Chapter 47 47. The paradox and struggle of "anti-Chinese medicine" in the Republic of China

In the early 20th century, although Western medicine had entered China for decades, it was still traditional Chinese medicine that served the vast majority of Chinese people.Interestingly, in less than a hundred years, the positions of Chinese medicine and Western medicine have just changed. Today, Western medicine is in power while Chinese medicine is declining. There are many reasons for this to be discussed. For thousands of years, Chinese medicine has been the only treatment method for Chinese people. The Chinese people have a deep feeling and trust in it. However, when it comes to Western medicine, they often try it with the mentality of giving it a try.Like many new things, Chinese people's suspicion and distrust of Western medicine is also an important reason why Western medicine has not been able to develop in China for decades.

In the eyes of most Western medicine at that time, the traditional and backward Chinese medicine would inevitably gradually decline naturally with the unstoppable medical development, but this was not the case, at least not for a long period of time when Western medicine first entered China. In 1935, Wu Lien-teh, a famous western doctor in Shanghai, had to feel dejectedly that only one out of every eight patients was willing to see a western doctor.Compared with traditional Chinese medicine, western medicine is more expensive, but this is not the main reason hindering its development. The key problem lies in the traditional habits of Chinese people.Because of this, after the founding of the Republic of China, people in the field of Western medicine began to seek the support of political resources to expand the living space of Western medicine, which also triggered fierce conflicts between Chinese and Western medicine.

The first person to talk about the abolition of traditional Chinese medicine was Wang Daxie, who became Minister of Education in September 1913.When he met representatives of the Beijing Medical Association and asked to include Chinese medicine in the medical education system, he said unabashedly: "Yu is determined to abolish Chinese medicine in the future and not use traditional Chinese medicine. It is difficult to approve the case." Wang Daxie's words sparked In November 1914, a delegation of Chinese medicine from 19 provinces across the country came to Peiping to petition the State Council and the Ministry of Education, demanding that the government abandon the policy of abolishing Chinese medicine.Later, the motion to abolish TCM and TCM education also fell through.

When Sun Yat-sen went north to seek medical treatment in 1925, the dispute between Chinese and Western medicine re-emerged.Sun Yat-sen's liver cancer was at an advanced stage at this time, and there were two opinions on the treatment plan. Among them, some people led by Zhang Jingjiang saw that radiotherapy had little effect, so they strongly advocated using traditional Chinese medicine for treatment, and Soong Ching Ling and others also agreed.However, Western doctors such as Tang Erhe firmly opposed Chinese medicine treatment, and the Xiehe Hospital (Western Hospital) where he was located also strongly stated that if he wanted to take Chinese medicine, he had to move out of the hospital, even if he was as dignified as Sun Yat-sen.Under such circumstances, Sun Yat-sen moved out of Xiehe Hospital on February 18 and moved to Iron Lion Huxingyuan due to his serious illness, and was treated by traditional Chinese medicine instead.Well-known Chinese doctors Lu Zhongan, Tang Yaoqin and Zhou Shufen once visited together for a week and prescribed a prescription. Sun Yat-sen's condition improved after taking two doses of the medicine, which was also recognized by foreign western doctors at the time.But a few days later, Sun Yat-sen stopped taking traditional Chinese medicine and continued to use Western medicine to treat symptoms such as diuresis and antidiarrheal until he died of illness.

After the founding of the Republic of China, with the continuous deepening of the New Culture Movement, Chinese tradition and culture have been criticized unprecedentedly. As one of the traditions, Chinese medicine has also suffered heavy losses in this wave of "overall Westernization".Hu Shi criticized Chinese medicine in his early years as "no reasoning, not enough to be a law"; Lu Xun said, "Chinese medicine is just a liar intentionally or unintentionally"; Fu Sinian wrote in 1934: "I would rather die than consult Chinese medicine, because I don't think so. I can’t live up to my education.” The attitude of the new intellectuals who broke with the tradition undoubtedly made the public opinion even more irrational, so that there were shocking remarks such as “Chinese characters are not destroyed, China will perish” .

