"Yes, that's what we should do. Since Yun Heng is so useful, why not use him?"
Ma Tiequan said with a smile.
Behind her, Michelle glared at Ma Tiequan and asked, "What do you mean Yun Heng is useful?"
"Okay, Doctor Yun, please go ahead."
Hu Wenyi felt a little helpless.
Yun Heng is young, and being young has its advantages.
If it were Yue Anyun and the others, they would be considered of the same generation as Hu Wenyi and the others, so it would be understandable if they quarreled with each other or even acted unreasonably occasionally.
But Yunheng is a young man, not even thirty years old.
Normally, I have no right to sit here, but since everyone has already acknowledged it, I can't say anything more now.
They are qualified to speak and they are young. How can the older generation stop the young people from speaking?
You can't appear to be afraid of young people, right?
Yun Heng smiled politely and said, "Since we are talking about Traditional Chinese Medicine, we must first understand what it is. Traditional Chinese Medicine is not limited to herbs or chemical drugs. Plant roots and sap, animal hair, bones, and even stones can all be used as medicine. The discovery and use of traditional Chinese medicine can be traced back to Shennong."
"In the Huainanzi Xiuwu Xun, it is recorded: 'In ancient times, people ate grass and drank water, gathered fruit from trees, and ate the flesh of locusts. Diseases and poisons abounded. So Shennong began teaching people how to sow grains, assessing the suitability of the land for dryness, moisture, fertility, barrenness, height, and lowness. He tasted hundreds of herbs and the sweetness and bitterness of springs, and instructed the people on what to avoid. At that time, people encountered seventy poisons in a single day.'"
"Xiao Yun really reads a lot of books. He can easily quote from classics."
Liang Wanming said with a smile.
"Yes, the eight years I spent in the library were not in vain." Ma Tiequan nodded with a smile.
Chen Fanming, who was also in the core area, kept staring at Yun Heng.
Chen Fanming was very surprised by Yun Heng’s speech just now. Now that Yun Heng continued to talk about traditional Chinese medicine and Chinese medicine, Chen Fanming was even more looking forward to it.
"From this record, we can see that traditional Chinese medicine was actually born before traditional Chinese medicine."
Yun Heng said slowly, "Initially, the people ate raw meat and drank blood, and had no knowledge of medicine. It was only through experimentation that they gradually learned that certain things could treat illnesses, and thus began to apply them. Through this gradual application, a complete, systematic medical system was formed."
"If Traditional Chinese Medicine is a tool, then Chinese medicine is the method of using it. Chinese medicine practitioners have spent thousands of years researching how to use this tool, constantly improving and accumulating knowledge. To date, they cannot claim to have fully mastered its use. Now, are we going to abandon the method that Chinese medicine practitioners have studied for thousands of years and use a new method? Is that appropriate?"
"Let alone thousands of years, even tens of thousands of years, if something is wrong, it must be improved. Humanity has been around for tens of thousands of years, and before that, there were no airplanes. Yet, in the past hundred years, society has undergone rapid changes."
Xie Kaiyang said: "Whether it is right or wrong cannot be determined by the length of time."
"Mr. Xie is right."
Yun Heng said, "Mr. Xie still doesn't understand what I mean."
Xie Kaiyang was stunned.
Yun Heng continued, "I personally don't oppose the research of Chinese medicinal herbs, or more accurately, the development of new drugs. Whether they are plant-based or chemically based, they can all be studied. The emergence of new drugs is always beneficial to patients. But what is the current research direction? From the perspective of Traditional Chinese Medicine, using Traditional Chinese Medicine's understanding and thinking to study, and then completely abandoning Traditional Chinese Medicine when prescribing drugs, is this correct?"
"They used Chinese medicine, its insights and experience, but then they abandoned it and came back to blame it when they needed to take the blame?"
"Modern medicine has its own research directions. It's all about free research, but what are the current research directions? A certain Chinese herbal medicine cured heart disease, so a certain plant had an ingredient that was effective for heart disease, so we extracted it and used it. A certain prescription cured hepatitis, so we found an ingredient that was effective for liver virus, so we extracted it and used it?"
"When Chinese medicine uses Chinese herbs, it never uses their components, but rather their properties, the performance of the herbs. It then relies on these properties to complement each other, form prescriptions, and restore the body's internal balance."
"The characteristics of traditional Chinese medicine are mainly reflected in two aspects: one is Qi, and the other is flavor. What does Qi refer to? It refers to the cold, hot, warm, and cool properties of the medicinal materials, also known as the four Qi. For example, mint gives people a cool feeling, and its Qi is cool. Ginger gives people a warm feeling, and its Qi is warm. Different medicines have different Qi. Even if they are both cool, they can be divided into cold and cool properties. Traditional Chinese medicine relies on the Qi of the medicine to correct the imbalance of cold and heat in the human body during the disease state. It never targets any specific viruses or toxins. Can this alone prove that it is effective against any virus?"
"The taste of Chinese medicine refers to its flavor, that is, the feeling of the taste buds on the medicine. Generally speaking, there are five flavors: sour, bitter, sweet, pungent, and salty, so they are also called the five flavors. Some medicinal materials have no special flavor and are called light flavors. In actual clinical practice, pungent flavors often have an opening and dispersing effect. Just like when we have a cold, a headache, or aversion to cold, we often boil a bowl of ginger soup, cover ourselves with a quilt, take a nap, sweat, and feel relaxed. This is exactly the same principle. Sour flavors have astringent and astringent effects, salty flavors have laxative and softening effects, and sweet flavors have tonic and soothing effects, and so on..."
"Mr. Xie and Mr. Hu are both great experts, well-versed in both Chinese and Western culture. They must know these basics, right? Is there any element of this?"
"I'll go, I've learned a lot."
"So that's how it is."
“I really didn’t understand it before.”
Some people who were not doctors nearby suddenly understood what was said.
Many people actually don’t understand what Chinese medicine relies on when it uses Chinese medicinal materials to treat diseases. Is it a certain ingredient in the medicine?
Now after listening to Yun Heng’s explanation, many people realized that it actually relied on the four qi and five flavors.
Hu Wenyi and Xie Kaiyang opened their mouths but couldn't find the right words to refute.
They all understood and knew all these things. Precisely because they knew, they knew that Yun Heng was not talking nonsense and that every word he said was well-founded.
"Traditional Chinese medicine is based on the properties of Chinese medicinal materials. When Shennong tasted hundreds of herbs, he tasted the four properties and five flavors. Shennong didn't have X-ray vision, a microscope, or any knowledge of viruses."
Yun Heng continued, "So, Traditional Chinese Medicine and Traditional Chinese Medicine are inseparable. They are interdependent. Traditional Chinese Medicine without Traditional Chinese Medicine is like losing the correct method of use. Traditional Chinese Medicine without Traditional Chinese Medicine is like losing its useful tool. A skilled cook cannot cook without rice. Neither can do without the other."
"In addition, Chinese medicine has the characteristics of meridians. Medicines have four properties and five flavors, and people actually have them too. People who understand Chinese medicine know that there are differences in physical constitution. The same symptoms will be different in different people, so there will be differences in the use of medicine. This difference is determined by the foundation of Chinese medicine, not by the level of a particular Chinese medicine practitioner. Even if Chinese medicine keeps pace with the times, this point cannot be changed."
"It is precisely because of this characteristic that in actual clinical practice, the use of pure Chinese herbal preparations is often prone to problems. If the condition is mild, it is fine, and the problem is minor, but if the patient is critically ill, it is easy to cause major problems."
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