Surely the new manual is better than the old one.
The Barefoot Doctor's Handbook, published in 1969, was collectively edited by the Shanghai College of Traditional Chinese Medicine and the Zhejiang College of Traditional Chinese Medicine, and has been a national health guide for Chinese people for more than 30 years.
The Barefoot Doctor's Handbook is hardcover with a red plastic leather cover, published by the Shanghai Publishing Group in September 1970, 1 edition, 1 printing; the title page is colorfully printed with several quotations.
The text is accompanied by a number of illustrations of Chinese herbs, illustrated and in-depth, at that time mainly for the use of the newborn - barefoot doctors, in addition to the value of the collection, even today as a textbook for the popularization of traditional Chinese medicine, there is still a certain value.
Given the progress of the times, medicine is constantly developing, if the non-medical personnel origin want to understand the medical related knowledge, you can look at, the new should be more scientific than the old a little bit, but still can not blindly believe in the things on this, medicine is more complex, there is a disease or go to the hospital to listen to the doctor, after all, the doctor learns the things are still more reliable than this professional.
Summarized as follows:
Special period, special policy, the lack of medicine in rural areas, the medical situation is extremely poor, the construction of basic rural health care is imminent, through the training of intellectuals to become a barefoot doctor into a helpless move, but solved the problem of the availability of primary health care, and greatly enhance the level of medical care in rural areas of the country (from scratch, this is the most difficult step).