Before western medicine was introduced into China, how did people in China see a doctor?

"Those who oppose Chinese medicine, please answer a question: What should we do if your ancestors got sick before Western medicine spread to China? Is there any treatment? If it is cured, is it western medicine? Will they survive without treatment? It seems that it doesn't matter if you don't treat the disease! "

Yesterday, I saw a fan of Chinese medicine ask such a question to people who opposed Chinese medicine. Although this kind of problem seems to be a difficult problem for Chinese medicine lovers or people who have a vague affection for Chinese medicine because of the influence of China's cultural environment, it seems to those who have opposed Chinese medicine for many years that it is just the chatter of Chinese medicine lovers.

At the age when I have a good impression on Chinese medicine, this question is also used by me to refute those who oppose Chinese medicine. Of course, as a result, I was awakened by several slaps from the other side, and gradually began to understand that "Chinese medicine is indeed a liar intentionally or unintentionally." From then on, I became a black Chinese medicine practitioner and volunteered to join the anti-Chinese medicine team. But after I became a Chinese medicine practitioner, this problem will always be seen in the debate with Chinese medicine powder. It's like a piece of chewing gum sticking to your pants. It's hard to get rid of it if you don't take it seriously. The question "How did western medicine treat diseases before it was introduced into China" is like chewing gum stuck in the brain of Chinese medicine powder. If TCM powder doesn't seriously think about the answers given by anti-TCM people, then this chewing gum will stick in my mind all the time.

In terms of western medicine-the word western medicine is not accurate, Chinese medicine is the abbreviation of China traditional medicine, and western medicine should also be the abbreviation of western traditional medicine, so the correct name of western medicine should be modern medicine-before it was introduced to China, what should China do if he fell ill? With what? I want to answer this question from four aspects. If there is any incompleteness, please understand and welcome to add.

First, Chinese medicine was born more than 2,000 years ago, and modern medicine was born in18th century. Therefore, compared with the long history and the length of time, modern medicine is indeed inferior to traditional Chinese medicine. Therefore, it is understandable that TCM powder and people who have a good impression on TCM have such doubts. However, understandability does not mean that their problems are self-evident. This question is easy to answer. As long as you look further, from more than 2,000 years to 5,000 years, 1 10,000 years,110,000 years, and millions of years, you will understand that more than 2,000 years is nothing but rain in Mao Mao compared with millions of years of human history. Then in the long years of millions of years before the birth of Chinese medicine, our human ancestors were also going to get sick. What should I do if I get sick? Do they see Chinese medicine? Obviously, our ancestors can only fight hard, and if they can't fight, they will die. Fortunately, most of our ancestors were able to leave their descendants, which made us what we are today.

Second, the so-called hard resistance is to rely on the self-healing ability of the human body to resist diseases. The human body has a strong self-healing ability. For example, if a hand is cut, the coagulation mechanism will automatically make the wound coagulate and scar, without any white medicine and black medicine. This, I believe that all people who cut their hands have an impression. Of course, although the self-healing power is powerful, it is not omnipotent. If the artery is cut off, then without the help of modern medicine, the self-healing power is just slag, and the injured person can only die unfortunately. The human body is self-healing for many diseases, so it is ok to rely on hard resistance without looking at Chinese medicine. And sometimes the effect of hard resistance may be better than traditional drug treatment.

Third, then, how to judge whether the patient is cured or not depends on the self-healing ability of the human body or the result of taking medicine? This involves how to judge the curative effect. Chinese medicine powder or people who have a vague affection for Chinese medicine are often confused when judging the curative effect. Whether Chinese medicine or Chinese medicine is effective cannot be judged by "you can eat Chinese medicine if you are sick, so Chinese medicine is effective", not only Chinese medicine, but also Mongolian medicine, Tibetan medicine and Indian medicine, because from the second one, we understand the fact that the human body has a strong self-healing ability. Therefore, getting better is not necessarily the result of taking medicine, although the patient does get better after taking medicine. I remember a military doctor who once treated his comrades in a prison camp. Because he is also a prisoner, he has no medicine and can only take care of his comrades-in-arms with a compassionate humanitarian spirit. Results Military doctors found many diseases that needed medication before, and they could be treated without medication. This discovery surprised the military doctors, who doubted their previous understanding of what diseases were treated with what drugs. Therefore, after the war, he proved his discovery through a large number of research experiments, and from then on, he put forward a "randomized double-blind clinical trial", which influenced people's epoch-making understanding of the efficacy of drugs and treatment methods. This standard for judging the efficacy of drugs and treatments is now accepted and recognized by modern medicine all over the world. This military doctor is Cochrane, the founder of evidence-based medicine.

Whether a drug is effective or not can only be concluded through large-scale randomized double-blind clinical trials, and only in this way can self-healing factors be ruled out. If self-healing can make patients recover, why take medicine? Just work hard. Drugs have side effects. This is a responsible attitude and practice for patients. However, Chinese medicine does not accept this set of standards, thinking that the standards of western medicine cannot require Chinese medicine. Chinese medicine believes that "the patient recovered after taking the medicine" is proof.

Fourth, there are many animals in the world besides humans. If you are ill, you must take medicine to see a doctor. So, where is the animal doctor? Don't forget, veterinarians are human occupations. In fact, before the birth of modern medicine, most people were no different from animals when they were sick. When they get sick, they either try their best to survive or die unfortunately. Naturally, it is so cruel. Moreover, there are still many poor people in the world who lack medical care and medicine. Their situation after illness is no different from that of human ancestors, and their coping style is only hard resistance. Of course, in addition to doctors' belief that human beings are still jumping to drink all kinds of divine water, if it is really effective, its history is longer than that of traditional Chinese medicine and its content is wider than that of traditional Chinese medicine.

I hope my four answers can make those who ask "How did China people see a doctor before Western medicine was introduced to China" have some thoughts and inspirations, so it is worth being slapped by people who had a good impression on Chinese medicine when I was a teenager. If you don't have any ideas and inspiration, forget it. Let this gum stick to their heads. After all, Confucius said that "rotten wood cannot be carved, and the wall of dung cannot be broken."

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