Ancient Chinese medicine is very powerful, but why didn't the ancients live long?

According to relevant statistics, the average life expectancy of ancient people is generally over 40 years old, and relatively few people live to be over 50 years old. There are many factors that affect life span, and medical treatment is only one of them. I analyze why the average life expectancy of the ancients is not high from the following aspects.

The ancient social environment and the living environment of the ancients are well known. The living environment of ordinary people is dirty, chaotic and poor. Why people can live to be over 70 years old now has a lot to do with the current social living environment. The environment where the ancients lived had no clean water, no good living environment and no healthy hygiene habits.

For the ancients, the most important issue is survival first, and everything else is secondary. Therefore, even if ordinary people know that they can't drink dirty water, they will get sick after drinking it. In order to survive, they have no choice but to drink it. There is no good house, it is cold in winter and summer, and it leaks in rainy days. At most, I ask someone to repair it occasionally, not to mention good personal hygiene habits. Water is precious at any time, especially in the long-term arid areas in the north, and there is no extra water to clean the body.

I once heard a saying from the older generation. People in ancient northwest loess plateau only washed it three times in their lives. What about three times Once at birth, once at marriage and once at death. As can be seen from the above, the ancients did not have such healthy conditions at that time, and survival was the first important thing.

Ancient Chinese Medicine and Life Span

We studied history when we studied it. There were many famous doctors in ancient China, who treated many incurable diseases and wrote many medical works. It can be said that most of the diseases of the ancients can be cured by Chinese medicine, so why not live longer? The most important thing is that it costs a lot of money to see a doctor, which is sometimes beyond the average person's affordability. Some Chinese medicines are still very expensive, such as ginseng, bird's nest, die hard and so on. Ordinary people can barely cure a minor illness, but when they encounter a serious illness, they can only resign themselves to fate. Or it is very common to lose everything for medical care. Generally, most people who can afford a doctor are rich, and they are willing to spend money on their health.

Ordinary people are sick, and small problems are directly tolerated. It's really impossible to see a doctor again. Needless to say, it is difficult to really solve the main problem. Especially for the treatment of intractable diseases, ordinary doctors can't cure them, so they can only ask famous doctors to treat them, which is beyond Wang Can's ability. So even if there is Chinese medicine, people want to treat it, but they can't treat it without money.

To sum up, there was no way to improve the health level of most people with traditional Chinese medicine in ancient times, which eventually led to the low average life expectancy of the ancients. It was not until the founding of New China that this problem was completely solved.