The term “Chinese medicine” really appeared around the time of the Opium War, when Western doctors from the East India Company gave Chinese medicine a name to distinguish it from Western medicine. The term “Chinese medicine” was officially adopted by the National Government in 1936 when it formulated the Regulations on Chinese Medicine. This shows that “Chinese medicine” is a term opposite to “Western medicine”, just like the term “China”, which came into existence only after the modern interaction with the Western countries. Therefore, there was no such thing as “Chinese medicine” before Western medicine was introduced to China, just as we used to say that all literati knew how to play the qin, chess, calligraphy and painting. The word “qin” refers to what we now call the guqin, because the West introduced the piano, harp, violin, etc., so we had to add the word “gu” to the word “qin” to show the difference. The Chinese name “qin” was added to the word “gu” to show the difference. Because of the introduction of chess, our “chess” had to be called Weiqi; with foreign characters, our characters were called Chinese characters; with Western painting, our traditional painting had to be called Chinese painting; with Western boxing, our traditional combat was called national art; with Western clothing, there was a Tang suit called Hanfu, because the Japanese wore our When the Japanese wore our traditional clothes, we thought we learned it from the Japanese when we wore it again, but the Japanese called the kimono the Wu suit, which was obviously passed on from China (Wu). If we have to trace the origin, the word “Chinese medicine” first appeared in the “Hanshu Yiwen Zhi”: “the prescription, the herb of the cold and warm, the amount of disease shallow and deep, false taste of medicine, because the gas sense of the appropriate, identify five bitter six pungent, to the water and fire of the Qi, in order to close the knot, and the opposite to calm. And the loss of its appropriate, heat to heat, cold to increase the cold, not seen outside, is the only loss. Therefore, the proverb: there is a disease is not treated, often get Chinese medicine”. Some scholars interpret the term “Chinese medicine” mentioned in the Hanshu Yiwenzhi as “to achieve harmony”, which is actually a misinterpretation of the meaning of the term. The original meaning of this passage in the Hanshu Yiwenzhi is: “If a skilled physician correctly applies the “Jingfang”, he can bring the sick body back to its normal state. However, if you meet with a quack, you will only aggravate your condition. However, if one does not see a doctor, the disease will often heal itself. In this case, the word “Zhong” should be pronounced in a deprecated voice, which means the same as the word “Zhong” in “winning the lottery”. In addition, the word “Zhong” can also be pronounced in a flat tone, and the word “Chinese doctor” can also be interpreted as “medium level doctor” and “often get Chinese doctors ” can be interpreted as “as if one had met a medium-level doctor”. From this, we can see that the “Chinese medicine” mentioned in the Hanshu Yiwen Zhi is not the same concept as the “Chinese medicine” we are talking about now. This “Chinese medicine” is not the other “Chinese medicine”, this girl is not that duck head. The word “to the middle and” is from the “middle of the road”: “the middle is also, the world’s great essence also; and also, the world’s road also. To achieve neutral harmony, the status of heaven is absent, and all things are nurtured”. What it says is that “neutral” is the ideal state of existence of all things in the world. To achieve this ideal state through various means is to “achieve neutral harmony”. Then heaven and earth will have their own place, and all things will grow and develop. The concept of “Chinese medicine” is more suitable to explain our current concept. It is because the “yin and yang secret” advocated by Chinese medicine is the concrete embodiment of Confucianism’s idea of “to be neutral”. However, we cannot say that the “Zhong” of “Chinese medicine” mentioned in the Hanshu Yiwen Zhi means “to be neutral”. At present, when we talk about Chinese medicine, there is the question of whether we believe in Chinese medicine or not. To put it more seriously, this is an unavoidable problem in front of every Chinese and even the people of the earth. Because people will always be sick, sickness is generally speaking to see a doctor, see a Chinese doctor or see a Western doctor, this is a very real problem. This is very much like the problem of Hamlet in some cases, especially when some patients are faced with the choice of Chinese medicine or surgery and radiotherapy. Foreigners, of course, have less trouble with this because there are not many TCM doctors abroad. It’s like the Chinese have two houses, an apartment in the city and a villa in the suburbs, and it becomes a question of where to go on weekends. Of course part of the population does not believe in TCM, and this part of the population will have less trouble, either not seeing a doctor or going to a Western doctor. There is also a part of people who are reluctant to go to Western medicine and have less worries. There may not be too many people who do not believe in Western medicine at all, and the main reason for not wanting to see it is that they do not want to do too many tests, and they are afraid of the side effects of Western medicine or do not want to do surgery, but of course the cost is a real problem for many people to consider. On the issue of “believe in Chinese medicine”, we need to make some discussion and analysis. In our society, people often ask their friends, “Do you believe in Chinese medicine?” Some people will say, “I believe in Chinese medicine!” Of course, there are also some people who will say, “I don’t believe in Chinese medicine!” We are so used to this that we rarely think about the funny side of this topic. In fact, “believe in TCM or not” is a fake topic itself! Why? Let’s change the content and we’ll see the problem. Let’s say that we live in a society where people use cell phones every day, and no one would doubt the wireless communication