Why do many people always think that Chinese medicine and China Wushu are useless?

China did not experience the industrial revolution naturally and smoothly, so in terms of traditional Chinese medicine, it did not naturally move towards modern medicine. Similar to the traditional medical technology of other civilizations, only the medical field in Europe has gradually evolved into modern medicine by means of biology, chemistry and physics. In fact, what are the so-called western medicines handed down from the West? Almost all in the past 300 years. Without the progress of chemistry, especially organic chemistry, 90% drugs could not be made. The progress of biology has completely changed the cognition of human body and nature. Random achievements, such as antibiotics and insulin, have saved hundreds of millions of lives, such as physical X-rays and gamma knife. The backwardness of TCM is also a part of the backwardness of modern China. If we can't make use of the explosive technological progress of the whole human civilization, Chinese medicine can only survive by national feelings. For example, the 20 14 top ten scientific breakthroughs in Science magazine, including GDF 1 1 protein in blood, the culture of beta-like cells, new members of base sequence, etc., can all be applied in modern medicine. Of course, in the field of traditional Chinese medicine, the application of modern technology in the analysis and identification of Chinese herbal medicines has also changed, such as artemisinin. In addition, natural medicines such as cinchona tree have proved that there are still great gifts in nature, but the related engineering quantity is very huge. As for other aspects of traditional Chinese medicine, since we have failed to grasp the opportunity of successful evolution in our own system for hundreds of years, we can only make full use of the standard means and evaluation system of modern medicine to verify it.

Author: Bai Ben

Source: Zhihu.

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