After eating a few mouthfuls of food and seeing that Tie Jun didn't mean to say anything, the old expert continued.
“Western medicine treats diseases that people have, while Chinese medicine treats people who have the disease.
Take your mother-in-law as an example. If she comes to me after being diagnosed with stomach cancer, I will have several treatment options for you to choose from.
Surgical resection must be the worst treatment plan I give. On the contrary, it is the most commonly used treatment method by Western medicine.
This is also something you need to remember. For serious illnesses, go to a big hospital, where the experts have rich clinical experience and have a variety of treatment methods.
Of course, the fact has happened, and there is no point in regretting it. We can only say that we have to buy lessons at a painful price.
So, as long as it is an operation, there will be risks, let alone such a major thoracotomy to remove the tumor.
For the patient, it counts as a success after getting off the operating table. Whether the incision is clean is another matter. If it recurs, it can be re-incision!
On the contrary, please forgive me and accept the change. You signed the contract, the risks have been told to you, and no one is forcing you.
From the perspective of Western medicine, the operation was still successful. I removed the tumor and cured the disease. If the person is gone, what does it have to do with me? I just treat the disease.
This is called treating diseases that people have. The focus is on the disease, not the person.
Does it sound very angry, but this is the reality, the surgeon will say, I tried my best, but as for the cause of death, it is a mystery."
Tie Jun gritted his teeth. What the old man said was the truth. The country has not yet issued a bill on medical malpractice identification. The scalpel is the judge's pen.
As a senior expert, if the old man can say this to him, he really treats him as his grandson. Otherwise, he would not be able to say such extreme things.
During the pause, the two of them drank another glass of wine.
"I have read all the information about your mother-in-law. She is very lucky and the operation was quite successful. After all, I was not present at the scene, so I can only judge this way.
But she was also very unfortunate. The hospital in her hometown did not provide any post-operative rehabilitation plan, and this was the shortcoming of Western medicine.
If it were me, I would take conservative treatment. At that time, your mother-in-law's physical condition allowed me to use Chinese medicine to stimulate her to form her own antibodies.
In one year, I dare not say that the tumor has completely shrunk, but I can guarantee that your mother-in-law will not be as bad as it is now. This is called caring for the sick person.
Speaking of Chinese medicine conditioning, let me talk about the difference between plant Chinese medicine and chemical Western medicine.
Let’s take your mother-in-law as an example and analyze this chemotherapy and allergies.
The chemical drugs used in chemotherapy not only eliminate tumors, but also kill cells in normal tissues, especially blood and lymphoid tissue cells that are vigorously developed in the human body.
These cells and tissues are an important immune defense system of the human body. If the human immune system is destroyed, other diseases will spread and cause serious consequences.
Your mother-in-law's vomiting, hair loss, epidermal tissue withering, and allergies are all common side effects of chemotherapy.
According to the hospital's conventional treatment method, the chemotherapy is to be stopped immediately and clinical observation is performed first, but you also know that it is equivalent to terminating the life of your mother-in-law.
You may say, then why not take anti-allergy medicine?
Because no one dares to take risks. In your mother-in-law's situation, adding any kind of chemical drug may make her fatal.
The ancients said that medicine is divided into three parts: poison. The key point, the ancients said, must be referring to Chinese herbal medicine. Is that okay?"
Tie Jun nodded, very depressed. He could only listen and had no qualifications to interrupt.
"Even pure plant-based traditional Chinese medicine is said to be 30% toxic. So, what about these chemical ingredients in Western medicine? Are they considered 70% toxic?"
Tie Jun nodded again, absolutely agreeing that many Western medicines have side effects, this is a fact.
"This truth is so simple, but it only applies to those who know medicine and the elderly. Young people are fearless and don't care whether it's poisonous or not!
Whatever harms the liver or kidneys, any drug dependence, or the excretion of drugs after a serious illness in the future, all should be ignored, as long as the current disease can be cured.
As a result, the stomach was cured, but the liver was injured. The liver was cured, but the kidneys were injured. Before the kidneys were cured, the stomach was irritated and perforated.
This is called one wrong step. If you make one wrong step after another, your health will only get worse and worse. If you add in bad living habits, how can you get better?
From this point of view, chemical drugs can never replace plant drugs, which is also the essential difference between the two kinds of drugs.
Also, there are no indicators for TCM treatment, and there are reference indicators for Western medicine treatment.
The meaning of this sentence is that traditional Chinese medicine adjusts the patient's living habits. It does not mean that the disease disappears when the indicators become normal after taking the medicine.
On the contrary, the judgment of Western medicine is very simple. After taking the medicine, the indicators are normal, even if it is over, there is no follow-up obligation for treatment.
Let’s talk about disease prevention.
The prevention advocated by Western medicine is early detection, but if it is discovered, it means that the disease has occurred. Taking the cancer hospital as an example, the disease will most likely be in the advanced stage.
This is not the case with traditional Chinese medicine. It advocates that minor illnesses can be treated and serious illnesses can be prevented. How to do this?
That is to develop good living habits, have a regular schedule, wash hands frequently, practice hygiene, and participate in physical exercise every day.
If you have to drink a lot of alcohol every day, smoke a little, stay up all night doing numbness, eat three times a day, and don't exercise at all, then you will be sick if you don't get it.
People, it’s useless to rely on anyone, you still have to rely on yourself.
We only have these few parts in our body. Don’t use strong medicine to cut it off. It’s easy to cut it off with one cut, but it can still grow back. We are not geckos and have the ability to regenerate.
Finally, I would like to borrow a saying from the ancients: The superior heals the country, the Chinese heals the people, and the inferior heals the disease.
Still remember what the chairman said: develop sports and enhance people’s physical fitness!
This is the best medicine. If you can't do it, then start with me and treat people first, but don't give yourself to Western medicine to treat diseases!"
The old expert was moved emotionally, and Tie Jun was also affected. He held his wine glass and was speechless for a long time.
While drinking and eating, Tie Jun even forgot what he was going to do, but it was the old expert who brought it up first.
"I don't know if you have found the answer. If you find it, tell Grandpa. If you have any ideas, don't be restrained and say whatever you want!"
What the old expert said today deeply touched Tie Jun. The embarrassing position of traditional Chinese medicine in the country is a kind of sadness for the Chinese people.
Thinking about later generations, Chinese medicine has been sought after in Western countries, leading some old Chinese medicine practitioners to travel across the ocean to develop.
In the next few decades, what will trouble China is not the economy, but the loss of talent. To put it bluntly, this is a helpless move. If you don't care about me, I can only find someone who cares about me.
Thinking of this, Tie Jun asked: "Grandpa, I have read your profile. You have studied abroad for four years. Why is it still listed as a traditional Chinese medicine?"
Unexpectedly, Tie Jun, who had been pondering for a long time, actually asked this question, and the old expert laughed.
"Haha, you are really special. Your thinking is different from others. I thought you were calculating remedies, but I didn't expect you to care about me."
"Hey, my thinking is quite jumpy, don't be surprised!"