On October 16, 2011, the Gansu Provincial Health Department's website published its signed article, Liu Weizhong said in the first paragraph of the article, the reform of public hospitals to promote the construction of three mechanisms, including "the combination of traditional Chinese and Western medicine in 10 ways (therapeutic dietary eating pig's trotters, raw radish, raw water chestnuts, practicing the method of running real qi, traditional Chinese medicine, acupuncture, physiotherapy, oxygen therapy, exercise, singing, Chinese medicine nursing) clinical pathway for the treatment of pneumoconiosis." Liu Weizhong, director of the Gansu Provincial Health Department, appeared in the public eye with more or less magical colors. He because of the government website and microblogging to promote "therapeutic eating pig's feet" and other methods and attracted attention, so that some people on the Internet called him "pig's feet director". Liu Weizhong said, some people are scolding me, these people do not understand, but the people do not see it that way.
October 18, 2011, Foshan, Guangdong Province, two-year-old girl Xiaoyueyue was crushed by two cars, in Xiaoyueyue in a coma, someone on the microblogging asked Liu Weizhong, can we try Chinese medicine. Liu Weizhong said, "Through the stomach tube to instill some pig's trotters boiled soup and Chinese medicine, and then instill some astragalus water, it will be effective. We've saved a lot of people with this method."
The Department of Health website, microblogs, public reports ...... Liu Weizhong's voice, many times mentioned pig's trotters, pig's trotters boiled with spiny five-gallon and other foods on AIDS, tumors and other effects, pig's trotters soup and astragalus water are also regarded as his life-saving renewal of the recipe. But in the view of some Chinese doctors and Western doctors, this cure does not have any scientific basis, many people called it "ridiculous", some doctors also questioned Liu Weizhong's professional background and scientific literacy.
In late October 2011, Liu Weizhong said, these methods do have efficacy, in the economically underdeveloped, health care resources are not rich in Gansu Province, should vigorously promote this kind of prescription, in order to expand the coverage of basic medical care, "This is the direction of the development of health care reform. Zhu Qishang, director of the Occupational Disease Section of West China Hospital IV at Sichuan University, said there is no scientific basis for treating pneumoconiosis with pig's feet.
"Our hospital is the only tertiary specialized hospital engaged in clinical, teaching and scientific research on pneumoconiosis among the hospitals under the Ministry of Health." Zhu Qishang said, dust into the lungs is very difficult to discharge, at present domestic and foreign Chinese medicine, Western medicine have no thorough treatment of pneumoconiosis, the more common practice is to lung lavage, can to a certain extent alleviate the condition.
Some pneumoconiosis patients have heard that animal blood can clean the blood to discharge toxins. In this regard, Zhu Qishang said, animal blood does not have the role of the discharge of dust in the lungs, because animal blood is high in iron, eaten after the defecation of darker color, will let the consumer mistakenly think that "dirty things out", in fact, is not effective.
Singing, herbal foot soak, true qi running and other therapies can treat pneumoconiosis? Zhu Qishang said, do not understand the true qi running method, traditional Chinese medicine foot soak on the muscle immunity has a certain, indirect role, singing to improve lung capacity has a certain role, but for the alveoli (pneumoconiosis course of emphysema a form) patients, singing with qi force instead of relieving the condition, there may be the possibility of inducing pneumothorax episodes. "Pig's trotters have some nutritional value, and singing may put the patient in a good mood, but these approaches have no direct effect on the treatment of pneumoconiosis."
"All those articles were written by me personally, and none of them were written by a secretary on my behalf." Liu Weizhong said.
From Oct. 24, 2011, Liu Weizhong, director of the department, repeatedly said he had studied Western medicine at Lanzhou Medical College between 1978 and 1982, during which time he studied 300 hours of Chinese medicine, and thereafter used the summer and winter vacations to stay at the school for study and internships as a way of practicing the theory of Chinese medicine.
Liu Weizhong has repeatedly overcome many difficult diseases with Chinese medicine. And as an example, he cured pancreatic cancer, stomach cancer, liver cancer and so on. Pei Zhengxue, a famous Chinese medicine practitioner in his 70s whom he recommended, said that he did cure patients with stomach cancer and liver cancer through Chinese medicine methods, but Pei also said that the success of these cases could not be replicated, "For example, a prescription that is successful in one person may not be in another."
Pei Zhengxue said Liu Weizhong attaches great importance to traditional Chinese medicine, in order to support the famous Chinese medicine Pei Zhengxue studio, allocating 500,000 yuan for the equipment and master and apprentice inheritance.
The prescription varies from person to person, there is no certain number of cases, only an individual case can indicate its universal efficacy?
Liu Weizhong said, "This is certainly efficacious," because "Chinese medicine and Western medicine have different evaluation standards, and can not be used to measure the success of the Western set of Chinese medicine. Chinese medicine is about evidence. Using Western medicine to measure TCM is like using English to read the Tao Te Ching."
According to this statement, whether each Chinese medicine prescription must be symptomatic, different from individual to individual, then why publicly promote a particular prescription? Liu Weizhong said, "different for each individual" said the difficult and complicated diseases such as cancer, but he recommended a series of remedies effect is conclusive, more for ordinary diseases, can be applied to a wide range of people.