Chapter 66 Chinese Medicine Backdoor Revival Plan (Part II)
In later generations, many people argued all day long about Chinese medicine and Western medicine on the Internet, but in fact, in Li Zhigao's view, many of the arguments were not in the right direction, because the real modern Chinese medicine is essentially no different from modern Western medicine, and it is modern medicine that uses scientific means to practice medicine, and both Western medicine and Chinese medicine are backward empirical medicine before the development of modern medicine.
That's right, traditional Chinese medicine does have traditional secret recipes such as botanicals and mineral medicines, and there are also health regimens that contain clouds and mountains and fog covers such as the five elements and gossip, but in addition to those fantasy and mysterious things, these things are essentially an empirical treatment, and they are valuable medical experiences obtained by the Chinese nation in their long-term life, which may not be scientific enough, or not rigorous enough, but after all, they are still effective.
In fact, Western society has also had such a stage, Western medicine has also had traditional Western medicine, and there has also been a glorious history, such as ancient Greek and Roman medicine, medieval Arab herbal medicine, etc., are this kind of empirical medicine, its heritage and therapeutic effect is not inferior to Chinese medicine, but most Chinese do not understand these conditions, plus self-esteem and other thoughts, only disdain those things, but also find various reasons to their own Chinese medicine gold, what Chinese people rely on Chinese medicine to inherit to this day, That's just that many people.
In Li Zhigao's view, that's pure nonsense, people in the West won't live without you Chinese medicine? As for the number of people, it has nothing to do with traditional Chinese medicine, it is purely the role of geographical environment, agricultural science and technology, humanistic traditions and other factors.
Since both China and the West have had the stage of traditional and splendid empirical medicine, why did Chinese medicine later become a deceptive thing in the eyes of everyone, and Western medicine was praised on the altar?
In Li Zhigao's view, the reason is very simple, it is not that traditional Chinese medicine is not good, in the final analysis, it is that China has been weak for hundreds of years, and scientific progress in other aspects has been interrupted, thus interrupting the evolution of traditional Chinese medicine.
In other words, the so-called Western medicine is not so magical and scientific at the beginning, they have also experienced a tortuous development process, and they have also had a stage of ignorance, and even in ancient times, many methods of Western medicine were more ignorant than Chinese medicine, such as bloodletting therapy in the Middle Ages, witch medicine and so on.
With the progress of a series of overall technologies such as chemistry, physics, biology, and human anatomy, Western medicine has changed the ignorance of Western medicine and evolved into modern medicine. On the contrary, traditional Chinese medicine is not so lucky, the country's long-term weakness, the long-term stagnation of science and technology as a whole, which makes the development of science and technology in other industries sluggish, but also delays the evolution of traditional Chinese medicine.
What is Modern Medicine? The foundation of modern medicine is to start from science, from the source of illness, to find out the real cause of illness, and then to find out the treatment method for the surname, such as the development of anti-drug and so on.
In fact, not only modern medicine, all medicine is this routine, for example, Chinese medicine is expected to hear and ask, there are also a lot of fantasy things such as the unity of heaven and man, the five elements and gossip, in fact, these methods are fundamentally through the most simple methods, to find the source of illness, and then to find a cure for the surname, but the ancient people lacked scientific means, so they added a little fantasy. For example, ancient Chinese medicine has a lot of factors such as fortune-telling, and ancient Western medicine also has a lot of divination factors.
Both Chinese and Western medicine have developed in this way, but with the scientific progress of Western society, Western medicine has also run faster and faster, and gradually distanced itself from Chinese medicine, until a key invention appeared - the microscope, with the microscope, with microbiology, Western medicine has officially embarked on a leap forward development, completely leaving the still slow, not only not moving forward, but even backward Chinese medicine far away.
In fact, Chinese medicine has always had rich and valuable experience, such as some effective Chinese herbal medicines, such as acupuncture, massage, cupping, etc., are more effective means, but unfortunately most of these valuable experiences lack inheritance, and lack of scientific and pragmatic spirit and conditions, and finally gradually declined, leaving more legends and secret recipes that do not know the truth or falsehood, and the gap with Western medicine is getting bigger and bigger.
What many people don't know is that many acupuncture, massage, cupping and other treatment methods in later generations, as well as the so-called secret recipes of traditional Chinese medicine, are actually mostly modern Chinese medicine under the banner of ancient prescriptions.
That is to say, it doesn't matter what kind of medicine is called, the key is to see who makes faster progress, who can arm themselves with science first, and who can step into the threshold of modern medicine one step earlier.
In later generations, because of the large gap between Chinese and Western medicine, this led to most people's blind trust in Western medicine and various denigrations of Chinese medicine.
But that's the future generations, for now, although Western medicine is much stronger than Chinese medicine, it's not that it can't catch up, such as antibiotics, which is also a big murderous aura of medical progress, it's this thing that completely defeats Chinese medicine, but now, who says it has to appear in the Western medical world?
