A Chinese medicine practitioner in Hong Kong was treating liver ascites. He knew that according to the principles of Chinese medicine, the diarrhea method should be used, but the Chinese medicine books did not allow the use of diarrhea on critically ill patients because diarrhea would hurt the fluids and the patients could not stand it. This Chinese medicine practitioner boldly used diarrhea, diarrhea and diarrhea, will be a patient cured. He said, “I am not afraid of hurting the fluids, I put the patient in a bottle, infusion, blood rehydration, and solved the problem of hurting the fluids which could not be solved by the ancient Chinese medicine practitioners. Chinese medicine is capable of absorbing all kinds of technology, to fight poison with poison, to cure one kind of disease with another kind of disease, needle, scorching, gua sha, cupping, massage, massage …… is not exactly all the means that can be used on the use of it? Frankincense, myrrh is a spice from foreign countries, is not also made in the name of Chinese medicine commonly used drugs? Chinese medicine is not tired of medical means, my mother often treats Western medicine as a poison, to attack another difficult to solve the poison. When some foci form chronic diseases, resulting in imbalance of the five elements, parched, non-pharmacological solution, the intervention of Western medicine, just as a great poison, to change the stagnant state of the five elements, to give the Chinese medicine a chance to re-create the balance, and this is why it is not possible? I know a Chinese medicine practitioner who specializes in treating children, and he was jealous when he saw that Western medicine clinics were making a lot of money. So, he opened a Western medicine clinic. He learns Western medicine very quickly, and what makes me feel happy is that the same Western medicine he uses is more effective than Western medicine, and the number of patients who come to him is particularly high. Earlier I also for his transition into Western medicine and regret, and then see his treatment of three-dimensional fight, can not help but marvel. Western medicine profit big money, as long as he is better than Western medicine, patients will be full of doors. And with Chinese medicine, even if the patients, he is difficult to get rich. Children suffer from acute illnesses, as a pediatrician, of course, or a combination of Chinese and Western medicine means convenient, fast. Contrary to the Western medicine to attack Chinese medicine, Chinese medicine never exclude other medical means, Chinese medicine does not have a combat state, just accommodate, contain. The speculative and predictive nature of Chinese medicine gives people a very unscientific feeling. The experience and feeling of the old Chinese doctors sometimes not only confuse the scientists, but also make the old Chinese doctors themselves unable to make scientific explanations. But are the feelings of Chinese medicine practitioners foolish? When we are familiar with and understand the operation law of a thing, we tend to be able to predict the development of things, do things to play some advance, is not it normal? According to a person’s character, we can often infer in what environment he will say what kind of words, do what kind of things, can depict the general trajectory of his destiny. According to a person’s physique and his lifestyle we can predict what kind of disease he will have. If we do not hold on to scientism, we can not only have a world occupied by science, but also a bigger world. In fact, the ancient Chinese grasp of things was not linear, but imaginative. (Like a driver who is particularly familiar with the performance of an automobile, he can’t tell you the production process or the data of that automobile, but he can tell what the performance of that automobile will be like under what circumstances.) For example, the description of a person’s plight is: “The old house is caught in a continuous rain, and the leaky boat is caught in a head wind.” And so, without the need for specific statements and numerical illustrations, everything is conceivable. As soon as the Chinese medicine practitioner touches the pulse, an image with medical significance comes alive in his mind. This is something that is difficult for people who are not TCM practitioners to realize. If this doctor has enough experience to grasp this imagery, he can know the movement of the disease. The problem is that the human brain may not be used to this switching between eastern and western thinking. I think the battle between Chinese and Western medicine is not so much a clash of Eastern and Western cultures as a challenge to the evolution of the human brain. I think that from ape to man, the human brain has undergone several evolutions like this one. In math it is the abstraction of numbers, in language it is the definition of emotions and concepts …… Nowadays, it is necessary to see a person as both a biological person and a yin and yang person, and a lot of people say that this can not be done, saying that if a person is viewed as a biological person, he or she cannot be a yin and yang person. Are Chinese medicine and Western medicine really as incompatible as fire and water? Imaginative thinking and logical thinking really can not be unified? Does this question touch the limits of the brain? My daughter also recognizes that the situation she faces is serious. As a modern doctor, Western clinical medicine must be taken up. I say, you cannot say that you are a Chinese medicine practitioner and cannot give emergency treatment when a patient needs you to resuscitate him. Nor can you say that you are unable to give life-saving treatment to a patient just because you have left the hospital and its equipment. Still less can you refuse to treat a patient with integrated Chinese and Western medicines on the pretext that these are two kinds of thinking. I say that the path of failure of the combination of Chinese and Western medicine for more than a hundred years does not mean that this path is not feasible. Whether Chinese culture can kill a way out, I put my hope on Chinese medicine here. Throughout history, the development of human society has always been light on its feet. Oriental culture, no matter how good, if there is no practical use in contemporary times, without a technical support is impossible to exist. Therefore, I think those who advocate Confucianism and those who advocate the restoration of traditional culture are all wasting their efforts. Not to mention that