Regarding Chinese medicine, the topic may be "Zhong". To many people, this is inviolable. However, whether as a science or as a public policy involving the life and health of more than a dozen people, Chinese medicine must stand the test and stand the blame. People who are superstitious about Chinese medicine often have the following misunderstandings:
First, Chinese medicine has a history of thousands of years, and has been protecting China people from generation to generation, so it must be safe and effective.
In fact, how long the history of Chinese medicine is and whether it is safe and effective are two irrelevant issues. I believe that the history of witchcraft in China is not shorter than that of traditional Chinese medicine. Can it be effective just because it exists for a long time?
Maybe some friends will ask, if Chinese medicine is ineffective, why can it last for thousands of years? Just because our ancestors didn't have a better way. For example, malaria, the most common disease in ancient times, has been treated by ancient medical skills, but almost all of them are effective. It was not until the introduction of western antibiotics that malaria was eradicated in China.
You know, most parts of the earth have not adopted the theory and therapy of traditional Chinese medicine, which has been spread to this day. Looking through China's history books, we can see that there have been countless plagues in China for thousands of years, each time using human remains as pillows. How can Chinese medicine help?
Second, so many people in China are still using Chinese medicine, which must be useful.
This logic is also ridiculous. No matter how many people use Chinese medicine, it can only prove that they believe in Chinese medicine, but not that it is useful. You must prove that so many people believe that Chinese medicine has scientific basis, not blind obedience. For most of human history, people believed that the sun revolved around the earth. Is it really just because there are too many suns that the sun goes around the earth?
Third, Chinese medicine is very useful. Take Chinese medicine every time you catch a cold, and you will get well soon.
Both colds and oral ulcers are self-limiting diseases. Unless the body's immune function is low or extremely weak, the average person can recover within a week even without treatment. How many doses of Chinese medicine have you taken, and your cold will be fine. This only constitutes a chronological order and cannot be judged as a causal relationship.
If a rainbow appeared in the sky the day before your cold, can I say that it cured your cold? If you want to make sure that your cold is cured by Chinese medicine, you must prove that if you, or someone with the same cold as you, don't take these Chinese medicines, your cold will not get better. This requires large-scale controlled trials, and the most criticized thing about Chinese medicine is the lack of convincing controlled trials.
Fourth, Chinese medicine is a natural ingredient, which is safer; Western medicine is a chemical preparation, so it is toxic to human body.
A: Chinese medicine is not so-called "all-natural". Most traditional Chinese medicines have to be manually collected and processed, and then taken after artificial compatibility, which is mixed with manual intervention. Unless cattle and sheep eat grass directly, "all nature" is a slogan.
Even if it is pure natural, it is not necessarily safer. Guanyin soil is also pure natural. Why don't you eat a few Jin? Cobra is also pure natural, dare to be bitten?
Most western medicines have side effects, but as long as they are found, they are listed in the instructions. Traditional Chinese medicine and Chinese patent medicine also have many side effects, such as Akebia manshuriensis, which can cause renal failure, but most of the side effects of traditional Chinese medicine and Chinese patent medicine are only marked "unclear", that is to say, there are no side effects?
Chinese medicine and western medicine are genetically different, so Chinese medicine cannot be required by western standards.
It is a general and simple method to summarize these two medical systems with the differences between China and the West, which is far from accurate. Western medicine should be called modern medicine. The use of natural animal and plant materials to treat diseases in the west has a long history, and pseudoscience such as bloodletting therapy has also been popular.
If you think that Chinese medicine cannot be verified by the method of verifying western medicine, that is, double-blind test, please provide a more scientific method to prove that Chinese medicine is really effective, safe and controllable. If Chinese medicine is packaged as a mysterious and evidence-based system, it means that once you have a license to practice Chinese medicine, doctors can treat as they please.
This situation is obviously not what all parties want to see, and I am afraid it is not the original intention of the current policy to encourage the development of Chinese medicine.