Li Zhigao believes that as long as he carries out the practice of modern medicine under the banner of traditional Chinese medicine, relies on the technology and equipment obtained by modern times, and then improves the overall scientific research strength of the national strength, and produces some truly effective drugs and therapies, then why does modern medicine have to be called Western medicine instead of traditional Chinese medicine? Why should the holy land of medicine in the future be abroad, but not in China?
It was with this idea in mind that Li Zhigao insisted on saying that all his medicines were Chinese medicine formulas, and his treatment was Chinese medicine, not the name of Western medicine.
Li Zhigao is no longer short of money now, and there are more ways to make money, so he is not in a hurry to make money by relying on drugs, so he plans to rely on modern drugs in his hands little by little to revive traditional Chinese medicine.
Even if Westerners don't accept Li Zhigao's drugs very much now, as long as the efficacy and medical methods are clear, then with the passage of time, sooner or later, the whole world will accept his "Chinese medicine" and "Chinese medicine".
No matter how arrogant Westerners are, they are pragmatic in their bones, and when facing diseases and threats to their lives, and when facing methods and medicines that can cure these diseases, they can only choose to face reality and Chinese medicine. Of course, at that time, Chinese medicine should be called modern Chinese medicine, and Li Zhigao, who created everything, will undoubtedly become a master.
At that time, as long as China's medical field leads the world, then we can also set up an organization similar to the FDA and become the world's most authoritative food and drug regulatory agency. Who would dare to say that Chinese medicine is a lie?
Although the idea is good, in terms of specific implementation, there must also be a strategy, so Li Zhigao only cooperated with the half-hospital and half-church Shengai Church opened by foreigners at the beginning, just to use the mouths of foreigners to promote his good traditional Chinese medicine.
At first, it was just to provide free drugs and let them get clinical reports, but you think, as the efficacy gets better and better, and there are more and more cured cases, the other party will definitely believe in themselves more and more, and the more inseparable they will be, and at that time, they can make the next plan.
To put it simply, Li Zhigao is in the church hospital of foreigners, asking foreigner doctors to hold a variety of modern medical equipment under the banner of traditional Chinese medicine equipment, and use various modern drugs under the banner of traditional Chinese medicine to treat the majority of Chinese and foreigners, and speak with iron-clad facts.
After receiving many modern medicines, modern medical equipment and modern medical methods, the Shengai Church has cured more and more patients, and its reputation has become more and more famous, and the Shengai Church has become more and more inseparable from itself, and it has become more and more convinced of what it says about traditional Chinese medicine, and has basically recognized its own so-called scientific version of traditional Chinese medicine.
Later, Li Zhigao destroyed the patrol battalion of Taiping Mansion and became the actual head of Taiping Mansion, with great power in his hands, and the time was more ripe, so Li Zhigao decided to further deepen cooperation with Shengai Church, that is, to build the first "Department of Modern Chinese Medicine" in Taiping University under the guise of teaching Chinese medicine and actually teaching modern medical knowledge.
The establishment of this modern Chinese medicine department is to give Shengai Tong a way and platform to study Chinese medicine, and the head of this Chinese medicine department is also very unique, not Chinese, but Edford, who is an American, the reason why an American director of the Department of Chinese Medicine is mainly to facilitate the promotion of Chinese medicine.
What nationality is the world, in Li Zhigao's view, that is pure nonsense, you just play your own nation, other nationalities may not buy it, so if you want to promote your own culture, you must have a heart to embrace the world from the beginning, and you must go international from the beginning, and you must not rest on your laurels.
Therefore, the culture that can really sweep the world must be a more diverse, more inclusive culture, the same is true of medicine, the reason why Western medicine later swept the world, not only because of the advance into modern medicine, that kind of pragmatic and rigorous pluralistic atmosphere is also very important, only from the beginning of the national boundaries, Chinese medicine can truly go global.
It was because of this idea that Li Zhigao asked foreigners to study traditional Chinese medicine, and Li Zhigao, the real boss, only became the principal and professor of medicine of this Taiping school.
After all, Li Zhigao agreed, as long as he agreed to be the director and go to the school to give lectures on time, then in the future, Shengai Church will not only continue to be provided by Li Zhigao with funds, medicines, medical equipment and new medical methods, but also will not hinder them from preaching, there is such a good thing, why not do it?
However, in terms of preaching, Li Zhigao also has regulations, that is, it cannot be forced, but to set up a special Saint-Love Church Volunteer Love Association, the members of which are voluntary volunteers, unpaid kind of work, these people are responsible for providing some financial and spiritual help to some patients who come to the institute for treatment, so that the patients can voluntarily believe in religion, anyway, the idea of the Saint-Love Church is that the soul believes in God, ** science, no conflict.
