicines, which is a greater contribution than that made by Chinese medical practitioners, and Chinese medicine fans are not only ungrateful to Western medical practitioners, but are also full of opinions.

First of all it is not that all western doctors reject Chinese medicine, it is just that there are some theories, practices and bases of Chinese medicine that are not yet accepted by most people. Having studied Western medicine for so many years, I am also able to see the effects of some of the TCM. For example, nowadays, in the treatment of the sequelae of cerebrovascular disease, all Western hospitals have widely accepted the measures of acupuncture and physiotherapy.

Proprietary Chinese medicines (pCms) are widely recognized formulas in traditional Chinese medicine (TCM). Compared with other more individualized treatments, it is easy for everyone to see the effect and the side effects are controllable, so after a period of validation, they are also accepted by Western medicine. Objectively speaking, the pCms that we usually use have undergone a lot of practical verification, but in fact, the total number of pCms is not much, especially in cancer treatment, which is still dominated by surgery, radiotherapy and chemotherapy, and there is no pCm that can be used as the leading means of cancer treatment at present.

My biggest question about Chinese medicine actually lies in the summary and exchange of side effects. After such a long period of accumulation, we actually all know that Chinese medicine also has side effects, and the resulting liver and kidney damage is often very serious. However, at present, most Chinese medicines are not described in the instructions, which is a great hidden danger and patient irresponsibility.

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