Old people are definitely conservative, especially these old Chinese medicine practitioners,
Their generation is not like those Chinese doctors who are mass-produced through current university education, so they are very strict in following the "ancestors'" methods.
"The laws of our ancestors cannot be changed" is the common belief of the older generation. Of course, whether it is right or wrong will be judged by the public.
Traditional Chinese medicine as understood by veteran Chinese medicine practitioners must appear in the form of prescriptions. They have never thought of making them into tablets, capsules, or the like, let alone taking Chinese medicine to Western medicine laboratories for research.
In their view, this is a manifestation of Chinese medicine being inferior to Western medicine, and many people will certainly oppose it.
The older you get, the more stubborn you become and the less willing you are to change.
Not everyone is like the old man who said, "A cat is a good cat, no matter if it is black or white, as long as it catches mice."
Mr. Tang mentioned with some concern:
"Xiao Chen, if you use the same Western medicine method with standardized dosages and specifications, it wouldn't be very appropriate. After all, the patients' conditions vary in severity, and the physiques of men, women, young and old vary greatly."
The principle of Chinese medicine prescriptions is to prescribe one prescription for each person. The Chinese medicine practitioner needs to adjust the quantity, type and dosage of the medicine according to each person's specific situation.
The dosage of Western medicine is fixed. For example, amoxicillin capsules are 0.5g per capsule. No matter whether you are old or young, female or male, skinny or fat, you need to take one capsule three times a day.
This seems very "unscientific" to Chinese medicine practitioners, who think it is too general and irresponsible.
But on the other hand, when Western doctors see Chinese medicine practitioners, they also feel that Chinese medicine practitioners are too unreliable. They ask how much a certain herb costs, and how do you calculate that?
What's the ideal therapeutic dose? Will a few cents less be effective? Will a few cents more be toxic? Do you have any laboratory data to support this?
You have nothing and have to rely entirely on the doctor's own "rough estimates". If you happen to meet a "Mongolian doctor" who prescribes medicines and prescriptions indiscriminately, it is easy to cause liver and kidney toxicity. This Chinese medicine is too unscientific.
Look, Chinese medicine and Western medicine dislike each other and call each other "unscientific". This is the simplest contradiction between Chinese and Western medicine.
Upon hearing Mr. Tang Xudong's concerns, the other veteran Chinese doctors calmed down and agreed.
If traditional Chinese medicine adopts the research and production methods of Western medicine, regardless of its efficacy, is the resulting medicine considered traditional Chinese medicine or Western medicine?
Mr. Wang Yinlin also expressed his concerns:
"Xiao Chen, I think what everyone said makes sense. For Chinese medicine practitioners, it's best to use traditional methods in front of patients. Don't change them easily. If the changes are good, it's fine, but if the changes are bad, good medicine can turn into poison."
"Yeah, yeah, I think so too."
"It's best if Chinese medicine is supervised by our doctors. We have to be responsible to our patients, right?"
"Boss Chen, would you like to reconsider this?"
For a while, there was a lot of discussion in the conference room, with all kinds of opinions, but most Chinese medicine practitioners still preferred to use traditional methods to promote Chinese medicine.
Chen Xia smiled and said to Mr. Wang Yinlin and the others:
"Everyone's concerns are justified. Treating patients based on their individual circumstances is a principle that every Chinese medicine practitioner should master. But have you ever considered that not every Chinese medicine practitioner has the high level of skill that you all have?"
Chen Xia is a reborn person and has seen too many "triangle cat" Chinese medicine doctors.
These doctors are mass-produced from schools without traditional apprenticeship, so their foundation is not very solid, and what they learn and use is completely "dogmatism."
So while they talk about dialectics, the prescriptions they actually prescribe are just some bland and unremarkable ones.
They prescribe medicine just as it is taught in the book. As for differentiation or dosage changes, they don't even dare to add or subtract an ingredient to a prescription.
It is better to have no effect on the treatment than to change the diet and then develop dietary problems, which will lead to a lawsuit.
This is also the reason why Chen Xia asked these famous Chinese medicine practitioners to use the traditional teaching method to train their own apprentices.
In ancient times, when you studied Chinese medicine, you would first do odd jobs for three years, such as moving and cutting herbs in a pharmacy, or going to the wild to collect herbs.
During these three years, the master did not give him any books to read.
But I would observe them and sometimes talk about the methods of processing and distinguishing good medicines. In the process of doing rough work, the apprentices learned some Chinese medicines and basic processing methods.
To learn Chinese medicine, you must first understand and learn about many medicinal herbs, right?
Three years later, the master would bring some books such as "Treatise on Febrile Diseases", "Golden Chamber" and "Yellow Emperor's Internal Classic" for them to read.
At the beginning, there was no explanation, just some content from the book recited as required every day.
Generally, when the master was treating patients, they could only listen, help get medicine, read the medical records that the master had copied down during the day, etc.
This process can take as short as 3 years or as long as 5 years.
After 6 to 8 years of apprenticeship, your master will see that you have good talent and good character, and then it will be time to teach you real skills.
The master will explain the contents of the book, some methods of diagnosing and treating diseases, and some pharmacological decoctions and pulse analysis. For some inner disciples, the master will also teach you some unique secret recipes.
The formal process of apprenticeship and learning medicine takes about 7 years, and only after passing the master's assessment will you be allowed to practice medicine independently.
The entire process of "studying medicine" to becoming a master takes at least 14 years. It can be said that it is very difficult to train a Chinese medicine practitioner.
Let’s look back at the current universities of traditional Chinese medicine. In just five years, they have mass-produced a group of college entrance examination candidates who have no foundation in traditional Chinese medicine and Chinese medicine to become Chinese medicine doctors. But how many of them have real skills?
Most of them probably can't even clearly tell how many varieties of Chinese medicinal materials there are, what they look like, and what their properties and functions are.
There are also some "Chinese and Western medicine majors" which are purely a wolf in sheep's clothing. They claim to be studying Chinese medicine, but in the end they use Western medicine in clinical practice when they work.
That's it, it's still good,
There are also some "Mongolian doctors" who don't know where their knowledge comes from. They have no idea what dosage to use, and they are very bold and dare to prescribe strong and fierce drugs, which leads to a lot of side effects.
This is the chaos of traditional Chinese medicine in later generations.
Famous Chinese medicine practitioners have medical skills, medical ethics, bottom line and level, so the prescriptions they prescribe are truly tailored to each patient and are very effective.
But there will be fewer and fewer such famous Chinese medicine practitioners in the future, and the "great masters" will only be found in a few top medical institutions and schools.
Moreover, this group of people only serves a small number of people, and ordinary patients will not encounter them.
Another way to end this chaos is to adopt a set of theories and testing and extraction methods of Western medicine to fix the dosage.
Use the medicine within a reasonable range, neither too much nor too little, and do not use it indiscriminately.
This conflicts with the principles of traditional Chinese medicine, but in Chen Xia's opinion, this is the only way forward.
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