In this way, the Department of Modern Chinese Medicine of Taiping University has become the most important department of Taiping University, Li Zhigao not only provides funds, drugs, medical equipment and modern medical knowledge support, but also regularly comes to give lectures in person, and the lectures are naturally modern medicine, but Li Zhigao talks mostly about how to find common diseases, how to treat common diseases, naturally, the means of treatment are not out of injections and medicines.
No way, Li Zhigao is not from traditional Chinese medicine, although there are many modern Chinese medicine theories and physical therapies in later generations, such as acupuncture therapy, and massage therapy, but he only has information, but he doesn't understand it, so he just threw this information to Edfu and asked him to find a way to study and promote it, while Li Zhigao himself explained what he knew, that is, the so-called Western medical methods of later generations dressed in the cloak of traditional Chinese medicine.
Because Li Zhigao's lectures are very advanced, not only Chinese students, but also many foreign doctors from Shengai Church also went in to study, after all, although Shengai Church can use some free medicines, but to systematically learn new medical methods, you have to go to the modern Chinese medicine department in Taiping University.
In addition, Li Zhigao and Edfu also have a cooperation agreement, any results "researched" in the Department of Traditional Chinese Medicine in Taiping Mansion, especially the kind of research results provided by Li Zhigao, are jointly owned by Taiping University, Li Zhigao and Edford, unless Edford can innovate some effective new method by himself, such results can be jointly owned by him and Taiping University, otherwise, as long as it is based on the research provided by Li Zhigao, Li Zhigao will score a share.
At least so far, that Edford is very obedient, and he has shown a lot of work ethic, as if he has really found a big treasure, and he has been studying the "traditional Chinese medicine" provided by Li Zhigao all day long, and he is a little bit of a waste of sleep and food.
However, it is not difficult to understand that the things that Li Zhigao took out, regardless of whether they were dressed in the skin of traditional Chinese medicine or not, were essentially the research results of later generations, and in 1910, these medical knowledge from later generations were a real treasure, a big treasure that people could not extricate themselves.
Not to mention anything else, just the various pathogenic viruses and bacteria introduced in medical microbiology that have not yet been discovered in this era, if these results are verified and published step by step, the Nobel Prize will not run!
"Okay, that's all for today." After talking for most of the day, Li Zhigao finally cleared his throat, "In the next class, we will continue to talk about the formation and transmission of the plague, what is the manifestation, and how to prevent and treat it, well, that's it, class!" ”
After that, the students stood up again and said together, "Goodbye, teacher." ”
Hearing this, Li Zhigao just nodded, stopped playing any slogans, and then walked directly off the podium, in this way, the class is over.
Seeing that Li Zhigao had finished his lecture, Yin Ruizhi, who was listening to the question marks in his head, just wanted to walk over and ask something, but suddenly found that a young foreign woman with long pale blonde hair and turquoise eyes rushed over, directly blocked Li Zhigao's way, and then grabbed Li Zhigao's sleeve and began to ask questions cracklingly.
At the beginning, the blonde and blue-eyed white woman asked in Chinese, and later said that she was in a hurry, and actually talked about foreign language, and Li Zhigao only smiled bitterly, standing there and constantly answering her questions, but did not mean to force out.
After finally answering the question of the pale blonde long-haired woman, the blonde woman nodded in surprise, and then actually hugged Li Zhigao's neck in front of everyone, kissed him the face, and waited for a big lipstick mark on Li Zhigao's face, then left with a smile, and returned to the group of students to talk and laugh, but Yin Ruizhi was dumbfounded.
Sending the blonde girl away, Li Zhigao sighed, wiped the post-mouth marks on the face that had been kissed, walked up to the stunned Yin Ruizhi, and shook his head: "What are you looking at, you are so stupid." ”
"She, ...... you" Yin Ruizhi pointed to the blonde woman who was chatting with her classmates, but looked back here from time to time, "How is she...... How to ......"
"What, how?"
"Who is she?"
"Who? It's one of my students. ”
"Then how can you pay it back, and ...... it"
"Oh, normal, this is an American female nurse named Linda, usually fine, but once she is excited, it is like this, I answered a few questions for her, and she was so excited that she couldn't help herself." Li Zhi shrugged his shoulders, "This is not the first time, I'm used to it." ”
"But, but she ......" Yin Ruizhi's face turned red, "You, why don't you refuse?" ”
"Refusal? It seems that you really don't understand, in the West, it is impolite to refuse an unsolicited kiss from a lady, forget it, let's not talk about these things for now. Li Zhigao rolled his eyes, then wiped his face again, and then stretched his face, "Hey, don't talk about that, help me take a look, are there any lipstick marks?" If you have one, just point it out for me, I don't want to just print it out with lipstick and it will affect my image! ”
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