Chapter 0882 - The Fierce Debate of Chinese and Western Medicine

Su Tao had been on guard against Nicholas for a long time, and knew that there would be problems with today's connection, so Jaime's difficulty was expected by him, so he was not surprised at all.

"Since you mentioned science, what is science?" said Su Tao with a faint smile.

Science is a big concept, and I can't say enough in a few words, James smiled lightly, "The basis of science is facts and laws, not utopian dreams divorced from facts." Chinese medicine emphasizes vitality, but what exactly is this vitality? Is there a factual basis? Chinese medicine also has the saying of the five elements, what is gold, wood, water, fire, and earth? Can you explain these things in a visual way? If not, then it means that it is pseudoscience. ”

The audience was full of discussions, and James's point of view was sharp, Chinese medicine is not only a pseudoscience in the eyes of Westerners, but also mysterious in the eyes of Chinese people, because most modern people have been exposed to biology, physics and chemistry, and it is difficult to understand the theory of yin and yang and the five elements of Chinese medicine.

To use a simple analogy, many people know that Lao Tzu's Tao Te Ching is a great philosophical work, but few Chinese people know what the Tao Te Ching is about.

James's questioning resonated with the audience.

Su Tao used his medical skills to prove that he could treat others, but he couldn't make the audience understand that Chinese medicine is a trustworthy academic because its theories have many specious things and are very obscure.

However, the audience is disgusted with James's arrogance, Su Tao represents traditional Chinese medicine, Chinese medicine is the crystallization of Chinese civilization, James is a foreigner questioning Chinese medicine, which is equivalent to questioning Chinese civilization, and the audience with a little nationality is dissatisfied with James and will choose to stand on Su Tao's side.

Su Tao was a little surprised, he didn't expect James to still have some research on Chinese medicine, and he even knew the five elements and vitality, but he smiled faintly: "I didn't expect you to be so ignorant!"

As soon as Su Tao said this, many people who have studied Western medicine know James's name, he is the best general practitioner in the United States, proficient in various medical problems, and every doctor will refer to James's views when preparing his thesis. Not surprisingly, Jaime would be named one of the greatest contributors to modern medicine a hundred years later.

Otherwise, Ferry Company would not have paid a high salary.

Now Su Tao directly sprayed James as "ignorant", and after James heard Nicholas's translation, his face became gloomy, and he was very angry, because he would be accused by an unreasonable Chinese youth.

After Su Tao skillfully scolded people, of course, he had to give a reasonable explanation, he paused, and said with a smile: "You should have studied mathematics, right? What can you use to express addition, subtraction, multiplication and division in mathematics? You have also studied physics? What specific image can the energy of the law of conservation of energy be expressed?"

After listening to Nicholas's translation, James was stunned for a moment, because he couldn't answer Su Tao's question in a few words.

Jaime muttered, "You're stealing concepts. You can't doubt that Chinese medicine is actually witchcraft in primitive societies, right?"

Seeing that Jaime continued to attack, Su Tao smiled faintly, and in the first round of the confrontation, he obviously won the battle, and he asked rhetorically: "Isn't Western medicine based on witchcraft? The introduction of Western medicine into China originated more than a hundred years ago, when some missionaries entered China to spread doctrines and use medical skills to make the people accept their religion. There is essentially no difference between a missionary and a shaman. Moreover, Western medicine more than 100 years ago was also very ignorant, and in modern times, it is still using the barbaric method of 'bloodletting' to treat patients. Your country's founding president fell ill and the doctor drained nearly 2,500 milliliters of blood to Mr. President, who eventually died of hemorrhagic shock. In the history of Chinese medicine, there has never been such a ridiculous thing. ”

Traditional Chinese medicine has a history of thousands of years, and I have never heard of the imperial doctor curing the emperor to death, which is a great crime of robbing the family and exterminating the family.

Jaime originally wanted to make things difficult for Su Tao, but he didn't expect Su Tao to know the history of Western medicine well, and his speed of speech became a little urgent, "Please don't have such a one-sided view." Western medicine did experience ignorance, but now it has changed, and phlebotomy has now been abandoned. However, traditional Chinese medicine is still in a backward state, and the popularity of Western medicine is much higher than that of traditional Chinese medicine, which proves everything. ”

Su Tao smiled lightly and said: "The reason why Chinese medicine has not become popular is similar to the reason why Chinese has not become an international lingua franca. Western culture has been dominant for nearly a hundred years, so much so that everyone thinks that Western civilization is the best. However, with the continuous rise of China's international status, many foreigners now use Chinese as their first foreign language. Traditional Chinese medicine will slowly penetrate into other countries with the status of the country and become one of the mainstream medical techniques. Traditional Chinese medicine is not popular now, not because the theory is backward, but because many people do not understand what Chinese medicine is. But in the future, I believe that Huaxia TCM will definitely gather enough influence on a global scale. ”

Su Tao's wonderful debate instantly aroused the applause of the audience, although most of them are Western doctors, but they are all Chinese.

Su Tao's words ignited their national hearts, so they unswervingly supported Su Tao.

