One is the historical reason.
After the May Fourth Movement, Chinese intellectuals advocated total westernization. Led by the social elites, the public consciously agreed with the following two points: ① China's traditional culture represents decadence and decline, and must be rejected wholesale; ② Western culture belongs to the advanced modern culture, which represents human civilization and progress, and the trend of world development.
The culture of Chinese medicine is a treasure of traditional culture, which naturally suffered a fatal impact. Several times it was nearly strangled and abolished.
Two, western medicine and western drugs are trying every possible way to seize the Chinese medical market.
After the Opium War in 1840, western medicine began to enter China. Before that, Chinese people have relied on traditional Chinese medicine for generations to cure their illnesses and save their lives. No one questioned that Chinese medicine and traditional Chinese medicine did not work.
Over the past hundred years or so, Western medicine has flourished in China and grown by leaps and bounds. As of today, the Chinese medical market is basically the world of Western medicine. Traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) has a very small market share, and the number of TCM practitioners is not as large as a fraction of the number of Western medical practitioners.
Western medicine, there are a variety of instruments to analyze the detection of the body's high and low blood pressure, blood sugar and other values marked clearly. There are no stones, tuberculosis, tumors, various instruments to see clearly (although the misdiagnosis rate of more than 30%).
The Chinese medicine to diagnose the disease through the look and smell, what is sick, all rely on the doctor said. Patients can't see what is datamined and pictured.
So I feel that Western medicine is scientific and reliable. The Chinese medicine is mysterious and unreliable.
Western medicine and Western medicine are powerful in treating symptoms. There are bacteria to kill bacteria, there are viruses to kill viruses, anyway, there are all kinds of antibiotics. The pain there, take a painkiller will not hurt. The first thing you need to do is to take a few minutes to get to the hospital. If you have a fever, take a fever-reducing medicine or take a fever-reducing injection, and the fever will go away soon. The people do not understand the medical science, and do not care about Western medicine will cause immediate and long-term damage, only care about the immediate effect. Thought that the body does not hurt, fever is gone, the disease is well. Western medicine is considered to be fast-acting. What are the toxic side effects of the drug, the instructions have long been written there, who met who is bad luck.
Western medicine is composed of chemicals, what ingredients inside, the instructions written clearly.
Chinese medicine is concerned about the four qi and five flavors, not concerned about its chemical composition, is to formulate the medicine into the nature of the flavor of the yin and yang prevail to adapt to the condition of the yin and yang to take effect.
This is why people believe that Western medicine is highly transparent and the composition of Chinese herbs is a mystery.
So the people of the country summed up a sentence: Western medicine let people die clearly, Chinese medicine let people live in confusion.
Three, the quality of Chinese herbal medicines has seriously declined.
1, unscrupulous businessmen profit-oriented, manufacturing counterfeit and shoddy Chinese herbal medicines. The second best, to fake the real.
You buy schizandra is likely to be dyed plus saccharin out of the whole wild grape. The red ginseng you buy may be the dregs of a medicine that has already been extracted. Some time ago, known for its integrity, the century-old store Tongrentang sold expired honey, this matter makes the country's confidence in Chinese medicine has been seriously hit. In fact, this Tongrentang, not the other Tongrentang. The ancestors and heirs of the real Tongrentang should not take the blame for this black pot.
2, artificial planting, regardless of geography, resulting in discounted efficacy of Chinese medicinal herbs.
The demand for Chinese herbal medicines at home and abroad is high, and wild herbs cannot meet the market demand. So it can only be planted artificially. The efficacy of artificially grown herbs is definitely worse compared to wild herbs.
Chinese medicine is about local herbs, and the origin and quality of herbs have a very strong relationship. For example, rhizoma ligustici, is good in Sichuan, so the herbs should be rhizoma ligustici. The yam should be made from Chinese yam, and the panax ginseng should be made from Wenshan panax ginseng.
Japan has set up more than 70 GAP (Good Agricultural Practice) bases in China to ensure the authenticity of Chinese herbs. The Chinese medicine company with the most GAP bases in China is Tongrentang, which has only eight bases.
