Chapter 849 East African Medicine

In some village primary schools, textbooks, teaching materials and teachers are very scarce, which is obviously not conducive to the development of basic education. However, merging several village primary schools into the town can greatly solve this problem.

This is also closely related to the layout of East African villages. East African villages are generally centered around a town, with several villages closely surrounding it, forming a layout of "moon surrounded by stars". On the contrary, if the village is too far away, it is obvious that promoting the concentration of educational resources will do more harm than good. After all, no one is willing to let their children walk more than ten miles to go to school.

Of course, if it is impossible to concentrate due to special reasons, the qualification to run a school can continue to be retained. This mainly depends on the specific local situation, and the local government will handle it at its discretion and then report it.

Ernst went on to say: "Healthcare is East Africa's weak point, or modern medicine. In this regard, we in East Africa must vigorously promote Chinese medicine clinics in rural areas and localize the Chinese medicine industry in East Africa."

The good thing about traditional Chinese medicine is that many of the medicinal herbs can be grown in the ground, so it can have an advantage in price.

Although modern drugs are more effective, East Africa is a latecomer in the field of modern medicine after all, and these drugs are extremely uncertain and not easy to crack.

Developed pharmaceutical and chemical companies in Europe and the United States have monopolized the patents for modern drugs, and East Africa cannot disassemble these modern chemical agents for analysis and research like the copycat "machines". After all, a slight mistake can lead to a huge loss, which can cost lives.

Therefore, modern medicine can only be explored slowly, and there is no shortcut. The only shortcut is to vigorously cultivate relevant talents and realize the ability of independent research and development as soon as possible.

Of course, this is somewhat absolute. East Africa naturally has its own channels to accelerate the wild growth of "modern medicine" in East Africa.

That is "human experimentation". After all, there are 20 million black people in East Africa, and these are very rare "materials". It's just that this belongs to the dark side of East African society, so I won't describe it in detail.

The large number of clinical trial opportunities means that East Africa's development speed in the medical field is actually not slow. Just like why India's medical industry, especially the pharmaceutical field, was so prominent in the past, it was because India had a lot of "materials" and a large natural drug testing field.

Of course, no matter how fast modern medicine develops in East Africa, it cannot be as fast as the direct adoption of traditional Chinese medicine in East Africa. Moreover, traditional Chinese medicine now has advantages in price and talent training, which is why East Africa vigorously promotes the popularization of traditional Chinese medicine.

Under the guidance of the East African Association of Traditional Chinese Medicine, the training of traditional Chinese medicine talents in East Africa has been institutionalized, and the apprenticeship system has been abandoned. At the same time, through "indigenous people", many shortcomings and errors in prescriptions have been made up and corrected. At the same time, because Africa's climate and geographical characteristics are very different from those of the Far East, traditional Chinese medicine in East Africa has added a number of new plant-based medicines.

In fact, Chinese medicine has been completely distorted in East Africa. Many Chinese medicine hospitals and schools are even equipped with microscopes, culture dishes and other modern medical equipment, which is completely different from the traditional Chinese medicine in the current Far East Empire.

And because of the "material", East African Chinese medicine has also developed rapidly in human anatomy. More detailed human body research has overturned many traditional cognitions and superstitions.

In the field of drug research and development, East African traditional Chinese medicine has made great strides. Of course, this is related to the weak "patent" awareness of the Far Eastern countries. Therefore, East Africa has vigorously cracked traditional prescriptions and reagents through various means such as "stealing, buying, borrowing", and then registered patents.

This was not just aimed at the Far East Empire, but also at countries including Japan, North Korea, Vietnam, etc. In addition to the East Asian cultural circle, India and the Arab region were also targets in East Africa.

The medical systems of these "backward" regions in the eyes of Europe and the United States are naturally looked down upon by the West, and are even discriminated against. However, East Africa is obviously not among them, and it has welcomed all comers.

In this environment, East African traditional Chinese medicine integrates the strengths of hundreds of schools and is supported by modern medical technology and methods. It is hard not to develop and grow. Even now, the boundary between East African traditional Chinese medicine and modern medicine is not very clear.

After all, if modern medicine can do something, I can do it too, and if it can't do something, I also have it too. In this case, if it weren't for some special medication habits and slight differences in treatment methods, it would be impossible to tell the difference.

Moreover, the achievements of East African traditional Chinese medicine will naturally be borrowed by East African modern medicine, so the two systems now have a trend of integration. If we do not deliberately prevent it, East Africa will form a modern traditional Chinese medicine system with Chinese medicine characteristics in the future.

Therefore, East Africa is now both a "weak country in medicine" and a "strong country in medicine", but it depends on how you compare it. Compared with European and American medicine, East African medicine has incorporated the medical achievements of East Asia and other regions. Compared with traditional Chinese medicine, East Africa has the strengths of European and American medicine.

As a result, East African medicine naturally took an extremely "special" path, but in Ernst's view this was a good thing.

This is because the medical systems in various regions are actually prejudiced against each other. For example, European religion and fundamentalist medicine will definitely have some conflicts and frictions with modern medicine deep in their hearts. Traditional medicine in the Far East does not recognize European and American medicine. Europeans and Americans believe that other medical systems are "heresy" and "evil magic."

East Africa has broken this kind of "arrogance and prejudice", and various schools of thought can communicate and compete with each other, giving a feeling of "a hundred schools of thought contending" in the medical community.

In Ernst's view, letting a hundred flowers bloom will naturally promote the development of East African medicine more quickly, so he is happy to see it happen. After all, it all depends on who has the best results. In the end, the final result will belong to East Africa anyway.

Of course, this is where East African medicine is strong, but it is also very weak. For example, in the cutting-edge areas of Western modern medicine, East Africa is certainly far behind, especially in some "miracle drugs" of chemical products.

The same is true for traditional Chinese medicine. Many traditional Chinese medicine practitioners are "closed-door and self-sufficient", and the Chinese medicine practitioners who immigrated to East Africa are definitely not the "top" ones in the Far East.

Of course, it is precisely because of this that East African Chinese medicine practitioners were able to break through conservative ideas and develop vigorously with Ernst's tacit approval. If they did not work hard, Ernst would not be able to help them even if he wanted to.

Currently, Chinese medicine clearly has an advantage in the medical system in East Africa, but as time goes by, it has also changed beyond recognition.

If East African traditional Chinese medicine groups go to the Far East in the future, they will probably be accused of being "heretics". In addition, East Africa has indeed "taken and borrowed" a lot of things, which is indeed a bit unfair.

Of course, East African traditional Chinese medicine is obviously still immature at present and has no chance to show itself to the international community. After all, neither Eastern nor Western society is likely to recognize the weird "East African medicine".

Moreover, the training of medical talents in East Africa requires a lot of time. It will take more than ten years to come up with a group of experienced "famous teachers". Now there are too few young people who can take on the responsibility.

As for the current "medical masters" in East Africa, their level is actually similar to that of some so-called "masters" in the modern Far Eastern Empire. Their level may not be very high, but as pioneers and forerunners, many of them will be able to leave their names in the history of East African medicine in the future. After all, the earlier the time, the greater the chance of becoming the founder of various disciplines of East African medicine.

They simply took the essence and discarded the dross from Eastern, Western and other parts of the world's medicine, which cannot be considered "independent innovation" in the full sense of the word.

(End of this chapter)