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Why are the most famous medical skills now western medicine and Chinese medicine?

Western medicine is the most famous medicine, not application, but famous medicine (not modern medicine). The so-called western medicine refers to medicine that originated in ancient Greece and is popular in western countries. Then came the oldest Egyptian doctors, Arab doctors and Indian doctors, and Chinese medicine was only known to the world in modern times. In ancient times, only Japan, Korea and Vietnam knew and used Chinese medicine.

What China people call western medicine has long been replaced by modern medicine. At present, the medicine and drugs used all over the world are modern medicine based on science, and no one in other countries calls it western medicine. Only China officially calls modern medicine western medicine (establishing the concept of Chinese and western ideology), while South Korea calls modern medicine foreign medicine (South Korea used to believe and use Korean medicine, while young people used modern medicine).

Textbooks, books and media in China only introduce Chinese medicine and western medicine, but rarely introduce foreign traditional medicine, which makes many people in China think that there are only Chinese medicine and western medicine in the world, turning China people into frogs in the well.