Lin Yuan shook his head and smiled bitterly: "Ms. Rui, the loss of some secret recipes of Chinese medicine in China cannot be described as a small loss. I can responsibly say that this loss is a great loss to Chinese medicine. But I think,
This kind of loss cannot shake the foundation of traditional Chinese medicine, that’s all.”
You must know that the foundation of traditional Chinese medicine has been accumulated over thousands of years. One prescription or hundreds of prescriptions are just a drop in the ocean to the giant of traditional Chinese medicine.
No matter how magical a prescription is, it will never be irreplaceable.
Take Lin Yuan’s ancestral Xuanming Wan as an example. This is a very valuable prescription accumulated by the ancestors of the Lin family after several generations of research.
However, if Xuanshengwan no longer exists, will traditional Chinese medicine decline? Obviously it cannot.
Moreover, as long as there is Chinese medicine theory here, there will be countless Chinese medicine colleagues doing research, and sooner or later they will crack the prescriptions that once existed, or find alternative prescriptions.
Traditional Chinese medicine is a monumental symbol of Chinese civilization. Like various schools of thought in China, it has played a very important role in Chinese civilization.
Overall, Chinese medicine is a traditional school of thought with a unique ideological outlook. It has to be admitted that in the early days of the development of Chinese medicine, it was mixed with some questionable things such as blessings and divination.
In ancient Chinese characters, there is a big word "witch" in the middle of the word "medicine". For a long historical period, it is a fact that no one can deny that witch doctors are independent of each other. Even in the Tang Dynasty, there was a "Zhu You" in the medical field.
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What is commendable is that in the long historical development of the ancients, the mainstream traditional Chinese medicine eliminated things like Zhuyou divination from traditional Chinese medicine, and gradually formed a more professional and pure discipline that specializes in treating diseases and saving people.
You know, Chinese people have always respected traditions and ancestors. Being able to slowly eliminate things that have been passed down for thousands of years, for this rigor, Chinese medicine should be given a lot of points.
It is said that the thinking of traditional Chinese medicine is idealistic, but Lin Yuan does not think so.
Lin Yuan believes that traditional Chinese medicine has an idealistic component, but overall, it is a system of thought derived from reverence for heaven and earth, that is, reverence for nature.
Such a system can be found everywhere in ancient Chinese civilization. In other words, the ancient Chinese people’s understanding of the world was full of a grand worldview.
Due to the limitations of the era at that time, some phenomena could not be explained, so some idealistic and metaphysical theories emerged.
Someone once studied that the biggest difference between Eastern and Western civilizations lies in the difference in focus. The main reason why things such as logic and physics, which are the foundation of contemporary ideological systems, can appear in the West but not in the East is that the East and West
People observe the world from different angles.
Aristotle observed some daily behaviors, so he could base the logic of people's behavior on daily object movements, which laid the foundation of Western disciplines.
And when you go to the East, take a look at the "Book of Changes", which is known as the first of all the scriptures. The opening chapter of the Qian hexagram is that the sky is healthy, and a gentleman is constantly striving for self-improvement. Easterners, in fact, Chinese people, see the vast sky of the universe at first glance, and then
Kun, that is, the earth, carries virtues and benefits all things.
In such a context, the embarrassing problem faced by Eastern thought is that there is not enough observational knowledge to fill this huge theoretical system. This has resulted in a huge, gap-like strong contrast between Eastern civilization and Western civilization.
The contrast between Eastern and Western civilizations is actually roughly the difference between Chinese and Western medicine.
Western medicine focuses on clinical trials, that is to say, for any disease, past experimental data or clinical data are used as the golden rule, and a complete set of treatment mechanisms is determined based on digital cases that have occurred.
The treatment of traditional Chinese medicine is completely case-by-case. It is believed that the pathogenesis of each person may be completely different, and the response mechanism of the human body is also very different. Therefore, special emphasis is placed on the diagnosis of each person, and then syndrome differentiation and treatment.
It should be said that traditional Chinese medicine and Western medicine each have their own strengths, strengths, and weaknesses. From a diagnostic point of view, the diagnostic conclusions drawn by relying on medical devices and previous clinical data are obviously not as good as traditional Chinese medicine.
It is more scientific to treat every patient as an individual case.
Traditional Chinese medicine's diagnosis of individual cases relies on the doctor's personal feelings. You must know that personal feelings are often affected by many factors. In a sense, people tend to choose to believe in data and feelings. This is also the case.
One reason why contemporary people believe in Western medicine.
In Lin Yuan's view, there are huge differences in the Department of Traditional Chinese Medicine, each with its own characteristics. One cannot be said to be better than the other, let alone one to be superior. Both have something to learn from the other. If you think that Chinese and Western medicine
If water and fire are incompatible, or even impossible to communicate with each other, it will be a tragedy for the entire medical community.
