Why do ordinary people believe in Chinese medicine?

Ordinary people are used to trusting intuition, which is "Chinese medicine can really cure diseases"

. Maybe his own illness has been cured, or maybe the people around him have been cured. Anyway, he saw it with his own eyes, not from hearsay, so he couldn't help believing it. Besides, as Mao, a spokesman for the Ministry of Health, said, "Chinese medicine is the quintessence of our country". In ancient China, there was no western medicine, and it was entirely a family of Chinese medicine. If Chinese medicine can't cure the disease, won't China people die? Although more often, he saw the helplessness and powerlessness of Chinese medicine, but this can't shake his worship of Chinese medicine, because even an imperial doctor can't cure all diseases, otherwise, people won't die.

At this time, you tell him that some diseases will heal themselves, even if you don't take medicine. Some animals are sick and there is no doctor to see them, isn't it good? He would say, how do you know that animals will get sick? How can you compare humans with animals? How good is it not to take medicine? If you tell him again that some traditional Chinese medicines only play the role of placebo, not medicine, but the psychological effect after you get well, he may be angry: take these starch pills next time you get sick, and I'll see if you will get well. If you remind him that Chinese medicine may be poisonous, and some of it is still poisonous, he will give you a rebuff: it is three-point poison, and it is not dead!

I found that Chinese medicine is largely like witchcraft, fortune telling and other feudal superstitions, which is the "efficacy" of survival. If you can't do it once, you will die. I'm afraid you won't live long. As for whether this "spirit" is caused by Chinese medicine, it doesn't matter. Anyway, Chinese medicine is promising, but whose credit is it? So similar, why do so many people still believe in blind fortune telling today? It is because these blind people are often not allowed, but they are not always allowed, and sometimes they are allowed. As for why it is accurate this time, most people are too lazy to think about it. It must be a blind man who can count! In fact, it is too easy for fortune telling to be "effective" occasionally. For example, I called you "your boy has a disaster today", but I didn't say you had any disaster. In general, the "curative effect" rate is above 50%. The same is true of Chinese medicine. No matter what disease you get, it is common that you can't cure it. After a long period of diagnosis and treatment (old Chinese medicine is popular), you will naturally meet patients who heal themselves, be cured by psychological comfort, or be cured by your "compound prescription", and you will become a wonderful doctor and finally come out. Secondly,

Western medicine is in the process of continuous development, and many diseases cannot be cured at present, which gives Chinese medicine an advantage.

. I found a phenomenon that Chinese medicine almost lost ground in the contest with western medicine for all diseases that western medicine can cure; For those diseases that western medicine can't cure or have poor curative effect at present, Chinese medicine clamors loudly and even puts forward "Western medicine Chinese medicine". For a time, Chinese medicine has become the trump card for treating intractable diseases. For example, SARS is a brand-new disease. At one time, western medicine didn't know how to treat it. Chinese medicine seems to have found a lifeline and is still boasting that "Chinese medicine has made great contributions to the treatment of SARS". They never bother to say how many critically ill patients have been cured by Chinese medicine, but they just keep saying how many patients have died from western medicine. Such behavior involves moral issues. At this time, if western medicine also has the ability to brag about Chinese medicine, and dare to brag about "curing all diseases" with closed eyes, it will rob Chinese medicine of its job of "treating intractable diseases". Unfortunately, western medicine can't learn this skill until it dies. Not only can't learn, but western medicine is also classified as a medical accident by its own treatment standards from time to time. Unlike Chinese medicine, there has never been such a thing as a medical accident (except that powerful people take it out on Chinese medicine). However, I believe that with the continuous progress of western medicine, diseases that cannot be cured or have poor curative effects will eventually be cured. At that time, Chinese medicine will be defeated again and again, and I am afraid that even the mixed brand of "specializing in intractable diseases" will not be played again. To some extent, anti-Chinese medicine relies on the progress of western medicine (modern medicine). Third,

Many people confuse Chinese medicine with Chinese medicine.