With Sun Yat-sen's status and prestige, the development of his disease, the treatment he adopted and the curative effect were enough to become highly symbolic events in the world of Chinese and Western medicine at that time.Interestingly, Sun Yat-sen and Lu Xun both studied western medicine before, but they did not become successful doctors but devoted themselves to the larger cause of "medicine to save the country". Therefore, it is not surprising that they reject Chinese medicine . In February 1929, the Ministry of Health of the Nanjing National Government established the first Central Health Committee. At the meeting, the "Abolition of Old Doctors to Remove Obstacles to Medical Hygiene" (proposed by Yu Yunxiu), "Unified Registration of Physicians", and "Restriction of Registration of Traditional Chinese Medicine" were suddenly proposed at the meeting. The four proposals of "Abolishing Traditional Chinese Medicine" and "Proposal to Request Regulations on Restricting Chinese Medicine Doctors and Chinese Medicinal Materials" were finally merged into "Regulating Principles of Registration of Old Doctors", the main contents of which are: Registration was limited until the end of the 19th year of the Republic of China (1940); old medical schools were prohibited; news magazines were prohibited from introducing old doctors.In addition, Yu Yunxiu, a doctor of Western medicine in Shanghai, also submitted a proposal to the Ministry of Education, "Please order the abolition of Chinese medicine schools".As a result, the "Abolition of Chinese Medicine Case" in the history of the Republic of China was suddenly detonated, which led to a melee between Chinese and Western medicine for nearly ten years.

Judging from the "Principles for Regulating the Registration of Old Doctors", the Ministry of Health is essentially trying to achieve the goal of rapid extinction of Chinese medicine by restricting the registration of Chinese medicine.Because of this, after the old Chinese medicine practitioners die of old age, there will be no successors in the field of Chinese medicine. The demise of Chinese medicine is only a matter of time. The school of western medicine played two tricks in the proposal. One is to refer to Chinese medicine as an "old doctor", because Chinese medicine used to call itself "national medicine", and the term "western medicine" itself has a foreign meaning.In order to improve the awareness of Western medicine, the School of Western Medicine referred to itself as "new medicine" and traditional Chinese medicine as "old medicine".The second is to separate traditional Chinese medicine from traditional Chinese medicine, which claims to only oppose Chinese medicine but not Chinese medicine, so as to reduce resistance as much as possible.

The school of western medicine prohibits the running of Chinese medicine schools in the name of "Chinese medicine is unscientific". This trick is also tricky.As early as 1912, the Beiyang government excluded Chinese medicine from the medical education system in the newly promulgated school system and various school regulations on the grounds that Chinese and Western medicine "causes both Chinese and Western medicine". Protests from people in the field failed to implement.This time the school of western medicine brought up the case again, obviously because the ulterior motives were not drinking.

The vanguard of "anti-Chinese medicine" was Yu Yunxiu, a Shanghai western doctor who had studied in Japan. He was also the first president of the Shanghai Physician Association (Western Medicine) at that time. The proposal to abolish Chinese medicine basically came from his handwriting.Yu Yunxiu has always regarded Chinese medicine as witchcraft, and even pointed out that "Chinese medicine is the culprit of murder", and he must get rid of it quickly. The idea of ​​"abolishing medicine and saving medicine" in the proposal was initiated by him. There is a big backer behind the school of Western medicine, and that is Chu Minyi, a member of the Central Committee of the Kuomintang.Chu Minyi joined the Tongmenghui in his early years and is a relatively senior "veteran" in the party. He once studied in France and obtained a doctor's degree in medicine, but he has never practiced medicine himself, because his doctoral thesis is mainly about the discovery that rabbit yin has yin and yang. And the discussion (analysis of the phenomenon of male and female indistinguishable rabbits), is still far from the real medical skills.

Chu Minyi gave a speech at the Central Health Commission and said: "The biggest obstacle to China's health administration is traditional Chinese medicine. If the administration is on the right track, it cannot be regarded as a revolution if traditional Chinese medicine is not cancelled. Japan's strength depends on the Meiji Restoration, which can change its face. The non-governmental movement is to abolish Chinese medicine and Chinese medicine. Therefore, the health conference must take responsibility, pass the proposals drawn up by experts from all over the country, and submit them to the government for implementation. Only then can the great cause of the revolution be completed.”