Artificial cultivation, regardless of the region, is not the Taoist herbs, natural efficacy discount.
3, greenhouse cultivation affects the efficacy.
Chinese medicine picking seasonal requirements, such as February, March, Artemisia, June, pull when firewood. Greenhouse cultivation technology, so that the herbal picking time disorders, resulting in a decline in the quality of medicinal herbs.
4, part of the farmers artificial planting herbs, the use of pesticides and fertilizers. This leads to a decline in the quality of herbs along with pesticide residues.
5, herbal concoctions cut corners, resulting in reduced efficacy and even toxicity of Chinese herbs. The folk art of concocting Chinese herbs is being lost.
6, China has a large number of top-quality Chinese herbal medicines are exported to Japan and other countries every year, and the remaining Chinese herbal medicines are left to the people of the country, the efficacy of which can be imagined.
5, pseudo-Chinese medicine, fake masters under the guise of Chinese medicine, cheating, profiteering. Let the patient's disease is not cured, but also lose a huge amount of medical expenses, it is abhorrent. The people of the country to the pseudo-Chinese medicine hatred added to the head of the real Chinese medicine, let the real Chinese medicine to take the blame.
Six, unscrupulous businessmen ask unscrupulous stars to do false advertising to promote health care products. The health care products blown into a cure-all miracle medicine. Let the Chinese medicine and Chinese medicine take the blame.
Seven, Chinese medicine does not make money, in the hospital is not popular, naturally westernized. In the eyes of the people of China, Chinese medicine is synonymous with quackery.
Chinese medicine is used to see and hear the doctor, no machine without blood, only a registration fee. The Chinese medicine used for treatment is inexpensive and effective. It is not possible to generate income for hospitals, and the income of Chinese medicine practitioners themselves is also affected.
Doctors also have to support their families, less bonuses, low income, meetings are always criticized, who would like to switch to Western medicine. The first thing you need to do is to get your hands on a new doctor, and you'll be able to do it in the right way. The company's main goal is to provide the best possible service to its customers," he said.
So the Chinese medicine department inside the Chinese medicine practitioner is no longer a pure Chinese medicine. In the eyes of the Chinese people, Chinese medicine has become synonymous with quackery.
Eight, a serious lack of Chinese medicine talent.
The Chinese medicine is profound, all-encompassing, long cycle of success.
The Chinese medicine is profound and profound, originally is the advantage, but now it has become a disadvantage to prevent it from developing and expanding. In the present era of quick success and quick profit, people's hearts are restless. There are not many people who can be quiet, tireless and persevering to study, research, improve and develop Chinese medicine for a lifetime. Only those who love Chinese medicine and are determined to help the world can do so.
The yin and yang of traditional Chinese medicine, the five elements, the five movements of the six qi, the unity of heaven and man, diagnosis and treatment, look and smell and ask and cut, the four qi and five flavors, the ruler and minister and make, cold and heat, the yin and yang surface and inside, traditional Chinese medicine, diagnostics, prescription, meridian and so on, there is no one is able to easily master. All of them require a lifetime of continuous learning.
The Chinese medicine is a living, see the patient to be different from person to person, from time to time, from person to person. You can treat different diseases with the same treatment, or the same disease with different treatment. So you need to be enlightened. Learning Chinese medicine without enlightenment, even if you work hard, you will not become a great doctor.
The most important thing in Chinese medicine is medical ethics. The medical skills should be refined, and the medical ethics should be noble. Only then can it be called a great doctor. Just one of the medical skills of the road, to do are difficult.
To make the graduates from the westernized Chinese medicine higher education institutions, only one-third of the time in the school learning Chinese medicine professional knowledge, to become qualified Chinese medicine practitioners, is not a duck on the shelf? Not to mention being medically proficient.
The serious shrinkage of the TCM workforce and the severe shortage of TCM talents are the result of the irrationality of the medical management system over the past three decades since 1985.
One of the big things is that the barefoot doctors, who were praised by Chairman Mao, have been designated as practicing medicine illegally. This is the root cause of the serious shrinkage of the Chinese medicine team, the serious lack of Chinese medicine talent, Chinese medicine in an incredibly difficult situation.