Someone below even said disdainfully: "What bullshit American experts, their vision is too low, although Chinese medicine is not popular, it still has something unique." ”

"Most Americans are arrogant and think they are superior to others, but they are only more than 300 years old. It is really rude to belittle other countries because you have no cultural background. The man next to him chimed in.

Unaware of the outrage he had caused, Jaime continued to argue: "I admit that there was a dark side to Western medicine, but we have now progressed and followed the scientific philosophy of observation, experimentation, statistics, and argumentation to provide medical care to the general public. However, Chinese medicine has always been based on personal subjective experience to diagnose diseases, and has used fictional idealism as a theory. In the past, the two may have been the same, but now Western medicine has long taken the lead. ”

Su Tao smiled disdainfully: "The efficacy of traditional Chinese medicine is demonstrated by traditional Chinese medicine in China a few years ago. Observation, experimentation, statistics, demonstration, these methods have been used. As for Western medicine, which is now ahead, it is too superficial, and the efficiency of treating certain diseases is not necessarily faster than that of Chinese medicine. For a simple example, for a slightly more complicated disease, you need to test your blood, liver function, etc., and it is not enough to do a regular examination for one day, while Chinese medicine is obviously not so cumbersome. ”

Jaime didn't expect Su Tao to mention the efficiency of Chinese and Western medicine, and suddenly came to his senses and said with a smile: "You actually say that Western medicine is slower than the efficiency of Chinese medicine? Western medicine is definitely ahead of Chinese medicine in emergency medicine. Don't you even know this common sense?"

Su Tao asked rhetorically, "Have you received traditional Chinese medicine treatment?"

"Of course, no," Jaime said quickly, "since I know that it is backward medicine, of course I will choose more advanced and scientific Western medicine." ”

"You have not received treatment from Chinese traditional Chinese medicine, how do you know that traditional Chinese medicine is at a disadvantage in emergency treatment? I think you are making the mistake of idealism and being extreme towards traditional Chinese medicine, so you have subjectively drawn conclusions. "Su Tao reciprocated the way of the other, didn't you say that Chinese medicine is idealistic, and now use Jaime's point of view to take a sharp counterattack.

Nicholas acted as a translator and sighed secretly, Su Tao is really not simple, in the battle of words, he and James are on par.

After waiting for Nicholas to finish translating, Jaime said, "Since you say so, then I will experience Chinese medicine for myself, don't you Chinese medicine practitioners say that you can see a person's condition by their faces?

Su Tao said in a deep voice: "Traditional Chinese medicine diagnoses the condition, not only through the physiognomy, but also through the pulse, and through this kind of video, I can't accurately see your complexion." ”

Jaime spread his hands and sneered haughtily, "That's a shame! I wanted to experience it for myself, but you didn't give me a chance." That was so disappointing. ”

Su Tao was angry in the face of Jaime's arrogance, but he made a mistake just now, like Jin Kang, he saw his illness, but he didn't admit it, and as a result, he could only put himself at a disadvantage.

Jin Kang was in front of him before, he could still entrust Assistant Ma to help test it, but James was far away in the United States, even if he found out about his condition, if he flatly denied it, but he had no way to prove James's illness to everyone, so this challenge could not be easily followed.

Su Tao pretended to be a little flustered and said: "The main thing is that I'm afraid that I will say that your illness is true, and if you don't admit it, then I can't help it." ”

Jaime laughed and said, "I can swear I would never tell a lie." However, I would like to remind you that I have regular check-ups every week and am in better health than the average person. ”

Su Tao was confident, but he was helpless, shook his head and smiled bitterly: "You are actually not healthy at all, and you have a very serious illness." Because it involves your privacy, I write it to you. You don't know kanji, so I'll translate it to you in English. Please give me an email address. ”

The communication between the two has been done through Nicholas's translation.

Jaime didn't know what medicine Su Tao was selling in his gourd, so he reported his usual email address to Su Tao.

Su Tao then edited a message on his mobile phone and sent it to James's mailbox, and after James clicked on it, his face showed a look of shock, and he was speechless for a while. All the audience saw James's expression and knew that Su Tao had seen James's condition.

"You're slandering and slandering!" said Jaime, who had lost his former ease and temper, his tone becoming extremely irritable.

Nicholas was surprised and asked, "James, what's wrong?"

Jaime exclaimed, "He's a complete liar, and I can't tolerate any further communication with someone like that." ”

After speaking, he directly cut off the video connection.

Nicholas was dumbfounded, completely unexpecting the situation to develop like this, as Jaime had been in the driver's seat throughout the course of this debate.

At the end of the video, Jaime looked haggard, as if he was old in an instant, and it was hard for him to imagine that Su Tao actually saw his secret through the video, which was really amazing.

He had studied traditional Chinese medicine, and a doctor named Bian Que saw through his eyes that the king was seriously ill, so he thought that it was a legend and a myth, and that unless the human eye had the function of see-through, it could see the patient's internal condition in the same way as B-ultrasound, X-ray, MRI and other machines.

But now that his mind was starting to waver, Su Tao did see his secret.

He has kept this secret very well, and even his wife and daughter don't know it.