Traditional Medicine and Witch Doctors in China

Sun Simiao mentioned in "A Prescription for Preparing a Thousand Daughters in Case of Emergency": When one side helps, virtue transcends this. Sun Simiao believes that doctors should not only cure diseases and save lives, but also pay attention to morality, that is, medical ethics, in the process of practicing medicine and saving medicines. Since Sun Simiao in Tang Dynasty, Chinese medicine has always paid attention to medical ethics. During the period of 20 18, the world health organization listed Chinese medicine in the medical syllabus with global influence for the first time 1.

Traditional Chinese medicine also has many classic representative books, such as Huangdi Neijing, Treatise on Febrile Diseases and so on. In 3000 BC, Chinese medicine was born, but it was still in ancient times, and even the Xia Dynasty had not been established. Traditional Chinese medicine was just a concept at that time, and it was not specifically implemented in a certain social status or literary records.

It was not until the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period that the concept of TCM was gradually formed. It is recorded that the earliest Chinese medicine literature that people can find is about anatomy and medical branches. At that time, they already had the knowledge of four diagnoses. Slowly, people began to develop moxibustion and decoction on this basis.

During the Eastern Han Dynasty (25-220), a large number of outstanding Chinese medicine scholars emerged in China. For example, Zhang Zhongjing developed eight methods of yin and yang, exterior and interior, excess and deficiency, and cold and heat. There is also Hua Tuo (145- AD 208), which expanded the research field of Chinese medicine, because Hua Tuo is a Chinese medicine scholar who is proficient in surgery and anesthesia, and at the same time, he also developed the Wuqinxi.

In the Tang Dynasty, political thoughts and other aspects became the advantages of the times. There are countless Chinese medicine scholars born in this era, and Sun Simiao is actually a master. On the basis of inheriting the theoretical knowledge of traditional Chinese medicine from ancient times to the present, Sun Simiao also gave full play to medical ethics. After Sun Simiao, people have always said that doctors should not only practice medicine to save lives, but also pay attention to medical ethics, which further improved the systematic development of Chinese medicine.

But why is the achievement of ancient medicine in China more remarkable than that of modern medicine? There may be three reasons. The reason of 1 is that many traditional medical classics have gradually disappeared with the change of time. Therefore, it is difficult for TCM scholars to inherit the wisdom of the ancients. For example, although many bamboo slips have been unearthed in archaeology, they are easy to be oxidized once dug out.

Slowly, people also lost some ancient medical classics. At this time, it is difficult to learn and pass on. And some families may have these classics and keep them well. But it does not spread to the outside world, so it has limitations.

The second reason is the influence of social status. Because in ancient times, the social status of doctors was not very high, not as high as that of farmers, so there were relatively few people willing to study medicine, and the possibility of inheritance was not great. Spread to contemporary society, the most authentic Chinese medicine scholars may have been impure.

The third reason is that no one wants to take on heavy responsibilities. In the process of changing times, we will find that the social atmosphere is becoming more and more complicated. During the Republic of China, many people wanted to join the army as warlords. During War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression's time, people wanted to be soldiers to defend their country. In modern society, people want to be network celebrities and stars, and gradually forget the traditional concept of Chinese medicine, resulting in a state of no inheritance. Therefore, people who study Chinese medicine now are either not authentic or no one is going to learn it.