Traditional Chinese medicine treatment needs a slow process, which usually takes five to seven days or even longer. Moreover, in different stages of disease development and different physical manifestations, prescriptions need to be adjusted in time.

Especially for some intractable diseases, Chinese medicine needs to explore slowly and adjust constantly to achieve the final desired effect. This is a process, and it is impossible to cure it so quickly.

Chinese medicine is good at conditioning the body and is suitable for chronic diseases. It will not endanger people's health soon, and this disease will be slowly treated by Chinese medicine.

But the ancient plague was highly contagious and spread quickly. Just like our epidemic this time, how many times is the number of new people added every day? This kind of acute disease can't be quickly suppressed by general Chinese medicine.

It needs the effective containment of western medicine and the slow conditioning of Chinese medicine to achieve the best effect.

So once the plague starts and spreads at a high speed, most people will still die before Chinese medicine can quickly adjust and suppress the disease.

Second, our Chinese medicine has been developing and perfecting until today.

Traditional Chinese medicine was not so perfect from the beginning, so it developed to what we call Shennong tasting a hundred herbs, Li Shizhen's Compendium of Materia Medica, and later famous doctors such as Zhang Zhongjing, and gradually developed to this day.

Before the development of Chinese medicine, a little cold, like our current cold and fever, would have killed people in ancient times.

Chinese medicine has also developed from scratch, just like our 5,000-year history in China. Therefore, there is no way to fight the plague from the beginning, and it is also a long process to discuss the prescription slowly later.

Third, the pathogen of each plague outbreak is different.

Every plague outbreak has a different origin. For example, we watch costume dramas, smallpox and chickenpox. In addition, I found plague, malaria and so on, for many reasons.

Therefore, it is not easy for us to prescribe a prescription for one plague at a time. But every time a plague is a new pathogen, it is necessary to start studying prescriptions again, so this process also leads to many deaths.

I can only hope that our medicine is more developed, vaccine research is faster and deaths are reduced.