David Cyranoski, Asia-Pacific correspondent for the prestigious science journal Nature Research, accused the Chinese government of "deregulating traditional Chinese medicine" in a Nov. 29 article titled "China deregulates traditional Chinese medicine despite safety risks. ".
China did this as an autonomous decision in response to a shift in the situation of Chinese medicine, and since you don't know anything about Chinese medicine, don't point your finger at it, lest you fall into a trap, hurt the peace, and leave a trail of accusations.
1, Chinese medicine, also known as Han medicine, it is the valuable wealth of the Chinese nation, for the Chinese nation's prosperity has made great contributions. The basic theory of Chinese medicine is a theoretical overview of the human body's life activities and the law of change of diseases, which mainly includes the doctrine of yin and yang, the five elements, luck, organs and images, meridians and other doctrines, as well as the cause of the disease, disease mechanism, diagnosis, diagnostic methods, treatments, treatments, prevention, health care and other content. If one is unable to fully grasp and understand the history of Chinese medicine, to comment on Chinese medicine based on just one thing is a generalization that cannot be believed by the world.
Chinese medicine has received real attention from China in recent years, and on December 6, 2016, the Information Office of the State Council published a white paper on "Chinese Medicine in China". This is the first time the Chinese government has published a white paper on the development of Chinese medicine. The white paper systematically introduces the development lineage of Chinese medicine and its characteristics, fully describes China's national policies and major measures for the development of Chinese medicine, and demonstrates the scientific value and cultural characteristics of Chinese medicine. The therapeutic concepts of traditional medicine are gradually being accepted by the world, traditional medicine is receiving more and more attention from the international community, and there is a growing demand for Chinese medicine worldwide, which provides a broad space for the development of Chinese medicine.
2, Chinese medicine and western medicine have their own characteristics, each focusing on their own country's traditional culture is an excellent representative. Chinese medicine has a theory, Huang Di Nei Jing, Zhang Zhongjing's typhoid theory, etc., there is a basis for the medical cases of famous doctors, according to the Chinese dynasties and generations of inheritance, it can make the Chinese nation flourish down, credit. If we follow the logical thinking of Western medicine, before Western medicine was introduced to China, the Chinese people should have died out. Their theory is that Western medicine is the true art of healing and Chinese medicine is not. If Chinese medicine is not, I would like to ask, before Western medicine was introduced into China, how did your family see and treat the sick? How did you procreate and breed to your generation? In fact, before the outbreak of the Black Death in the West, modern Western medicine was only a folk witch doctor in the West. Now, it only has a history of 500 years. Western medicine is only a little more advanced in terms of surgery and medical equipment, but the rest is just meh. If we compare it with Chinese medicine, it is no match at all. For example, when it comes to colds and flu, Western medicine is all the same. The Chinese medicine is based on the treatment of people, different people, different body types, different medications.
Remember "Legend of Zhen Huan" there is a bridge, Zhen Huan sick temporary summoning doctor, but can only use Wen Shichu, only Wen Shichu know Zhen Huan's constitution, know how to use the medicine, no one else can take over, this is the characteristics of Chinese medicine. If one does not know anything about Chinese medicine, do not pretend to know, so as not to make a fool of oneself. Besides, if Chinese medicine does not work, before the introduction of Western medicine into China, people who do not believe in Chinese medicine and their families, have long been dead. Being a human being is about learning to respect! Chinese and Western medicine have their own advantages and disadvantages, do not have to "take the strengths than the shortcomings". Western medicine has its advantages, but also a whole lot of disadvantages. Chinese medicine also has its shortcomings, but there are advantages that have made the Chinese people thousands of years have been growing! This is enough!
3. We are not "protecting the calf", in fact, the risk is always there. Earlier, China's State Food and Drug Administration (SFDA) urgently recalled two Chinese medicine injections because they caused adverse reactions such as chills and fever in 10 patients. But what does that tell us? It can only show that our country is still able to identify the inadequacies of Chinese medicine in time and take remedial measures. It is not scientific to review Chinese medicine with the mindset of Western medicine. Chinese and Western medicine are completely different medical systems. Chinese medicine is empirical medicine, which recognizes the evidence and treats it from a holistic viewpoint, while Western medicine is disease-specific and evidence-based medicine, which verifies the efficacy of drugs through clinical trials.
The birth of Chinese medicine from the beginning is constantly trial and error, error correction, and constantly from the accumulation of little by little experience, if not, how can there be "Huangdi Neijing", "Typhoid Miscellany", "Compendium of Materia Medica" and other medical writings appeared it? Chinese medicine is not lacking in magic, some of the West is considered to be extremely toxic things, in the view of Chinese medicine, are mutually exclusive, for example: arsenic, with etching sores to remove the rot, kill insects, rob phlegm, cut off malaria of the efficacy of the commonly used hemorrhoids, scrofula, carbuncles, canker sores, walking horse teeth noma, jock itch sores, cold, phlegm asthma, malaria, resting diarrhea. Therefore, there is no need for us to try every possible means to describe Chinese medicine as science, nor is there any need to turn a blind eye to the great treasure it may contain because it is not science.
4, "classic formula exemption" in line with the general trend of the reform of drug registration and management methods, but the real problem lies in the interests of all parties to the game. Chinese medicine is concerned about the prescription of "the ruler and ministers and make", is to use the theory of phases and after a long period of research and clinical verification out, for the Chinese medicine business, that is their "lifeblood", who mastered the "secret formula", and the "secret formula". "Secret formula", who is in the pharmaceutical industry leader.
Remember the "mansion" in the clip it, Bai Jingqi development of the "black glue", so that he was hard from nothing to millions of sitting, as well as a variety of medicines developed by the Hundred Herb Hall, are the mansion of the life of the capital. "Exemption" is not "China's regression", for the heritage and innovation of the classic Chinese medicine, undoubtedly reduces the development cost and cycle of the classic formula, encouraging enterprises to develop new drugs.
While the West is attacking Chinese medicine so much, it is just worried that Chinese medicine is crowding out their market, after all, their development is only a few hundred years, while we have thousands of years of history!
All in all, if you don't understand Chinese medicine, please shut up and give the world a clean slate!