function of cell phones. But if the primitive tribesmen to the city, you tell him to use the gadget in his hand can talk to friends thousands of miles away, you just beat him to death he will not believe it, why, because he has not used. If you let him use it for a few days, especially with his months of “Rafik” on the phone, he will say: “I believe in the phone!” But if he takes the phone back to the cottage, the other villagers will still say, “I don’t believe in cell phones!” On the other hand, if other villagers have never seen a cell phone, just listen to the people who have used the cell phone blind white talk to believe his words, that is not normal. Of course, there are times when the cell phone signal is bad, there are also times when the battery is dead, there are fake phones, some cell phone batteries will explode and hurt people, if you catch this time to let him use it for the first time, he will say: “I do not believe in cell phones!” If he thinks he was duped, tricked, vowed never to use a cell phone again in his life, then he will say for the rest of his life: “I don’t believe in cell phones!” For cell phones, there is no question of believing or not believing, there is only the question of knowing or not knowing, and the same is true for Chinese medicine, so it is a false topic to say: “Believe or not believe in Chinese medicine”! It’s hard to believe in such empty talk, but in fact, there are still high level Chinese doctors in some inland provinces, such as the famous Chinese doctor in Shanxi, Mr. Li Ke, and Mr. Lu Chong Han in Sichuan. In terms of first aid Mr. Li Ke is commonly used in herbal tonics. At present, in the global village, emergencies are the business of Western doctors, but when Mr. Li Ke was the director of the TCM department of Lingshi County People’s Hospital, emergency medicine became the business of the TCM department, so he was called “the backbone of TCM”. Mr. Li Ke authored the “Album of Experiences of Li Ke Veteran TCM Physician in Emergency and Critical Diseases”, which contains 246 cases of his emergency and difficult cases, often with the effect of “one dose of knowledge, two doses already”, and the patients are mostly from Lingshi County, and all of them are real names. Mr. Li Ke achieved the above experience, there is an objective reason, that is, Jinzhong area, as long as the hospital issued a notice of critical illness, do not carry home will have to be cremated, and the local people are particularly afraid of cremation, so go to the Chinese medicine, Mr. Li Ke is in this “pile of the dead” has developed a martial arts. This is to try to cite Mr. Li Ke treatment of a wind heart disease heart failure case, the patient Wu, a male, 55 years old. He has been suffering from rheumatic heart disease for 12 years, and was invited to consult him because of acute heart failure combined with ventricular fibrillation and a heart rate of 212 beats/min. On examination, the patient’s eyes were dark and dull, his face was ashen, his head was sweating like oil, his consciousness was dazed, he was unable to speak, his breath was dying, and he could urinate freely. His lips, tongue and nails were blue and purple, his mouth and nose were cold, his whole body was cold, only his chest was slightly warm, his abdomen was as distended as a drum, his lower limbs were as swollen as mud, he was on oxygen, his blood pressure could not be measured, and his pulse at the inch mouth was like a wandering silk. Three of the five terminal diseases were seen. Yang was dying and was in danger. Fortunately, the lower three parts of the Taixi root pulse is weak and identifiable, which is a ray of hope, so I put in a large dose of broken heart soup, reusing 200 grams of Radix Aconiti, adding 3 grams of powdered incense, 3 grams of oil cinnamon, 30 grams each of Poria and Zexia, in order to return Qi to the kidneys, reduce water retention and swelling. Decocted urgently on a wu fire, while decocting. A quarter of an hour after taking the medicine, Yang returned to the syncope retreat, sweating and asthma fixed. In an hour and a half, he knew he was hungry and asked for food, and his heart rate was 100 times/minute, so he was out of danger. After 6 hours, the edema subsided and the heart rate was 82 beats/min, and he was able to walk with a cane. In 31 hours, he took 0.75 kg of Radix Aconiti and 0.5 kg of Cornu Cervi Pantotrichum, which are considered to be fatal in ancient and modern times, and was cured. This case has been issued a notice of critical illness, Mr. Li Ke with a large dose of broken heart soup, before and after only 31 hours to cure, equivalent to a day and night to use 600 grams of herbs, which in medical history can be said to be unique. The author has long read Mr. Li Ke’s writings, and then asked the old man for advice in person, and applied what he learned to clinical practice, and achieved more desirable results. For example, I once treated a member of my family for infertility for eight years with Zhen Wu Tang Plus, and became pregnant after taking a few dozens of doses of the soup, and the child is now more than two years old and very strong. One of my students from Shandong Province came to Beijing to study Dacheng Quan with me. After learning kung fu from me, he learned acupuncture from me, and I sent him to Mr. Li Ke to learn internal medicine, and now he is doing well in prescribing tonics. As far as acupuncture is concerned, for example, the common clinical herpes zoster, Western medicine generally uses antiviral treatment, which is not only more expensive, its efficacy is not ideal. According to the textbook, one-third of them will be left with sequelae of varying severity, and the patients are in great pain, some of them even in pain. In Japan, I saw a patient with post-herpetic pain of up to 50 years, and the year before last, a patient with post-herpetic pain of up to 22 years came to the clinic. If treated with acupuncture, young patients with good constitution can have their herpes treated locally with trigeminal needles or fire needles to release blood and cupping, which can cure some of them in a few times in the initial stage and rarely leave residual pain.