Rui Man nodded repeatedly and asked with a smile: "Mr. Lin, what you said is a bit pessimistic. I don't know much about the situation of traditional Chinese medicine, and Western medicine has entered the era of computer-controlled nanorobots entering the human body for treatment. Although this
It is still in its infancy, but the future prospects are very bright. Under such circumstances, do you think Chinese medicine will still have the capital to compete with Western medicine?"
"Haha, Ms. Rui, no matter when, whether Easterners or Westerners, there will be a consensus in the end, that is, the more development, the more cautious people's understanding of traditional Chinese medicine will be. Ms. Rui, you probably know that Westerners currently have a point of view
, believing that the ultimate of science is theology, Western medicine and Chinese medicine may also end up developing like this."
Rui Man pondered for a moment and said: "Mr. Lin, from your words, I can hear the incomparable confidence. May I ask, where does your confidence come from? Is it similar to what you said about the development of science to its limit, which is theology?
Is this the limit of thinking?”
"Haha, I will not infer the future based on the standards of ideological development."
Lin Yuan gave Rui Man an example of some different methods adopted by Chinese and Western medicine when dealing with patients' unavoidable pain.
Just like a major surgery, the patient suffers unimaginable pain.
During the operation, Western medicine will use anesthesia to relieve the patient's pain. However, after the operation is completed, the unimaginable pain will make the patient feel like he is in pain.
Western medicine is powerless to do anything about it and can only allow this to happen.
But recently, some researchers in Western medicine have discovered that using Chinese acupuncture techniques during and after surgery can greatly relieve patients' pain.
Moreover, during the post-surgery recovery process, some health-care dietary and medicinal treatments of traditional Chinese medicine have a very miraculous effect on the recovery of patients.
Currently, some of the top research institutions in the United States have begun research on clinical acupuncture surgery, and receive a large number of scientific research funds every year.
This shows that while Chinese medicine is learning from Western medicine, Western medicine is also absorbing valuable nutrients from Chinese medicine.
Lin Yuan smiled and said: "Ms. Rui, what I see is that Chinese and Western medicine are constantly influencing each other, and in the end, there will be a process of relative integration. This is the general trend, and I am not predicting it randomly."
"Mr. Lin, if this is the case, then Chinese medicine should actively interact with Western medicine. Why did you talk about returning to tradition at the Xinglin Conference?"
"This is a very complicated issue, because Chinese medicine has gone through a very painful process from the late Qing Dynasty to the present. In more than a hundred years, Chinese medicine has lost too many things and been suppressed too much.
It’s even a matter of life and death. Ms. Rui, your knowledge is broad enough. May I ask, how much do you know about Chinese medicine?”
Rui Man smiled sheepishly and said, "Mr. Lin, before I listened to your explanation, I thought I knew a lot about Chinese medicine. But after listening to your words, I realized how much I knew about Chinese medicine.
It’s superficial. Indeed, Chinese medicine has even reached the edge of pseudoscience in people’s minds. Is this the reason why you advocate that Chinese medicine return to tradition?”
"Yes, Chinese medicine is powerless, and Chinese medicine practitioners are unshirkable, but there are also other complex reasons. If we want the public to have an objective understanding of Chinese medicine, we must return Chinese medicine to its original appearance. Myths about Chinese medicine and demonization of Chinese medicine are both
It is a huge harm to traditional Chinese medicine. Returning to tradition, returning to the origin, and showing people their true colors is a scientific and prudent attitude."
Rui Man nodded, thought for a while and said: "Mr. Lin Yuan, I would like to do another interview so that you can connect with our audience live so that there can be an interaction. Do you accept this arrangement?"
"This..." Lin Yuan suddenly remembered a similar program he had seen. A host and an expert were promoting products. No matter how you looked at it, it looked like they were trying to cheat money.
"It's like this, Mr. Lin Yuan, after our program was broadcast, the response was very good. Many people called our program team's hotline and asked if there is a sequel. Haha, our program has become a TV series, very
The audience hopes to see something extended."
"Okay, I will take over this arrangement. Ms. Rui, you won't let me do some promotion and publicity, right?"
"Don't worry, Mr. Lin, we are a regular CCTV program and will never ask you to do anything else in the program. I would like to explain to you that in our talk show, please do not insert your own implants.
If you enter an advertisement, you will be blocked directly."
Lin Yuan was relieved at once. Nowadays, the programs produced, especially those related to medicine, have become beyond recognition. They are either advertisements or promotions. Lin Yuan does not want to be such a person.