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What can western medicine do?

Many ancient drugs in the world today are quietly resurrected. Including ancient Indian medicine, German medicine, British medicine and, of course, China medicine, Qigong is no longer a patent of China people, but a fashion in economically developed countries.

In terms of therapeutic effect, such ancient medicine has treated many chronic diseases that western medicine can't cope with, so western medicine calls this kind of medicine, especially eastern medicine "alternative medicine".

However, before the emergence of modern western medicine, this kind of medicine prevailed for hundreds of years and somehow lost to western medicine. Simplified to "alternative medicine"

Let's try to analyze it.

First of all, in Europe, the plague has caused several sharp population declines. Newton found that Gravity and decameron, the first novels in the history of European literature, were the products of escaping the plague. But the ability of ancient medicine to control plague is far less than that of modern western medicine. With the emergence of vaccines and antibiotics, almost all pathogenic diseases have been taken down by humans. Within 100 years after the discovery of antibiotics, such initially scary words as "plague", "typhoid fever" and "dysentery" have been forgotten by modern people. The success of infection control has established the status and prestige of western medicine in society at present.

Second, another weapon of western medicine: anatomy strengthens the position of western medicine in people's minds. Especially in the 20th century, the two biggest world wars in human history, ancient medicine is far behind. In peacetime, human traffic accidents, industrial accidents and sports accidents are all caused by western medicine represented by anatomy, knocking all these "ancient medicines" to the ground.

Third, modern scientific progress makes people feel the service brought by scientific and technological progress all the time. Steam engines, electricity and electromagnetic waves have promoted social development in most fields of agriculture, industry, medical care and society. People basically think that science is a god worthy of worship. Now science is the most perfect and rigorous knowledge system in human history, and modern western medicine fully meets this standard. Science is a part, a structure and a system, while western medicine is a cell and a system.

Thirty years in Hedong, thirty years in Hexi. After World War II, with the improvement of living standards, nutrition and sanitary conditions all over the world, bacterial infections almost disappeared in developed countries. Bacterial diseases are no longer the number one enemy of mankind, and western medicine represented by "antibiotics" is gradually losing its luster.

Through the above three aspects, we can answer a question: Why do you feel uncomfortable? After going to the hospital for examination, the doctor will tell you that nothing is wrong, go home and take a rest, and so on. Western medicine is aimed at bacterial diseases and traumatic diseases, and most of our chronic diseases depend on our traditional medicine, even nutritional medicine.

Western medicine, Chinese medicine and nutritional medicine will enter a new era together. People can know their own areas of adaptation. Mankind will move towards a healthier new century!