Chu Minyi's words are quite incomprehensible.First of all, revolution is not the goal of social progress, or even the only means. To promote medical progress in the name of revolution is not only wishful thinking, but also a pseudo-scientific method that does not care about the consequences; The reason is to give priority to the development of military and military industry with the highest quality resources of the country, and to build a regional military power in a militaristic way. This has nothing to do with the reform, and it has nothing to do with the abolition of Chinese medicine and Chinese medicine. In fact, Japan not only did not abolish Chinese medicine and Chinese medicine, but also used Boxer indemnity to set up a natural science research institute in Shanghai, including a department specializing in the study of traditional Chinese medicine. During the Japanese puppet period, he was a member of this research institute (the research institute used Chinese people for human experiments earlier than Unit 731).Interestingly, although Yu himself studied in Japan, he studied medicine after he was 30 years old, and was interrupted because he returned to China to participate in the Revolution of 1911. He did not complete his studies until he was 38 years old. ridicule.Interestingly, although Yu Yunxiu wholeheartedly opposes Chinese medicine, his works are all written on the basis of ancient Chinese medical history, and he has not made any substantial progress in the development of Western medical science. What's even more paradoxical is that those famous people with a strong anti-Chinese medicine attitude, such as Wang Jingwei and Chu Minyi, finally fell into the arms of the Japanese and became big traitors.When Sun Yat-sen was critically ill, Wang Jingwei once turned to support traditional Chinese medicine. This was strongly opposed by Tang Erhe, Sun Yat-sen's attending Western doctor, and he published an article in Beijing's "Morning News". Erhe hit back with his attitude of belittling Chinese medicine: "Anyone with scientific thinking is very modest. They all know that science now knows very little about everything in the world, and there are still many things it doesn't know. For example, cancer, science No specific drug has been discovered today. As for whether it will be discovered in the future, whether it is discovered by scientists or non-scientists accidentally discover it and attract the attention of scientists, no one can say for sure. If someone says for sure that non-scientists cannot discover specific drugs, scientists have not yet discovered it. , all other human beings have no possibility of discovery. Then, I would like to give him the words of Mr. Tang: 'This is a scientist in name, but he is a diehard.'” In the early years of the Republic of China, the favorite thing for some new schools or doctrines was to call themselves the representatives of "science, democracy, and revolution," and then frequently labeled the opposition and those with different opinions as "superstitious, conservative, and reactionary." Thinking that this represents the trend of progress, in fact, this presumed correctness and arbitrariness that cannot be discussed often have counterproductive or even reactionary and retrogressive effects.Wang Jingwei's last sentence denounced this kind of irrational phenomenon, which has actually broken away from the discussion of specific science and has risen to the level of "what is the real scientific spirit". But a few years later, Wang Jingwei's attitude towards Chinese medicine was suddenly different, and the change in his attitude may be related to Chu Minyi.Chu Minyi is Wang Jingwei's most powerful confidant, and his wife is also Wang Jingwei's wife, Chen Bijun.According to rumors, this girl was ugly and had a vulgar manner. At that time, she was just a girl of Chen Bijun, and somehow she got involved with Chu Minyi.Some people say that because Chu Minyi often went in and out of Wang's mansion, he messed up the big family's belly because of his indiscreet behavior, and finally had to marry under Chen Bijun's persecution.Chu Minyi himself is talented and good at playing, but he never brings his wife to formal occasions... To be honest, Chu Minyi did suffer a bit on this issue, but he had no choice but to swallow his anger because of the influence of Wang and Chen.Of course, this is off topic. After the news of the abolition of traditional Chinese medicine spread, it was like a spark splashing into a frying pan. The medical field was in a state of turmoil, the society was shaken, and the public opinion was in an uproar.What the western medicine school did not expect was that the Chinese medicine community responded extremely quickly and powerfully.Under the leadership of famous Shanghai Chinese medicine practitioners Ding Zhongying and Xie Liheng, young Chinese medicine practitioners Zhang Zanchen and Chen Cunren used their "Medical Spring and Autumn" magazine and the distribution network of "Kangjian Daily" to appeal to the Chinese medicine community to hold a national joint protest meeting, and soon It has received positive responses from TCM organizations around the world.Half a month later, 281 representatives of Chinese medicine from all over the country gathered in Shanghai, and held a protest meeting at the Shanghai General Chamber of Commerce on March 17.On the same day, 3,000 TCM clinics and 900 pharmacies in Shanghai were closed. Representatives from TCM schools and the pharmaceutical industry also attended the meeting. At the meeting, representatives from all over the country were excited, and some even burst into tears, because the debate between Chinese and Western medicine in the Beiyang period was limited to verbal battles, but this time it will be serious. danger of unemployment.Although Yu Yunxiu tried to use the strategy of "abolishing medicine and saving medicine" to differentiate traditional Chinese medicine and traditional Chinese medicine, the Chinese medicine community quickly saw through his trick. For example, Lu Shi'er, a member of the Shanghai Association of Traditional Chinese Medicine at the time, pointed out sharply that "the relationship between Chinese medicine and Chinese medicine is as close as lips and teeth. Chinese medicine is dead today, and Chinese medicine is dead today." If Chinese medicine is banned, who will patronize hundreds of thousands of Chinese medicine stores across the country?Can western medicine prescribe traditional Chinese medicine? The TCM Resistance Conference not only received the full support of the TCM industry, but also other chambers of commerce such as the Shanghai General Chamber of Commerce, the National Chamber of Commerce, and the Association for the Maintenance of Domestic Products.The public opinion at that time was also very concerned about this. Representatives of Chinese and Western medical circles sent out excellent writing to fight in newspapers. At the climax of the debate, Chu Minyi even personally wrote a long article to defend the policy of "abolishing Chinese medicine". In a weak position, he disclosed the article to Chen Cunren, a writer in the Shanghai Chinese medicine community, and asked him to write an article to refute it that day. As a result, the two articles were published at the same time, and they fought each other.A young doctor published an article refuting the Central Committee members, which was extremely sensational at the time. The common threat united the TCM and TCM circles, which had always fought alone, and created a unified organization, the "National General Federation of Medical Organizations." On March 20, after the closing of the resistance meeting, the federation decided to designate "March 17" as "National Medical Day" and sent five representatives to Nanjing to petition, thus taking a substantive step in the resistance. When the petition group arrived in Nanjing, it coincided with the third National Congress of the Kuomintang, and the party, state and politicians were gathering together, which provided great convenience for the petition group to carry out activities.According to the previously formulated strategy, the petition group decided to focus on visiting the presidents of the five courts of the National Government (i.e., the Executive Yuan, the Legislative Yuan, the Judicial Yuan, the Supervisory Yuan, and the Examination Yuan) and the Central Party Headquarters. Instead, they temporarily ignored the Ministry of Health, which is dominated by Western medicine. . The first person the petition group visited was Tan Yankai, President of the Executive Yuan. According to Chen Cunren, a member of the petition group, Tan Yankai said before they could open their mouths: "Chinese medicine must not be abolished. I will be the president of the Executive Yuan for a day. Instead of abolishing it, I will promote it." After finishing speaking, Dean Tan stretched out his wrist on the spot, asking the team leader Xie Liheng to diagnose his pulse and prescribe a prescription.The next day, the major newspapers published this prescription, which played a great role in creating momentum for the Chinese medicine school. It was even easier when interviewing Yu Youren, the dean of the Supervisory Yuan, because Yu Youren was the most supportive of Chinese medicine, so when he received the delegation of Chinese medicine, he said: "I have been seeing Chinese medicine and taking Chinese medicine all my life. , there is only one western hospital run by the church in the whole province, and there are only three western doctors in total. Most of the common people rely on traditional Chinese medicine to treat their illnesses. Therefore, Chinese medicine has made great contributions to the health protection of Chinese people. Now western medicine Chu Minyi and others are in power , wanting to eliminate Chinese medicine is the same as foreign believers wanting to eliminate monks and Taoist priests all over the country, so how can it be