Regardless of Chinese medicine and western medicine, noble medical ethics are essential basic requirements for practitioners. Paying attention to medical ethics and being indifferent to fame and fortune are also the necessary qualities to become an excellent Chinese medicine practitioner. When choosing Chinese medicine, many patients often like to check the title and administrative level of Chinese medicine, and always feel that only so-called "professors", "directors" and "experts" can treat diseases. Based on my experience in the medical field for nearly ten years, I want to tell you that the current medical administrative level and professional title in China often cannot reflect the real level of medical practitioners. Therefore, Chinese medicine practitioners with low professional titles and few administrative duties often have more time to study ancient medical books and understand the way of heaven and man, thus improving clinical efficacy.
Good TCM reference 2: Careful diagnosis and treatment, slow treatment.
Some people say that Chinese medicine is "slow". This "slowness" does not mean that Chinese medicine is slow to take effect, but that Chinese medicine carefully examines and carefully formulates prescriptions when diagnosing and treating diseases. It often takes about ten minutes to complete a patient. Old patients may have a shorter time, but it will never take two or three minutes to get over it. Zhang Zhongjing, the originator of Chinese medicine, once criticized some doctors at that time for "not shaking hands enough, not feeling the pulse enough" and "taking soup and medicine in contrast to needs".
Good Chinese medicine reference 3: the medicine is simple and refined, and the price is cheap.
Some patients want to recover quickly because of their urgent illness, so they ask the doctor to prescribe more expensive medicine and better medicine. Subconsciously, they think that expensive medicine is equivalent to good medicine. When I meet doctors who prescribe cheap drugs, I even feel that doctors deliberately make things difficult for themselves, unwilling to use good drugs for themselves, and even lead to conflicts between doctors and patients. This idea is ridiculous. Because there is no direct relationship between drug price and curative effect, the curative effect mainly depends on whether TCM syndrome differentiation is accurate or not. It is not that the more expensive the medicinal materials, the better the curative effect. Drug prices are regulated by the market. Cordyceps sinensis, for example, was originally a common Chinese herbal medicine for tonifying lung and kidney more than ten years ago, and its price is not as expensive as it is now. However, in recent years, due to the hype of the media and the market, its price has risen rapidly, and it has changed from a Chinese herbal medicine for tonifying lung and kidney to an incurable "magic medicine". Most people rarely taste it. Aristocrats and powerful people flocked. Some mercenary Chinese medicine practitioners fanned the flames. For the sake of economic benefits, regardless of whether patients are suitable to take it, a large number of Cordyceps sinensis are also prescribed to patients, which has caused great waste of resources.
In addition, few but fine drugs have always been a means for Chinese medicine to pursue curative effect. Miscellaneous drugs often lead to the mutual cancellation of the effects of the whole prescription and can not play a clinical role. Most of the prescriptions in Treatise on Febrile Diseases, a classic work of traditional Chinese medicine, have no more than ten kinds, and many prescriptions even have only two or three kinds, which can explain this problem very well. At present, some Chinese medicine practitioners prescribe more than 20 kinds of drugs, which are not only harmful to the condition, but also harmful to the body. Doctors are in charge of life for the world and hold the power of life and death. Is there no shame in prescribing for the benefit? Again, I want to remind you that it's better to avoid doctors who give you prescriptions and are generous.
Good Chinese medicine reference 4: simple and sincere, not bragging.
Huangdi Neijing said: "Eat well, let it serve you, enjoy its vulgarity, and compete with others, so people will not envy each other, so people will be simple." Simplicity and sincerity are not only the external manifestations of people with moral cultivation considered in the classics of traditional Chinese medicine, but also a good way of self-cultivation that Chinese medicine should pursue and abide by. It is conceivable that a person who likes luxury cars, power, crowding round and talking about ostentation and extravagance is not only incompatible with the elegant temperament that a Chinese doctor should have externally, but also difficult to maintain the pure soul of Chinese medicine internally.
Traditional Chinese medicine is not only a medicine, but also an attitude towards life and a way of self-cultivation. A good Chinese medicine brings a quiet and peaceful atmosphere. There is an old saying: "Smart glib talkers are rare." When the famous doctor Zhang Zhongjing visited the physiognomist He Qing when he was young, He Qing commented that "you will be a good doctor with fine thinking and low rhyme." It is said that Zhang Zhongjing thinks the problem is deeper, but it is not very high-profile. Later, Zhang Zhongjing became a famous doctor as he said. It can be seen that eloquent and eloquent people can easily assure patients, which does not meet the temperament requirements of traditional Chinese medicine. Zhuang said that "there is great beauty in heaven and earth without saying anything". Traditional Chinese medicine holds the way of heaven and earth, and the great beauty of heaven and earth needs no words. Similarly, there is no need to say much about the doctor's medical level, and everything is judged by the curative effect of the patient after taking the medicine. Chinese medicine practitioners with quiet and calm temperament often have relatively high medical skills.
Good Chinese medicine reference 5: Do not actively recommend western medicine and Chinese medicine for simultaneous treatment.
Traditional Chinese medicine and western medicine are two incompatible theoretical systems. At least at present, the theoretical system of integrated traditional Chinese and western medicine is far from being established. Medicine is profound, regardless of Chinese medicine or western medicine. So a doctor who is proficient in two kinds of medicine and can achieve mastery through a comprehensive study has not yet been born. Under such circumstances, it is the right way for Chinese medicine practitioners to prescribe traditional Chinese medicine and western medicine to prescribe western medicine. Everyone has their own duties and there is no need to intervene. Many Chinese medicine practitioners are limited to the level. In order to pursue quick results, patients are often advised to treat with integrated traditional Chinese and western medicine. Even if the curative effect is achieved, it is hard to say whether Chinese medicine is effective or western medicine is effective, and the medical level of doctors cannot be improved. Therefore, a doctor who is interested in making achievements in Chinese medicine, in his heart, mostly hopes that patients will not use other therapies when taking their own Chinese medicine, so as to see the effect. Moreover, since the theoretical basis of the combination of traditional Chinese and western medicine has not yet been established, it is also suggested that we should not rush to achieve success, and adopting both traditional Chinese and western medicine therapies at the same time is also risky for patients' health.
Generally speaking, the ultimate criterion for judging a good TCM is clinical efficacy. It is not easy to seek medical advice. What I have described in this article is mainly to provide you with some tips to identify Chinese medicine before seeing a doctor. I hope you can get a glimpse of the whole leopard, don't be confused by appearances, and finally find the ideal Chinese medicine.
The highest realm of traditional Chinese medicine is health preservation, and the highest realm of health preservation is nourishing the heart. So as far as health is concerned, corporal fitness, sergeant fitness and staff sergeant fitness. It's the same to see a person. It is better to observe qi than to observe heart.