From a historical point of view, after the Opium War, with the invasion of western powers, western culture invaded. As more and more westerners come to China, they use western medicine for treatment. Western medicine is basically a patented medicine with fixed ingredients, convenient use and remarkable curative effect, which is gradually recognized by Chinese people. At the same time, influenced by the idea that foreign monks can recite scriptures, people look at western medicine with new eyes.
From a technical point of view, Chinese medicine pays attention to inheritance, which requires China's rich cultural accumulation. Influenced by the inheritance rules of traditional crafts in China, many superb skills and secret recipes have really been lost. Some charlatans muddle along on the river's lake, relying on the skill of half bottle vinegar, half bluffing and half learning fur. These people's medical skills are not high, but they have damaged the reputation of Chinese medicine to some extent.
From the cognitive point of view, people will think that Chinese medicine is slow to take effect and western medicine is fast to treat; Traditional Chinese medicine can only treat chronic diseases, but not acute diseases. In fact, this is a misunderstanding of Chinese medicine. Traditional Chinese medicine is about symptomatic treatment, which should not only cure the disease but also eradicate the root cause. Because seeing a doctor in traditional Chinese medicine is a consideration for the whole human body, it is necessary to find the root cause that affects the overall operation of the body and solve it. Western medicine pays more attention to symptoms, treating headaches, treating foot pain, and relieving symptoms with drugs instead of looking for the root cause. This is also one of the important reasons why western medicine treatment seems to be effective quickly.
In fact, Chinese medicine is largely like feeding a hungry person and injecting motivation into the body; Western medicine treatment is more like a coachman whipping a horse and stimulating the accumulated energy of the human body through hormones. Chinese medicine is the way to keep in good health, while western medicine is the way to lose.
Under the comprehensive influence of these aspects, western medicine has developed rapidly in China, while Chinese medicine has been suppressed. Traditional Chinese medicine has played an important role in treating COVID-19 epidemic. Chinese medicine has been paid more and more attention.
Both Chinese medicine and western medicine should adhere to the attitude of removing the rough and selecting the fine, removing the false and retaining the true, and adhere to the idea of sublation and critical inheritance.