After the Xin Guan Pneumonia incident, would you switch to Chinese medicine to treat your illness? Why?

First of all, I would like to make it clear that my family and I also took Chinese medicine before the incident of Sunken Pneumonia, and I am not averse to Chinese medicine and believe that it is effective. In addition to this, I often go for tui na massage to relieve my back pain triggered by being sedentary.

Since the outbreak of the new coronary pneumonia, especially after the square cabin hospital began to admit patients, Chinese medicine has become an important means of relieving the symptoms of patients, auxiliary treatment, and has been promoted throughout the country, Tianjin University of Traditional Chinese Medicine President Zhang Boli academician is personally visited Wuhan, to guide the work of Chinese medicine disaster relief, as far as we can see, the traditional Chinese medicine in the battle against new coronary pneumonia play a role in some effect. For example, more than 500 patients in the Jiangxia square cabin, none of which turned into a serious illness.

The performance of Chinese medicine in the fight against the epidemic has changed the views of many people, including many Western doctors, so much so that some people have laughed that the epidemic has saved Chinese medicine.

This is of course a joke, Chinese medicine stretches over thousands of years, the big scene has seen a lot, will not because of one thing towards the rise and fall, but with the development of medical technology, the development of traditional Chinese medicine is facing embarrassment is also a fact.

The most easily attacked point is: can not be explained by modern science. A few days ago the American professional counterfeiter and former Stanford University researcher Elizabeth? Bick just publicly challenged an article on the peer-reviewed exchange website Pubpeer about the treatment of neocoronaryngitis with Chinese herbs, which contained obvious citation irregularities and content contradictions in several places, and emphasized that the article deserved ? focused attention?

His challenge is broken down into several parts:

1. Insufficient evidence, with only one patient case;

2. The article? hundreds of cases? The description comes from a previous press release;

3, there is no control group, then the experiment can not explain anything;

4, about the mechanism of action of the Chinese medicine is not clear;

5, the Chinese medicine

6, whether the use of CT images is authorized;

Of these, the first, second, and sixth are the problems of thesis writing, which have little to do with traditional Chinese medicine itself, and will not be discussed here, while the third, fourth, and fifth have been the most frequently mentioned problems in recent years.

We know that most effectiveness experiments must have a control group to distinguish the effects of use, and if a drug does not show a significant difference between users and non-users, then its effectiveness is in doubt.

Composition is another issue of concern, open the packaging of all chemical drugs, the inside of the manual will spell out in detail the composition and content of the drug, as well as the adverse effects of the only traditional Chinese medicine, part of the cover-up, part of the said unclear, part of the do not want to say. But as a consumer, have the right to know what is the composition of the drugs purchased, the right to know is the minimum requirements for the protection of consumer rights and interests, as if you went to buy a bucket of canned food, always know what meat is made of it. It's about common sense, not about the object.

As for the mechanism of action, it is even more mysterious, a Chinese medicine, many people will take the system, that can not be evaluated with the Western medical system of Chinese medicine, which is a different system. The author strongly disagrees with this statement, scientific thinking is the cornerstone of the development and progress of modern society, there are no two scientific systems. If Chinese medicine is an independent system, then Indian traditional medicine, African traditional medicine, South American traditional medicine, are not all going to make an independent system?

To develop, Chinese medicine must not be self-indulgent, but must stand the test of modern science, and even be combined with modern science to stimulate its ancient vitality and promote its development. To take the simplest example, the examination tools and inspection means now used in Chinese medicine are the result of the development of modern medicine, since the examination can be used, why is it that another system is emphasized when prescribing pharmaceuticals.

Another example is academician Zhang Boli, who had an attack of cholecystitis during his work and underwent a resection surgery in Wuhan. Zhang's dedication is very touching, but surgery is also a means of modern medicine.

In recent years, Chinese medical treatments and medicines have been revered in many parts of the world, for example, more and more NBA players are opting for fire cupping to relieve fatigue, and acupuncture has been accepted by the world even earlier, with the popular sci-fi movie? The Matrix? The popular sci-fi movie "Matrix" gave acupuncture a big advertisement.

A national survey conducted by the NCCAOM found that 1 in 10 adults in the United States had received acupuncture treatment. Of those people, another 21 percent have used massage and acupressure in addition to acupuncture to treat their illnesses at the same time.

The market for Chinese medicine is also expanding, with the world market for herbal medicines totaling more than $60 billion in 2018, of which mainland China's share is only 2 percent, less than a fraction of Japan's. South Korea, and even Taiwan, China's share is several times more than that of mainland China. And this 2% of about 70% of the raw materials from the sale of Chinese herbs, value-added exports of proprietary Chinese medicines is minimal.

For the majority of practitioners in China, the globalization of Chinese medicine is both an opportunity and a challenge, the opportunity means that we do a good job, the world is able to accept, and the prospects for the challenge lies in the fact that we must give up holding on to the old, so that the Chinese medicine can be reborn in the fire.

Finally, Chinese medicine is a traditional Chinese treasure, but it exists in the realm of science, not to be confused with the state and the nation, and overemphasize its cultural and regional attributes, which can easily fall into the realm of political debate, and ultimately victimized by the Chinese medicine itself.