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Hu Zhengzhi asked: "President, now that the dispute between Chinese and Western medicine is known throughout the country, and all newspapers have joined the discussion, what position should we hold in Ta Kung Pao?" ”

Zhou He smiled: "What is your position?" ”

"Regardless of Chinese medicine and Western medicine, those who can cure diseases are good doctors, and those who cannot cure diseases are quacks." Hu Zhengzhi said without thinking.

"Hahaha," Zhou Hexuan laughed, "this is a wonderful theory, so let's report it like this." ”

Hu Zhengzhi said helplessly: "If you report like this, you will definitely be considered to be making peace." ”

The two were discussing, when suddenly Liao Yaquan knocked on the door and said, "President, Dr. Ding is here." ”

"Invite him in!" Zhou Hexuan said.

Ding Guorui walked into the office on crutches, held a few pieces of manuscript paper in his hand and said: "Mingcheng, this is the article I wrote, you can help publish it!" ”

The Ministry of Health's "abolition of traditional Chinese medicine case" is really not authentic.

In the absence of a single TCM practitioner attending the meeting, a group of Western doctors passed a proposal to abolish TCM, completely treating state organs as tools of struggle and government decrees and bills as child's play.

Those decision-makers, have they thought about the number of Western medicine in the country after the hasty abolition of traditional Chinese medicine? Are the number of hospitals sufficient? What should people do if they can't find a doctor to see a doctor? What about TCM workers across the country? What about the medicinal herb merchants across the country? What about the country's medicine farmers? Is imported Western medicine enough to treat Chinese?

The bureaucrats of the Republic of China shouted loudly, what is the respect for science, what is the pursuit of progress, what is the rejection of decadence...... When making major decisions, they don't think about the consequences, and they often mess around with a pat on the head.

No, Ding Guorui, who advocates the integration of traditional Chinese and Western medicine, was angered, and he jumped out to write an article to fight back.

Zhou Hexuan carefully read Ding Guorui's article, and the old gentleman was relatively calm. He first praised the scientific nature of Western medicine, pointed out the shortcomings of Chinese medicine, then discussed the merits of Chinese medicine, and finally rebuked the arrogance of Western medicine.

Zhou Hexuan invited Ding Guorui to sit down, and said with a smile: "The old gentleman's article is very well written, and Ta Kung Pao agreed to help publish it." ”

Ding Guorui said angrily: "Western medicine deceives people too much this time, we must fight to the end!" ”

Hu Zhengzhi reassured: "The old gentleman is angry, this matter can be reversed." ”

"It's difficult," Ding Guorui shook his head and sighed, "The officials of the Ministry of Health are all Western doctors, and they use government power to suppress Chinese medicine practitioners such as us. ”

Zhou Hexuan said with a smile: "Mr. Sun Yat-sen also advocates civil rights, and this time the Chinese medicine community can try the power of civil rights." ”

"It can only be like this," Ding Guorui said helplessly, "The Chinese medicine circles and Chinese medicine circles in Beiping and Tianjin have already sent representatives to the south to petition. ”

Traditional Chinese medicine may not be powerful, but Chinese herbal medicine merchants are very good.

This "abolition of traditional Chinese medicine case" is completely cutting off the roots of those medicinal herb merchants, and it is strange that they don't jump up and make trouble.

The matter soon turned into a struggle between Chinese and Western medicine and a struggle between political factions.

The Kuomintang elders are pro-TCM, while Wang Zhaoming's KMT reshuffle is anti-TCM, while the Feng Yuxiang faction is neutral – the health minister is Feng Yuxiang's man.

Initially, the medicinal herb merchants joined forces with the National Chamber of Commerce to put pressure on the government in the name of the business community, hoping to use the power of the Kuomintang elders to attack Wang Zhaoming's reshuffle faction, which advocated the abolition of traditional Chinese medicine, so as to bring the Ministry of Health controlled by Feng Yuxiang to its knees.

The veteran faction of the Kuomintang took advantage of the situation and used the power of the Chamber of Commerce to launch an attack on the Wang faction, and at the same time wanted to pull down the Feng Yuxiang faction, which controlled the Ministry of Health.

