"The study of life is based on the concept of noble and respectful life, and then achieves "whole life" through the methods of rebirth, health preservation and hygiene. What is the meaning of "whole life"? In "Lü's Spring and Autumn Period", it is proposed that "the six desires are all satisfied," that is, the whole life.

What I am saying is to illustrate that Chinese medicine is now more focused on treatment, and we need to make the scope of Chinese medicine more extensive, not only limited to treatment, but also to explain health preservation, treatment and related principles clearly. Chinese health care is unique in shijie. Therefore, it is necessary to construct a living science to raise Chinese medicine to the theoretical level. Traditional Chinese medicine is not a simple disease medicine, but a comprehensive humanistic life science with rich humanistic and cultural connotations, including philosophy, art, religion, etc., and is a study about life wisdom and life art.

Now Chinese medicine has mutated!"

When Wang Ming finished speaking, a student from a foreign country stood up and bowed to Wang Ming and asked: "Teacher, I am from abroad, I like Chinese medicine very much, but I don't know much about the history of Chinese medicine.

"Well, you sit down first, you may also have doubts about this question, it is not surprising that the environment you live in makes you confused, weishenme I said that the current Chinese medicine and the previous Chinese medicine have changed, our current Chinese medicine has been alienated by Western medicine, and the theories and methods of Chinese medicine are moving closer to Western medicine, and there are many problems.

First of all, in terms of concept, for a long time, we have a prejudice against Chinese medicine, philosophy and even Chinese culture, believing that China has no philosophy, no medicine, no science, and has been backward for a long time. But in fact, this bias arises from the fact that many people use Western cultural models or characteristics as a standard to measure our TCM, philosophy and science. In fact, TCM has a set of self-contained theories that we need to understand.

In terms of diagnosis and treatment, "looking, hearing, asking and cutting" is rarely used, and traditional Chinese medicine is more about taking medicine. Contrary to the content in the "Yellow Emperor's Neijing", at present, acupuncture and massage account for only two-tenths of the current traditional Chinese medicine treatment. Seven or eight out of 10 are prescribed medicines, and in specific treatments, there will be a large number of standardized prescriptions and Western medical diagnosis and treatment methods, such as blood tests, CT and surgery. Now many of our doctors don't see patients, they only look at lab tests.

In the past, the medical ethics of Chinese medicine were more about dissolving morality into family relationships. Paying attention to the "heart of the doctor's parents", "the old and the old, the young and the young", the relationship between doctors and patients is more like a family relationship. This may seem more like advocating a kind of selfishness, but in traditional Chinese culture, it actually contains the greatest selflessness. Because in Chinese culture, family affection is not reciprocated. If this kind of medical ethics were applied to the modern doctor-patient relationship, the doctor-patient relationship would not be so tense today.

There is also the division of labor in society, the necessary division of labor is progress, and the excessive division of labor is progress or regression, which remains to be studied. In traditional Chinese medicine, the emphasis is on "looking, smelling, asking, and cutting", and cutting the pulse is the most basic skill, but now many Chinese medicine practitioners don't even know how to cut the pulse. There are even TCM doctors who claim that they do not recognize Chinese medicine. Only medications will be prescribed. Only know the name of the medicine. Traditional Chinese medicine is actually vague and clear, for medicinal materials, the specific origin, collection time, processing time and means are very particular, and the slightest mistake may lead to deviations in treatment. But now, those who grasp medicine do not know how to collect medicine, and those who collect medicine do not know how to make medicine. The wild ones became artificially farmed, and the efficacy of the medicine was questionable. Not to mention a lot of fake medicines. There are problems in all links, and our Chinese medicine has been alienated. It's sad. …,

Today, I will tell you this, that is, let you continue to carry forward our traditional culture, and the development of traditional Chinese medicine should awaken our consciousness of the main body of Chinese culture, and it is up to you to awaken them!

Although many of our traditional Chinese medicine are out of shape, in fact, it has developed well abroad, and foreigners also have a certain ability to discriminate. We Chinese ourselves don't believe in Chinese medicine, and that's a big problem. But the problem is the opposite, Chinese people do not believe in Chinese medicine, and perhaps Westerners believe in Chinese medicine more. According to statistics, about 50% of foreign students who come to study in China are here to study traditional Chinese medicine. So it really doesn't work, and we can only "export to domestic sales" in the future. Because the Chinese people's thoughts of worshipping the West in the past hundred years are too serious, if it is said by a foreigner, it is easy for him to believe it, but he does not believe what the Chinese ancestors said, so he can only use such a psychology to express the core concepts of Chinese medicine in a modern way, such as natural therapy, homeopathy and psychotherapy, such as attaching importance to prevention, such as respecting life, through some means, to explain these concepts clearly, to transform the traditional concepts of Chinese medicine, and to use modern means to serve Chinese medicine. If you all start working hard, I think Chinese medicine will definitely go to shijie, but don't rush it, take your time, you need to do your work in a down-to-earth manner. ”

"Teacher, do you have anything you would like to summarize about the development of Chinese medicine?"

"If Chinese medicine wants to develop, it needs to change from the roots, and the most important thing is to work hard in two aspects, one is ideology, and the other is education.

First of all, it is necessary to awaken our consciousness of the main body of Chinese culture. It's not that we don't have science, philosophy, and medicine, and we can't structure Chinese culture with Western thinking. The difference between Chinese and Western cultures is actually a type of difference. And this type of difference makes it possible for different cultures to communicate and complement each other. Therefore, it is very urgent for us to return to our own cultural subjects and establish and study the theoretical system of our own culture according to our own cultural characteristics, rather than using the theories summarized by Western culture to study our culture. The same is true of traditional Chinese medicine, which cannot be studied with Western values and ways of thinking. The way of thinking of Chinese and Western cultures is different, and if you insist on piecing them together, you can only be a distorted culture in Zuihou.

Second, TCM education needs to be reformed. Nowadays, people who teach and learn Chinese medicine do not have a correct understanding and grasp of Chinese medicine, and I will emphasize these times again and again today because this is the most fundamental problem. Our teaching, including the teaching of traditional Chinese medicine schools, is using Western concepts to deconstruct our traditional concepts, there are "scientific superstitions", and many concepts of Chinese medicine have been misinterpreted. Therefore, we should learn more from the sages!" (To be continued......) …… ，