Traditional Chinese medicine and western medicine

Traditional Chinese medicine and western medicine have fundamentally different world views and different methodologies. Since modern times, after western medicine gradually established its dominant position in China, Chinese medicine has been reduced to a subordinate position and a "supplementary" position.

The dispute between Chinese and western medicine is essentially a cultural dispute. With the strong expansion of western culture in the medical field, it uses similar concepts such as science and modernization to claim the territory of Chinese medicine. However, there are also economic benefits behind the concept of "science": various chemicals have swept hospitals at all levels with the help of western medicine, and their huge profits have been distributed to all participants except patients, forming a huge interest group.

The low-cost treatment mode of traditional Chinese medicine has become the enemy of this interest group.

In the trend of judging "good" and "bad" hospitals by economic achievements, Chinese medicine itself is divided. Some Chinese medicine administrators and practitioners who graduated from colleges and universities agree that Chinese medicine must be "modernized" by western medicine-that is, verified by the laboratory. These people have mastered the right to speak in the field of traditional Chinese medicine and vaguely formed an "academic school."

The other part of TCM is produced in the traditional way of learning from teachers and practicing, and advocates thinking about TCM with TCM theory, and the main body of this group is folk TCM.

In the dispute between Chinese and western medicine, they belong to Chinese medicine; In the dispute between academic school of TCM and folk school, they belong to folk school. Folk Chinese medicine, which is in a double weak position in the complex game of ideas and interests, carries traditional medicine and medical tradition, which is the root of its social position.