it is a waste of effort to advocate traditional culture, but it is also a waste of effort to promote Western democracy and freedom by administrative means, isn’t it? Today’s Chinese traditional culture has been cleaned up to the extent that it has been almost eliminated because of its poor practicality, and only Chinese medicine is still in the land of the undead because of its practical efficacy. History is a realist, so, empty talk about the Oriental civilization does not work, not as good as down-to-earth Chinese medicine. Chinese medicine is not dead, Chinese culture can not breathe. Chinese medicine is the last bastion of Chinese culture. The existence and development of Chinese medicine in today’s world has great rationality, can be said to have a good opportunity. The reason why TCM has not become extinct in China is also that China has never gotten out of poverty and we cannot afford Western medicine. I have always wondered about MAO Zedong, who was also regarded as a May 4th youth, and there were few May 4th youths who did not want to bring down Chinese medicine. From his various biographies, I have not found any historical information on his contact with and understanding of Chinese medicine, so where did he get his support for Chinese medicine? If he was against Chinese medicine, would Chinese medicine have survived to this day? The action of destroying the old and establishing the new has really cleaned up China into a piece of clean earth. But the old thing, Chinese medicine, was left behind. Mao Zedong set up a wide-coverage, well-organized medical system in the countryside, which itself was a combination of Chinese and Western medicine. Because it was financially unthinkable to build a purely Western medical system, there was no such thing as waiting for the money to come in. At that time, every village had an infirmary, and there were one or two “barefoot doctors” who traveled the streets and fields to investigate people’s health conditions. Watching the “barefoot doctors” appear frequently in people’s view was a great comfort to the human psyche. The “barefoot doctors” have stethoscopes and syringes in their clinics. But they collect herbs and use acupuncture. Almost every weed is a herb, and it is not difficult for the “barefoot doctors” in each place to collect dozens or even hundreds of herbs in the local area, and with a small amount of cultivation, the herbs in the clinic can cope with common diseases. Chinese herbs and disinfectant water in the infirmary realize the combination of Chinese and Western medicine in the taste of medicine. The combination of Chinese and Western medicine was economical, practical, convenient and effective, for which Chairman Mao could not fail to utilize and advocate. Today, some people praise the tolerance of Western civilization and say that it is Western medicine that can accommodate Chinese acupuncture. I said to my daughter, acupuncture is Chairman Mao hit out of China, acupuncture anesthesia, acupuncture for deafness is the 1960s Mao Zedong entertained foreign visitors to see the trick. The patient lying on the operating table doctor to open his intestines, without anesthetic, only a few needles in the body, by the doctor gently turn. The patient smiled and greeted the foreigners, who all looked dumbfounded. Today, western hospitals are daunting places for the general public, especially farmers. The high cost of medical care is far beyond the reach of the Chinese people. Even in the most developed countries in the West, the cost of medical care is a heavy burden that the country can hardly afford. This is the main reason why TCM is unlikely to be beaten to death with the stick of scientism in China. It is also the reason why the West has begun to pay attention to TCM. The people are very practical. Their choice of means of healing is, of course, a meritocracy. The good thing is that there are two choices of medical treatment in China, and this choice of the people determines how and where TCM exists. Generally speaking, people are willing to seek Western medicine. Anyone who wants to see what kind of disease they have, ultrasound, CT can clearly tell you where the disease is, so that you can see it, and now talk about the right to know. The West can give patients an explanation on this point. First to the Western hospital to confirm a diagnosis, and then look for Chinese medicine has become a part of the people’s mode of care. I am also the same way to see a doctor, such as stomach pain, first go to the Western hospital to take an ultrasound, if it is appendicitis to perforate, you are looking for Chinese medicine can not be, then you have to operate. In the Western medicine did not find organic lesions, Western medicine does not have a good solution. At this point, you can go to a Chinese medicine practitioner again. Nowadays, Chinese medicine practitioners are also dependent on Western medicine. If you have acute abdominal pain, he will first consider whether you have organic lesions and ask you to take radiographs and laboratory tests. This is right, but just as you are used to recognizing people by their faces, the human form and other aspects of the feeling of delayed purity, too much reliance on Western medicine will be easy to Western medicine thinking side. The global effect of Chinese medicine in treating illnesses is not as good as Western medicine at the moment. But the reason why I still support Chinese medicine is because I see Western medicine cured a lot of diseases, but also created a lot of diseases, and one advantage and one disadvantage has become a major feature of modern science. Although we can’t say that the benefits outweigh the disadvantages and the disadvantages outweigh the benefits, the disadvantages are really hard for people to accept even under the great temptation of the benefits. This is like surgical treatment. If it can be cured without surgery, no one wants to enjoy high-tech. Most importantly, the superstitious science of Western medicine and Western-style concepts of health care impose a huge burden on modern medical care. Can be treated with simple methods of non-complicated methods of treatment, can not cure itself, non-treatment and healing, can survive with the disease, non-dependence on medical treatment and survival, should die a natural death, non-great treatment of a gas and then die. What could have been done with a good attitude towards life and less disease or no disease, is not supported by a strong medical system that supports an unnatural way of life.