Chapter 180: What is the Westernization of Traditional Chinese Medicine?

"Now let's talk about the effectiveness of the five acupoints, its effects are very extensive, here I will just briefly describe its surface, so that you can have a simple impression. Knowing the five elements of acupuncture points, you can try to use them in daily health care. For example, the Taiyuan acupoint of the lung meridian is the Yu acupoint, which belongs to the earth, and the lung meridian belongs to gold, which happens to be the "native gold", and the Shangqiu acupoint of the spleen meridian is the meridian acupoint, which belongs to gold, and the spleen meridian belongs to the earth, which is also "native gold". These two acupoints are used together to nourish the lungs and strengthen the spleen, and the effect is remarkable. Some people always say that they can't buy Shenling Baizhu Pills, and this Taiyuan and Shangqiu are free Shenling Baizhu Pills. ”

"I think you, the director, have experienced this. Wang Ming smiled at the director and nodded, he had already told the other party to use the method of massaging acupoints to cure his head disease, and now the effect is obviously good!

After hearing this, the director also stood up and nodded to everyone, indicating that what Wang Ming said was true!

"After learning how to use the Five Lost Acupoints, you can flexibly mix and match many free Chinese patent medicines. And it is the most authentic and non-toxic side drug. Don't worry, there are many acupuncture points, but you don't have to master them all at once, learn Chinese medicine, you must penetrate it little by little. The essence of Chinese medicine is a kind of thought, a kind of culture, a kind of spirit, and a kind of humanized science, which needs inspiration, comprehension, physical and mental integration, and more importantly, a broad mind. After Wang Ming finished speaking, he also said his feelings!

"Smack!"

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"Smack!"

When Wang Ming finished speaking, there was a sparse applause after a while, one person, two people. The three of them instantly seemed to have lit a fuse, and only a few people did not applaud, not because they didn't want to, because they were pointed by Wang Ming and couldn't move.

By this time, basically everyone present understood what Wang Ming was thinking, and they were also infected by Wang Ming.

"Professor Wang. I support the promotion of traditional Chinese medicine culture, but now that Chinese medicine is excessively Westernized, this problem cannot be solved all at once!" At this time, an administrator behind him stood up and asked Wang Ming.

His words silenced the audience. Even if they all agree to the reform of traditional Chinese medicine as soon as possible, the current problem is not so easy to solve, and the idea of westernization of traditional Chinese medicine has been deeply ingrained in these decades. It can't be changed overnight.

However, it is not so that everyone thinks that Chinese medicine is Westernized, they think that Chinese medicine is still the original Chinese medicine, and there is no problem of Westernization at all, and these people are the scholars who have been hindering the reform of Chinese medicine.

The reason is that they don't understand TCM fundamentally.

"Traditional Chinese medicine is a treasure in the excellent traditional culture of the Chinese nation, and it is the only traditional medicine within the scope of shijie that has reached a mature scientific level. Compared with the globalized Western medicine, its scientific concepts, conceptual categories, and theoretical thinking are also different. If traditional Chinese medicine is compared to a fruitful tree, then the literature, history, philosophy, especially philosophy in traditional Chinese culture are its roots, the basic scientific system represented by the "Yellow Emperor's Neijing" is its foundation, the clinical jishu system of syndrome differentiation and treatment represented by "Treatise on Typhoid Fever and Miscellaneous Diseases" is its main branch, and the treatment of internal medicine, surgery, gynecology and pediatrics, as well as its prescriptions and medicines, are its branches, flowers and leaves. Wang Ming nodded and motioned for the other party to sit down first. After the other party sat down, he said.

In the more than 100 years since the study of the West has spread to the East, traditional Chinese medicine has become the "hardest hit area" in traditional Chinese culture. Especially in the past 50 years, when the essential differences and attributes of Chinese medicine and Western medicine have not been clearly distinguished from the sources of philosophy and science, they have been influenced by modern scientism. As a result, traditional Chinese medicine has fallen into the misunderstanding of "westernization of traditional Chinese medicine", and it has not been able to extricate itself so far. This is a rare special case in the history of human culture and science, and it is also a major "cultural unjust, false and wrongful case" in China's modern history. Its typical characteristics are that "culture misunderstands culture, and science destroys science". For decades, this "cultural unjust, false and wrongful case" has been packaged under the slogans of "modernization", "standardization", "development" and "innovation". Serious consequences that cannot be ignored have been highlighted. It has directly led to the all-round distortion and disintegration of the basic scientific system of traditional Chinese medicine, as well as the clinical jishu system of syndrome differentiation and treatment. ”…,

Speaking of this, Wang Ming began to talk about the philosophy of Chinese medicine as if he were popularizing knowledge to those students: "Without philosophical thought, there would be no basic science of Chinese medicine; without the basic science of Chinese medicine, there would be no clinical standards of Chinese medicine; and Chinese medicine that has departed from the clinical standards will inevitably regress in the direction of empirical therapy more than 2,000 years ago." At present, the historical mission and the only choice before us is that in order to achieve the comprehensive rejuvenation of traditional Chinese medicine, we must follow the internal scientific laws of traditional Chinese medicine, abide by the purpose of the scientific outlook on development, and bid farewell to the westernization of traditional Chinese medicine wisely and decisively. ”

"Professor Wang, what is the Westernization of Chinese Medicine?" At this time, someone really stood up and asked. This man had come back from abroad, and he could not see anything wrong with the situation at home from the perspective of Western ideas. Regarding his question, Wang Ming did not show dissatisfaction, but smiled and asked the other party to sit down first, but when he said it, he became serious.

"If you want to know what the Westernization of Chinese medicine is, we must first start with the spread of modern scientism in China.

As you all know, since the Opium War in 1840, the declining Qing Dynasty has faced a double crisis of internal and external difficulties. Li Hongzhang called this double crisis "a great change unseen in 3,000 years." In the rush to deal with the "razing with the long skills of razing", the Chinese people also suffered from national cultural inferiority. With the spread of the increasingly fierce national cultural inferiority complex, in the eyes of the Chinese people, materials and sharp weapons, as well as modern science and jishu that produce materials and sharp tools, have increasingly risen to the most important pursuit goals. The traditional Chinese culture, especially the spirit, thoughts, values, and philosophy that are its core, has gradually been alienated and forgotten by people in the whipping and criticism again and again. Therefore, in the call of "comprehensive anti-tradition" and "smashing the Confucian shop" in the "May Fourth" New Culture Movement, the Western science that should be invited in is, of course, Western modern science and jishu. ”

Wang Ming paused for a moment and asked these people to recall the history they had learned.

"We are not opposed to the use of razing to control razing, nor are we opposed to the introduction of modern science from the West. However, in dealing with the dual crises of internal and external difficulties, it is all the more necessary to have the wisdom and open-mindedness of history and the overall situation. This kind of wisdom and open-mindedness is that when facing the current choice, we should look at the present from the historical dimension! In the face of each other's rise and fall, we need to compare the length and the short from the overall dimension. In these respects, Li Hongzhang and the leaders of the "May Fourth" New Culture Movement cannot help but give people regrets that they have taken care of one or the other. It should be noted here that when we mentioned modern science in the West, we always linked "modern" and "scientific" together. This is the hope that after the "May Fourth" New Culture Movement, we should see the "modern era" clearly from the perspective of history and the overall situation, and face up to "science". At this time, Wang Ming said with some righteous words. (Your support is my biggest motivation.) )