Why does science distinguish between western medicine and Chinese medicine, while medicine is divided into western medicine and Chinese medicine?

Every nation and civilization has its own medicine, and the medicine in the world is far more than traditional Chinese medicine and western medicine.

In fact, the Chinese medicine we are talking about is just Chinese medicine. China has traditional medicine recognized by the state, such as Mongolian medicine, Tibetan medicine, Miao medicine and Zhuang medicine. The history of human medicine is very complicated, and there is no reason, because people are bound to get sick, get injured and encounter all kinds of medical problems. The biggest difference between people and animals is that people have subjective initiative, never face diseases and trauma, rely entirely on physical instinct to resist, and always think of various ways to deal with it. And will also give the symptoms of various diseases, looking for reasons and reasons to explain their existence. From the oldest concept of punishing God's wrath and evoking ghosts and gods, witch doctors were born. The initial medical history of all civilizations in the world began with witch doctors, and there is not much difference.

The evolution from witch doctors to treating diseases with drugs and surgery is a great progress, at least from the perspective of medical history. As for the effect of treatment, it is hard to say. Generally speaking, it depends on luck. Because most diseases can heal themselves, or have a self-healing rate. It is the self-healing rate of the disease that gives birth to all kinds of strange treatments all over the world, including Chinese medicine. Anyway, no matter how you treat them, some patients will get better. 100% deaths are actually rare.

Illustration: Dr. Miao poster.

Look at the rise of homeopathy, one of the traditional western medicine, and you may understand why there are so many branches of medical associations. Illustration: the founder of homeopathy. The idea of treating diseases is that the most ideal treatment method is to make patients recover quickly, gently and continuously in the most trustworthy and least harmful way. There is nothing wrong with the idea itself. The only question is how to achieve it.

In traditional medicine, homeopathy may have the shallowest history. It was founded by German doctor Sam in 1796? H created a magical treatment method based on his theory of brain hole out-of-body experience. When Heneman was studying why cinchona bark can effectively treat malaria, he tried the medicine with his body. He found that cinchona bark could make him feel as if he had malaria, so he felt that he had found the ultimate truth of treating diseases, gained insight into the truth of how to find effective drugs to treat diseases, and inspired him to establish homeopathy.

The core idea is that if a substance (herbs or any other substance) can induce symptoms similar to diseases, then it can treat diseases. For example, if you want to treat a fever, you should find something that can make people feel hot. Of course, Heinermann is not stupid. He knew that many things, especially drugs, were poisonous, so he made improvements. He constantly diluted and violently oscillated the drug, and claimed that the higher the dilution multiple, the more violently oscillated, and the toxicity of the drug would be eliminated, but the ability to treat diseases remained in the diluent. However, according to modern scientific research, after repeated dilution of drugs, when the dilution ratio exceeds a certain limit, almost only pure water remains, so in the end, Heinermann is actually treating water as a panacea for diseases.

Can drinking water cure diseases?

Yes, of course. If homeopathy is useless, how can it survive from birth to now and earn a lot of money every year? Many people are devout believers in homeopathy. Homeopathy can survive, not only because of faith, but also because most diseases can heal themselves. In addition, the more confident you are, the stronger the placebo effect caused by any treatment. Even if it can't cure the disease, it can also reduce the pain and discomfort, and modern medical research has proved that the more gorgeous the packaging, the more expensive the placebo, and the better the effect.

Illustration: In 20 12 years, the sales of homeopathic drugs in the United States alone reached $6.4 billion, and it was on the rise.

But there are still some diseases in this world that will definitely kill people.

For example, after the onset of rabies, people will inevitably die, but not everyone who is bitten by a dog will get rabies, and how to identify mad dogs is not clear to the ancients. Therefore, no matter how you treat patients suspected of being bitten by mad dogs, there will always be people who will not get rabies and survive, but no one knows whether this is the effect of treatment or pure luck.

With modern medicine today, we certainly know that the ancient people's treatment of so-called rabies patients was all luck.

Even now, once rabies breaks out, the mortality rate is basically 100%, and only a few people are cured. These cured patients may be lucky, and the virulence of infected rabies virus strains may be weak.

In a word, no practitioner of Chinese and western medicine dares to claim and accept the challenge of treating rabies patients, preferring to treat cancer rather than touch rabies, because even cancer, in case of self-healing rate, will become famous as long as it hits one. Even, fame can spread to counties and cities, and even big people in counties and cities can't help but come to see you. This is the importance of credibility. A few years ago, there was social news that illiterate aunt cured cancer. My aunt didn't mean to be a liar, but she was lucky and became famous. People just like to tell urban fairy tales that were rejected by big hospitals and then cured by folk experts, which won the hearts of the people.

In a word, the complexity and self-healing rate of diseases make clinical practice medicine a place of melee.

Most patients, who don't know or want to know science, are more easily confused by rumors and deception, just like those who look for victims in big hospitals. If these doctors are seriously ill, they have to go to a big hospital.

The high profit of medical treatment makes this melee place full of all kinds of confusing words.

In this respect, apart from the government's standardized management, the rest depends on consumers' own experience and knowledge.

Whether to believe in science or traditional experience or even witch doctors, the choice is in your own hands, and your life and money are yours.