Why Chinese medicine in China has been crushed by western medicine?

As we all know, the traditional medicine in China is Chinese medicine. In our thousands of years of history, Chinese medicine has always been a major medical system we have pursued, and we have been treating diseases through Chinese medicine for thousands of years. However, with the development of the times in modern times, the medical system has also undergone tremendous changes, and we have also recognized many foreign advanced medical technologies.

So now western medicine is our main medical system, and Chinese medicine seems to be less and less valued. Why? In fact, the main reason is that western medicine should be more scientific, mainly because western medicine has a thorough demonstration of medical principles and a thorough study of various drugs and pharmacology. Moreover, when they develop a drug, they often have to do adverse reaction analysis to judge what kind of influence the drug may bring to the human body, what kind of adverse reactions it has, and who can eat it and who can't. These are the results of many scientific practices and interpretations.

The words of Chinese medicine are more like a summary of experience, that is to say, Chinese medicine is a summary of experience developed by thousands of years of civilization of our ancestors. Maybe a person used to take a medicine to treat a disease, so this medicine was recorded, and we will use this medicine to treat diseases in the future, but we don't have a clear understanding of why this medicine can treat diseases. So far, there are still many related studies that have not been carried out.

Moreover, the theories pursued by TCM, including Yin-Yang theory and five lines of gossip, are considered untenable in modern science. However, if Chinese medicine uses yin and yang and five elements to treat diseases, it will naturally be questioned by everyone. On the contrary, if the medical system of western medicine is based on modern science, it will be much more formal.