possible?" Not only that, but Yu Youren also suggested: "Chinese medicine should be managed by another agency. If the health organization organized by Western medicine It’s the same as having priests and priests managing monks.” When the petition group went to the Legislative Yuan to petition, President Hu Hanmin took a break due to illness, and Jiao Yitang, chairman of the Legal Affairs Committee, came to receive him. Jiao Yitang himself was devoted to traditional Chinese medicine and the quintessence of Chinese culture. He said that the petition group should feel at ease, because "this matter First of all, the Legislative Yuan must formulate laws, and the third reading can only be implemented, and the Ministry of Health cannot act arbitrarily.” When the petition group visited Lin Sen's home (later the chairman of the national government), Lin Sen stated on the spot: "This matter is ridiculous. It was all stirred up by a few Western doctors from the Ministry of Health and Chu Minyi. I believe that people all over the country will oppose it. After the government established its capital in Nanjing, the first major case that aroused national opposition was your case." After finishing speaking, Lin Sen asked Lu Zhongan, a well-known Nanjing doctor accompanying him to take a pulse.It turned out that Lin Sen suffered from asthma and had always asked Lu Zhongan to see a doctor. In addition, the petition group also visited the party and state dignitaries Ye Chulan, Li Shizeng, Zhang Jingjiang and others, all of which achieved very good results, because these people are all on the side of Chinese medicine.The western medicine school thought that they could cover the sky with only one hand by controlling the Ministry of Health, but under the struggle of the Chinese medicine school, they discovered that Wang Jingwei, Chu Minyi and others they relied on were actually isolated in the top leadership of the Kuomintang.Even local giants, such as Feng Yuxiang and Yan Xishan, called the central government to support Chinese medicine, especially Yan Xishan, who has always been traditional, was even more resolute. On March 24, Chiang Kai-shek personally received the petition group. Although the time was only five minutes, it had the effect of finalizing the decision.After shaking hands with the members of the petition group, Chiang Kai-shek said: "I know everything about you. I absolutely support traditional Chinese medicine. You can rest assured." At the beginning of the meeting, Chiang Kai-shek spoke Mandarin with a Ningbo accent. The group members all spoke Shanghainese, so we switched to pure Ningbo dialect to talk to them.At the end of the interview, Chiang Kai-shek also revealed that the decree on the proposal will be released as soon as possible. When the petition group was victorious, the Minister of Health Xue Dubi was very passive because he was originally Feng Yuxiang's subordinate, but this time he was recommended by Feng Yuxiang to take up the post of minister. Who knew that he would encounter this trouble as soon as he took office thing.What made him even more anxious was that the Chinese medicine petition group left him alone when they visited the party and state dignitaries. At this time, Feng Yuxiang also called to question him, which made him even more in a dilemma.In the end, Xue Dubi had no choice but to put down his arrogance, personally met the petition representatives and promised on the spot: Although the proposal was approved, it will not be implemented for the time being; it will be renamed Chinese medicine as national medicine; and it will be agreed to establish a "Chinese medicine society". In the process of receiving the petition group, there was another small episode: Xue Dubi also invited Dr. Harding who came back from the Northwest inspection to give a speech on the inspection process. Many directors of the Ministry of Health are from Western medicine. During the conversation, Dr. Harding only spoke Chinese, and the whole speech was narrated in Mandarin. A few days later, the petition team returned to Shanghai, and Chiang Kai-shek's order came down. Several proposals from the Ministry of Health were all withdrawn, and they were only submitted to the Legislative Yuan for reference.So far, the petition group's protest has been a great success.The victory of this TCM protest shows that although the theory of TCM does not conform to the theory of Western medicine, it is an indisputable fact that TCM can cure diseases and has lasted for thousands of years.The school of Western medicine advocates the abolition of Chinese medicine and fundamentally deprives Chinese medicine of its development rights and opportunities. In any case, this is not science but can only be called domineering. It is no wonder that people in the field of Chinese medicine are extremely resentful about this.Most people from all walks of life also expressed sympathy and support for the Chinese medicine industry. In their view, Western medicine schools are just