The Kuomintang New Political Science Department, which supports Chang Kaishen, has the same interests as the Kuomintang veterans, and both want to get rid of the Wang faction and the Feng Yuxiang faction. As a result, the Shanghai Chamber of Commerce and the General Association of Merchants and People, who have always been hostile to each other, actually united to support traditional Chinese medicine this time.

Immortals fight!

From this dispute between Chinese and Western medicine, we can see the extent to which the factional struggle within the Kuomintang has become chaotic.

In addition to the New Politics Department and the reorganization faction, there are also CC factions led by Chen Guofu and Chen Lifu. However, this time, the CC faction sat on the mountain to watch the tiger fight, and watched the show on the side, applauding and shouting that dog eats dog is really exciting.

Even the Ministry of Education was implicated, because the content of the "Abolition of Traditional Chinese Medicine Bill" included the prohibition of Chinese medicine practitioners from opening schools, and even the previous vocational schools of Chinese medicine must be renamed the Old Medical Training Institute.

Li Shizeng was holding a national conference in Nanjing at this time, and was overwhelmed by Peking University students who went south to petition. As a result, the major Chinese medicine associations also came to him to petition, and he had to let him support Chinese medicine.

Li Shi was so depressed that he wanted to hit the wall, Lao Tzu hasn't even done it yet, how can he help you run a Chinese medicine school now.

The controversy between Chinese medicine and Western medicine in the newspapers has escalated, and Western medicine has denounced Chinese medicine as unscientific, an old doctor, a witch doctor, and a careless treatment of human life. Traditional Chinese medicine has fallen behind Western medicine and abandoned its ancestors, and Western medicine has swallowed Chinese medicine, which is medical imperialism and traitors.

Because the resistance of traditional Chinese medicine was too fierce and the scale was too large, the Ministry of Health controlled by Feng Yuxiang could only come out and thin the mud, announcing that although the "abolition of traditional Chinese medicine bill" was passed, it would not be implemented for the time being, and it would be discussed slowly in the future.

This debate between Chinese and Western medicine is far from over, and will last for at least ten years.

However, after all, Western medicine has controlled the government organs, and although it has not directly abolished traditional Chinese medicine, it has done all kinds of covert work. For example, after the TCM petition group left Nanjing, the Ministry of Education immediately issued an announcement ordering all TCM schools to be renamed as study centers. Subsequently, the Ministry of Health issued a general order to change the name of the national traditional Chinese medicine hospital to the infirmary, and prohibited traditional Chinese medicine from using Western methods and Western medicine.

In particular, Article 2 stipulates that the road to the modernization and scientificization of traditional Chinese medicine has been blocked, and the integration of traditional Chinese and Western medicine has also been completely prohibited. This led to the second storm of protest in traditional Chinese medicine, and the Chinese medicine community organized rallies, protests, petitions, marches, market boycotts, and hunger strikes all day long.

Nowadays, China cannot make its own Western medicines, and all Western medicines rely on imports, so the price of medicines is very expensive, and the people at the bottom cannot afford to take medicines. As soon as the government did this, Chinese medicine made trouble all day long, and even went on strike, resulting in many people being sick and difficult to get medical treatment, and even getting prescriptions turned out to be unable to buy medicinal materials.

The abolition of traditional Chinese medicine in the 21st century may not have too serious consequences, but in the Republican period, it was simply catastrophic.

At this time, there are too few Western doctors and hospitals, and Western medicine is ridiculously expensive.

The funniest thing is that Wang Zhaoming, who had the most trouble on the abolition of traditional Chinese medicine, had a bad disease and diarrhea, and his mother-in-law couldn't help but ask for Western medicine. In the end, he could only ask Shi Jinmo, one of the four great doctors, to take a shot, and he was cured by taking ten doses of decoction.

The Chinese medicine community seized this opportunity and wrote an article saying that Wang Zhaoming had believed in traditional Chinese medicine. Wang Zhaoming could not refute it, ignored the news, and continued to call for the abolition of traditional Chinese medicine as always.

Zhou Hexuan reads the debate in the newspaper all day long, and in his helplessness, he feels that the debate in the Republic of China is really interesting. There will be a big discussion at the end of three days, and everyone will attack each other around various issues, and the collision of ideas and values will have infinite charm in itself.