Why don't Japanese people love Chinese medicine?

Japanese people have been emphasizing Chinese medicine since the 20th century, it's just that the number of people is small, which makes it seem like the amount of Chinese medicine is relatively low. The reason you say you don't like TCM is because Western medicine is more realistic in terms of price and course of treatment.

Ko Ishibashi, professor emeritus at Kitasato University and former president of the Japanese Society of Oriental Medicine, pointed out, "Western medicines have a single active ingredient and are fast-acting, killing germs that cause infections, relieving fever, relieving pain, and lowering blood pressure, which are highly effective for isolated symptoms and acute illnesses. On the other hand, Chinese herbal medicine is a combination of multiple herbs taken together, with each herb possessing multiple active ingredients, and is therefore effective in treating a wide range of diseases and symptoms, and can be effective for complex and diverse symptoms such as chronic and systemic diseases."

He said, "Western medicine prescribes the same prescription to remove the same causes and symptoms, but Han Han prescription is prescribed for each individual based on the patient's constitution and state at the time. For different diseases, the same Hanban medicine can be used if the constitution and symptoms are similar."

In 1950, the Society of Oriental Medicine was established in Japan, and in 1976, extracts of Chinese herbal medicines could be applied to health insurance and were widely used. Nobutsuke Omori said that many universities are now opening research institutes for Oriental medicine, and many hospitals have outpatient clinics for Oriental medicine, so that general practitioners can also prescribe Hanban medicines, which permeate ordinary life.

However, after 1874, according to the policy of the Meiji government, it is not possible to obtain a physician's license without studying Western medicine, so in Japan, after 1883, the subject of the physician's national examination also does not include Hanban medicine, so there are fewer physicians with systematic knowledge of Hanban medicine, and many of the Hanban medicines are used according to the viewpoints of Western medicine.

Chinese medicine in Japan is called "hanbang medicine," and traditional Chinese medicine is called "hanbang medicine," or "hanbang" for short. Nowadays, drug therapy based on classical medical books is called "hanbang medicine," and physical therapy, which stimulates meridians and acupuncture points, is called "acupuncture medicine," and both are called "Oriental medicine. The two are also known as "Oriental medicine".

Chinese medicine was introduced to Japan in the fifth and sixth centuries. In the Ming Dynasty, some medical monks who went to China to study studied the medicine of the Jin Dynasty and Yuan Dynasty, and gradually possessed Japanese characteristics. Unlike Chinese medicine, Japanese medicine excludes the theory of yin and yang and five elements, and the theories such as "warm disease" established in China during the Ming and Qing dynasties were basically not inherited by Japanese Chinese medicine, which does not take into account the theory of the cause of disease and adopts the prescriptions in the "Treatise on Typhoid Fever" and other medical books mainly based on the symptoms.

Additionally, Japanese herbal medicine does not emphasize "pulse diagnosis" but "abdominal diagnosis". There are fewer types of herbs than in China, and the amount of medicine used per day is about one-third of that used in China.