trying to sacrifice the Chinese medicine industry in exchange for their development space and professional interests. Another important reason why Chinese medicine can win is that Western medicine was far from popularized at that time, and the vast majority of Chinese people still relied on traditional Chinese medicine to treat diseases.As people at the time said: "There are 830,000 Chinese medicine practitioners and more than 200,000 pharmacies in the country, while there are only 6,000 Western medicine practitioners nationwide, most of whom are concentrated in cities, and there are no Western medicine doctors in countless counties and villages. Once people have Disease, only Chinese medicine is responsible, how can it be abolished if it is abolished?" The victory of this "anti-Chinese medicine" protest has a lot to do with the quick response and successful organization of the Chinese medicine community.Originally, the school of western medicine thought that it had mastered the power of the Ministry of Health, while the Chinese medicine industry has always been self-employed and unorganized, so it should not be difficult to deal with; , and then formed the National Federation of Medical Organizations, which formed a strong influence and provided a strong backing for the petition group to fight against the Ministry of Health. This result of "the people daring to fight against the government" is probably unprecedented in Western medicine. expected. Although the resistance in 1929 was victorious and the Central Traditional Chinese Medical Center was established the following year, the Chinese medicine industry was still criticized for no reason in the subsequent development. Wang Jingwei obstructed the proposal. He not only opposed the proposal, but also proposed to abolish traditional Chinese medicine. He also advocated that "everything belonging to traditional Chinese medicine should be banned from opening, and Chinese medicine stores across the country should also be ordered to close. Advocating traditional Chinese medicine now is equivalent to blocking tanks with swords."For this fallacy, the Chinese medicine community severely reprimanded Wang for "subjugating the country is not enough, and the species must be exterminated quickly." Wang Jingwei saw that he could not stop the proposal, and then wrote to Sun Ke, President of the Legislative Yuan, to persuade him to jointly block the passage of the "Regulations on Traditional Chinese Medicine". Until November 1935, 82 domestic and foreign representatives headed by Feng Yuxiang proposed at the Fifth Congress of the Kuomintang that the government should treat Chinese and Western medicine equally, and promulgate the "Regulations on Traditional Chinese Medicine" as soon as possible; the national medical and health institutions should add Chinese medicine; allow the establishment of Chinese medicine schools, This led to the official promulgation of the "Regulations on Traditional Chinese Medicine", which had not been passed for several years, and the Department of Health (formerly the Ministry of Health changed to the Department of Health) also established a special Chinese medicine committee to manage Chinese medicine affairs. Huang Yanpei once mentioned in his memoir "Eighty Years" that Mr. Ma Xiangbo, who was nearly 90 at the time, said disapprovingly after hearing the trend of abolishing Chinese medicine: "Don't praise Western civilization too much. It’s happened for a hundred years. When I was young, I went to foreign countries and saw that they didn’t have good medicine. When they got sick, they stuck leeches on their temples and said that all diseases would disappear.” Ma Xiangbo was born in 1840, because his family was religious. For this reason, he has received education from the Christian church since he was a child and has traveled abroad, so he has a considerable understanding of Western learning, which is quite fair. Yu Yunxiu proposed the "abolition of TCM case" for four reasons. First, the theories of TCM are all absurd and grotesque;There is certainly some truth to this statement. For example, Chinese medicine is indeed inferior to Western medicine in dealing with large-scale public health crises and preventing epidemics. However, Chinese medicine has the theoretical system and therapeutic effects of Chinese medicine. It will be beaten to death with a single stick, completely banning the development of Chinese medicine to science. If there is no space for the development of globalization, it is difficult to call it "science" and it will be ridiculed as "self-interested". To rationally and objectively treat the dispute between Chinese and Western medicine, the best way is to talk about the curative effect, so that Chinese and Western medicine can compete together, coexist with each other, communicate and integrate, and learn from each other under the same conditions, instead of occupying administrative resources and instigating irrational public opinion. Repelling and