Many ancient medicines are being quietly resurrected in the world today. Including ancient Indian medicine, German medicine, British medicine, and of course Chinese medicine. Qigong is no longer a patent of the Chinese, but a fashion in economically developed countries.
In terms of therapeutic effect, this ancient medicine has treated many chronic diseases that Western medicine cannot deal with. Therefore, Western medicine calls this type of medicine, especially Eastern medicine, "alternative medicine."
However, before the advent of modern Western medicine, this type of medicine prevailed for hundreds of years and somehow lost to Western medicine. Reduced to "alternative medicine".
Let’s try to analyze
1. In Europe, plague has caused several major population declines. Newton's discovery of gravity and the first novel in European literary history, The Decameron, were both products of escape from the plague. The ability of ancient medicine to control plague is far inferior to that of modern Western medicine. The emergence of vaccines and antibiotics has caused almost all bacterial diseases to be conquered by humans. Within a hundred years after the discovery of antibiotics, the word that made people panic at the beginning - - Such as "plague", "typhoid", "dysentery", etc. have been forgotten by modern people. The success in controlling infection has established the status and prestige of Western medicine in society today.
2. Another weapon of Western medicine: anatomy has further strengthened the position of Western medicine in people's hearts. Especially in the 20th century, the two largest world wars in human history made ancient medicine even more difficult to match. In peacetime, human traffic accidents, work injuries, and sports accidents are all caused by Western medicine represented by anatomy, which has overturned these "ancient medicines" to the ground.
3. Modern scientific progress enables people to feel the services brought by scientific and technological progress at all times. Steam engines, electricity, and electromagnetic waves promote the development of society in most fields of agriculture, industry, medical care, and society. People In their discourse and thought, they basically believe that science is a god they worship. Now science is the most perfect and rigorous knowledge system in human history, and modern Western medicine is fully compatible with this standard. Science is parts, structures, and systems, and Western medicine is Cells, tissues, organs.
Thirty years in Hedong, thirty years in Hexi. After the Second World War, with the improvement of living standards around the world, the improvement of nutrition and sanitation conditions, and the almost disappearance of bacterial infections in developed countries, bacterial diseases are no longer the number one enemy of mankind. Western medicine represented by "antibiotics" It is gradually losing its glory.
Through the above three aspects, we can answer a question: Why do you feel uncomfortable? After going to the hospital for a test, the doctor will tell you that it is nothing, go home and rest, etc. Your boyfriend can tell you A bunch of words. Western medicine targets bacterial diseases and traumatic diseases. For most of our chronic diseases, we rely on our traditional medicine and even nutritional medicine to cure them.
Western medicine, traditional Chinese medicine and nutritional medicine will enter a new era together. People can recognize their respective areas of adaptation. Humanity will move towards a healthier new century!