Chapter 645: Chinese Medicine and Western Medicine (One More Flowers, Subscriptions)

Zhang Zheng said with a smile: "Actually, this phenomenon should be very common, they, including their families, will never joke with their bodies or lives, and they still believe in modern medicine at critical moments."

"What's fun, isn't traditional Chinese medicine known as specializing in the treatment of serious diseases and difficult diseases? However, I know a few friends in the field of Chinese medicine, and their or their family's surgeries are all done in modern hospitals, which makes me a little confused, is what they said true? Hu Manru said.

"It's simple, they're not confident in their profession. Heart problems are big enough, right? Tumor problem is a difficult disease, right? How many people with these diseases choose traditional Chinese medicine hospitals instead of specialized hospitals or modern hospitals? It has long been reported that many TCM masters will seek treatment from modern medicine almost without exception once they are replaced with major diseases. Zhang Zheng said.

"There are exceptions, right? It seems that some patients who cannot be cured well by modern medicine have to resort to Chinese medicine, which just shows that Chinese medicine is better than Western medicine. Hu Manru said with a smile.

"No matter how advanced medicine is, it is impossible to cure all diseases, and these patients have to seek treatment from Chinese medicine with the idea of treating a dead horse as a live horse doctor, but what is the result? Of course, it is conceivable, there are many deaths and few lives. Zhang Zheng said.

"But Chinese medicine has said that although Western medicine is effective, it can only treat the symptoms, and although Chinese medicine is slow, it can cure the root cause." Hu Manru said.

"This is the most fooling thing about Chinese medicine. If you have uremia, except for dialysis or kidney replacement, there is no better way, you let Chinese medicine treat the root cause, and when he slowly treats the root cause, he will already die. The blood vessels in the heart are seriously blocked, except for hemolysis, which is to make a stent, there is no better way, you let Chinese medicine treat the root cause, and when he slowly treats the root cause, he has already whined and lamented, and went to see Marx. Therefore, many diseases do not allow you to slowly cure the root cause. In fact, the so-called cure is fooling. Zhang Zheng said.

"Brother Zhang, don't forget, based on the theory of traditional Chinese medicine, traditional Chinese medicine processed with plants, animals, minerals and other raw materials can not only cure diseases, but also have no side effects, but it is a good thing." Hu Manru said.

"Manru, when it comes to traditional Chinese medicine, I have the most right to speak, if Chinese medicine itself is still very controversial about the development of Chinese history due to theoretical confusion, then Chinese medicine is relatively commendable, and some prescriptions do have amazing therapeutic effects. However, due to the fact that most of these prescriptions are the accumulation of previous experience, and have not been verified by strict double-blind tests, let alone the use of instruments to strictly test their effective chemical components, the efficacy of most prescriptions is doubtful. Zhang Zheng said.

"Oh, what you said is very reasonable, such as the soil of the east wall, the soil of the hearth, animal feces, hair, crotch, broom, etc., can be used in medicine, isn't this nonsense? What really works should be its chemical composition, how did the ancients know these chemical components? Nowadays, it should be very easy to test the chemical composition of these raw materials, but they always stick to the old formula, regardless of whether they are effective or not. Hu Manru said.

"Western medicine requires more than ten years of research and testing before it can be marketed, while traditional Chinese medicine has almost no such requirements, the reason is that these prescriptions have been used by the Chinese nation for thousands of years, and you say that it is not ridiculous. As a result, due to the increasing severity of poisoning by taking traditional Chinese medicine, the famous Beijing time-honored brand Tongrentang, known as the Poison Hall, produced hundreds of traditional Chinese medicine drugs that were found to exceed the standards of heavy metals such as lead, mercury and arsenic in Hong Kong, Europe and the United States. Therefore, it is difficult to say whether Chinese medicine is a good thing and whether it has toxic side effects. What is even more incomprehensible is that the main ingredients are not marked on the instructions of proprietary Chinese medicines, claiming to be for the sake of secret recipe secrecy. What's even more infuriating is that the side effects are not marked on the drug instructions! Zhang Zheng said.

"That's right, Western medicine not only has clear labels for ingredients, but also clear labels for side effects, but why don't Chinese medicines be labeled? It's too important for patients. Wang Chunlan interjected.

"There are two main reasons for not labeling side effects, one is that the pharmaceutical company is reluctant to label, and it is better to sell it than to label it, and the other is that the experiment is insufficient or not done at all, and no side effects are found, which should be the main reason. The experiment will take several years, and of course the company will not do it. The cost of the experiment is even more staggering, and the state and enterprises are unwilling to pay for it, so they simply don't do it. In this way, the broad masses of the people have become guinea pigs. This is the difference between the attitudes of capitalist and socialist countries towards the vital interests of the people. Zhang Zheng explained.

"Brother Zhang, you are a Chinese medicine doctor, should you defend Chinese medicine?" Barrister Qiu Ruyun said with a smile.

"Girl, didn't I say it, it is precisely because I am a TCM doctor that I have a better understanding of the dilemmas and problems faced by TCM, and how TCM should develop. I hate iron but not steel. Zhang Daguan said helplessly.