suppressing by legitimate means, this kind of despotism trying to monopolize is just a manifestation of self-interest and can never represent real science, and it has nothing to do with the real "scientific spirit". There is a famous saying in traditional Chinese medicine called "Shanggong cures disease before it occurs", which is also the philosophy of "a good doctor cures disease before it occurs" expounded by Bian Que: the most brilliant doctor cures before the disease occurs, and ordinary people do not know that he can eradicate the root cause of the disease in advance, so On the contrary, his reputation is not very big; when the second-class doctor treats the disease at the beginning, most people think that he can only cure some minor diseases, so his fame only spreads in the village; Notable, so everyone thinks that his medical skills are superb. Yi Zhao also concluded in the book "Health Code: Comprehensive Medical Strategies" that traditional Chinese medicine focuses on holistic treatment, which takes effect slowly but focuses on eliminating the root cause of the disease, while Western medicine has clear divisions, emphasizes individualized treatment, and has a quicker effect , the so-called "headache cure head, foot pain cure foot"; Chinese medicine "look, smell, ask, cut", diagnosis and treatment methods are simple and convenient, low cost, no harm to the human body, but it does not feel accurate enough, Western medicine relies on various medical equipment, such as X-ray, CT, MRI, etc. are accurate but expensive; Chinese medicine attaches great importance to the quality of treatment and does not add unnecessary treatment to increase the suffering of patients, while Western medicine often uses cruel methods such as stimulants, ventilators and even chemotherapy to maintain unnecessary treatment.In fact, for terminal cancer or AIDS and other irreversible diseases, many of them just increase the suffering of patients before death.In this regard, traditional Chinese medicine focuses on conditioning, pays attention to humanistic care, and does not use unnecessary treatment. On the contrary, it is worth advocating. For example, Mr. Ba Jin said before his death that he lived for others... a life full of tubes in his body It is indeed a kind of helpless humiliation for a dignified old man to maintain. The anti-Chinese medicine in the period of the Republic of China was to a large extent the ignorant action of the "anti-counter-culture" after the May 4th Movement under the guise of "sanctification of science", such as Chu Minyi's claim that "Chinese medicine must be wiped out for the sake of revolution".This kind of "anti-anti-culture" of "anti-confucianism", such as anti-tradition, anti-Confucianism, anti-Chinese medicine, anti-father's kindness and filial piety, anti-virtuous wife and mother, anti-everything in the past, etc., is itself a kind of ridiculous The ignorance of extremes and ignorance, and the sanctification of "science" and "western medicine" are just a pseudoscience under the banner of "science", which runs counter to the true scientific spirit. Of course, as China's national quintessence and precious historical heritage, Chinese medicine should be inherited and developed in the future, and it is also a top priority to use modern language and introduce modern scientific methods for theoretical construction and practice.It is also worth mentioning that the anti-Chinese medicine in the period of the Republic of China and the anti-Chinese medicine today have different historical backgrounds, but the truth of the facts is mostly "anti-Chinese medicine due to ignorance" and "anti-Chinese medicine due to self-interest". Publicity and other aspects are far superior, and how many interest groups such as western medicine companies are behind the promotion is still unknown.But in any case, instigating the irrational emotions and thinking of "reverse and anti", carefully and wantonly attacking a country's ancient traditions and industries, and wanting to get rid of them quickly, I am afraid that what is satisfied is only the selfishness of some interest groups. , and in the face of huge historical responsibilities, it is not something these people can bear. In the past 100 years, Chinese tradition and culture have been dealt a heavy blow by injustice and abnormality. Most Chinese people today have lost the ability to read classical Chinese, and are ignorant of tradition and culture to the point where it cannot be added .From this, it can be imagined that the Chinese culture and the quintessence of Chinese culture, including traditional Chinese medicine, are extremely unfamiliar to modern people today.When we look back on this period of history now, we may find that it is not only Chinese medicine that has been damaged. How much of the history, tradition, morality, culture, and value that Chinese people have been proud of for thousands of years is left now?All of this needs to be reflected by people who call themselves "Chinese".