. My attitude has always been: Chinese medicine can basically be regarded as pseudoscience, because it does not follow the principles of modern science and is unwilling to conduct double-blind experiments in modern medicine, but it is very similar to the tricks of many quacks (see what is Chinese medicine? ); Some Chinese medicines are definitely effective. The problem is that because Chinese medicine practitioners are unwilling to do double-blind experiments, we can't know exactly which ones are effective and which ones are not. What's the effect? What are the effective side effects? Is it certain that you can take the medicine that won't die? What drugs do we think are effective but not effective at all? Traditional Chinese medicine always takes its own uniqueness as an excuse and refuses to act according to modern medical principles. Yes, Chinese medicine has its uniqueness, but no matter how unique it is, you should also conform to the basic principles of modern science. I firmly believe that there can only be one set of scientific principles, not two sets. If Chinese medicine insists on another set, it can only prove its inner weakness. As for ordinary people, because they are not very clear about the difference between traditional Chinese medicine and traditional Chinese medicine, it is naturally unacceptable to think that traditional Chinese medicine should be abolished when they hear about abolishing it or making it popular. In fact, if Chinese medicine can really be popularized in the future, those Chinese medicines that have been proved to be effective by experiments can completely pass the national hospital. We are against pseudoscience and not against Chinese medicine. Fourth,

Chinese medicine has existed in China for thousands of years, and it takes a process for ordinary people to see through the essence of Chinese medicine.

. Many statements of Chinese medicine deceiving the world and stealing fame are too strange, and some people questioned this in ancient times. But because it had no competitors at that time, these mysterious things were gradually accepted by the people as "extensive and profound" In modern times, because western medicine was too strong, Chinese medicine was quickly lost in a large area, which was really "an inch of mountains and rivers and an inch of blood". Many people gradually began to stop believing in Chinese medicine. When they are sick, they usually go to see western medicine first. Only when western doctors are really helpless can they go to Chinese medicine. The problem is that there are not a few times when western medicine can do nothing, and sometimes "a dead horse is a living horse doctor" is really "cured". Therefore, most people have reservations about Chinese medicine, thinking it is low-energy and inefficient, but still think it has the ability to be effective. This is why many brothers on the Internet told me that "you can't kill Chinese medicine with a stick". In this case, I know that the road to anti-Chinese medicine has a long way to go. It is estimated that this big discussion may come to nothing at some point. As a netizen said, "the chief is angry and the consequences are very serious." It doesn't matter, at least this discussion has played a deterrent role, and everything should be taken slowly. Fifth,

Many people think that those of us who oppose Chinese medicine are basically not Chinese medicine practitioners, belong to laymen and are not qualified to speak.

. Speaking of which, it seems to be true. Although Mr. Zhou Zi is a doctor of biology and knows a little about Chinese medicine, he has never been a Chinese medicine practitioner for a day. Mr. Zhang Gongyao, although he has a Chinese medicine background, probably does not have a Chinese medicine business license; The others are similar. So some so-called masters in the field of Chinese medicine said, "What do you dolls know!" Here, I want to ask: do you have to know something very well to be qualified to evaluate? If you can't cook, you can't say that other people's cooking is not delicious? If you can't write a novel, you can't criticize others for their poor novel writing? I don't know much about TCM (my uncle is a TCM doctor at all), but I know a little about the basic principles of modern science, and I can basically judge what is real science and what is pseudoscience. Furthermore, if only people who are completely experts are qualified to evaluate and criticize, it is to let our own people criticize our own people. Is this possible? I finally understand the meaning of those Chinese medicine practitioners. They said: only Chinese medicine practitioners are experts in Chinese medicine, and only Chinese medicine practitioners are qualified to criticize Chinese medicine. Stand aside, you amateurs! According to their meaning, if a person plays tricks, you should criticize him and play tricks; To criticize pseudoscience, you must be an expert in pseudoscience yourself. In fact, all the rhetoric of Chinese medicine can be summed up in one sentence: Chinese medicine can't object, and whoever opposes it is ignorant.

To sum up, although Chinese medicine is passive everywhere, it is alive and well, and the mass base is still very solid, which is definitely not something we can shake for a while. Nevertheless, I have always been optimistic and firmly believe that the life of Chinese medicine is getting worse and worse, and it is not far from the people. First, although Chinese medicine is widely superstitious among the people, it is as trustworthy as godlessness, just like feudal superstition. Most people are skeptical and reserved. Secondly, with the continuous progress of western medicine, the territory of Chinese medicine will be more and more narrow, the mass base will be more and more withered, and its essence will be more and more exposed; Third, the voice against Chinese medicine has been over 100 years. I didn't expect Chinese medicine to disappear overnight. On the contrary, Chinese medicine practitioners have a guilty conscience, live in fear all the time, and even do not hesitate to make rumors. Probably they also have a deep understanding, "really can't be fake, really can't be fake"! (The old man ponders)