Many people believe that the Chinese nation has flourished thanks to the shelter of Chinese medicine, and are quick to say that “without Chinese medicine, the Chinese nation would not have come this far”, but this is a misconception. The development of surgery and the use of antimicrobial drugs have greatly reduced human mortality and extended the average life expectancy – after the invention of antibiotics in the 20th century, the average life expectancy of people in developed countries reached about 70 years. Human reproduction is not an achievement of any medical science, but a result of biological instinct and evolution. Tens of thousands of years ago, humans arrived in the land of China and began to reproduce for generations. In the approximately 200,000 years that humans have been migrating globally from Africa, none of the peoples have yet produced medicine. Even the oldest ancient Mesopotamian medicine was only 5,000 years old. The Chinese people did not have the germ of medicine until about 2000 years ago, so it is clear that the Chinese people, like other peoples, did not rely on medicine to reproduce. Disease accounts for a large proportion of the causes of death in China, and Chinese medicine has not contributed to the effort to combat it. Before the emergence and development of modern medicine, various infectious diseases were rampant and threatened the health of the Chinese nation. According to historical records, plague broke out and ravaged China in the late Eastern Han Dynasty. The frequency of the outbreak was rare in recorded history, and the most dangerous state lasted for more than 10 years. In the Five Elements of the Zhi Zhi (Note on the Five Elements of the Five Elements of the Zhi), it is said that “the people were sick and died, and there were extinct households, and everyone was afraid, and the court was anxious and thought it was the greatest worry.” Zhang Zhongjing wrote in the preface of “Typhoid Miscellaneous Diseases”, “Yu clan Su Duo, to more than two hundred, since the Jian’an era, not yet ten twist (years), two-thirds of its deaths, typhoid ten in its seven.” Even the family of the Saint of Medicine was in such a miserable state, and the resulting civil unrest and social unrest was one of the reasons for the fall of the Han Dynasty; thereafter, until the Republican period, infectious diseases repeatedly broke out in China, and for about 2000 years, Chinese medicine was helpless against the plague. According to historical records and scholars’ testimonies, the average life expectancy of Chinese people due to premature death from disease was low for a long time before they died of natural aging. The average life expectancy of Chinese people in all generations was: below 18 years during the Xia and Shang dynasties, about 20 years during the Zhou and Qin dynasties, 22 years during the Han dynasty, 27 years during the Tang dynasty, 30 years during the Song dynasty, 33 years during the Qing dynasty, and 35 years during the Republic of China; according to the survey data of Jinling University from 1929-1931, the mortality rate of some rural populations was 28‰, the infant mortality rate was 156‰, and the average life expectancy was 34 The average life expectancy was 34 -35 years; in 1988, the national retrospective sample survey on birth control showed that from 1944-1949, the infant mortality rate in China was 201‰ and the average life expectancy was about 39 years. It is generally believed that in the first 50 years of the 20th century, the mortality rate of the Chinese population was about 20-25‰ and the infant mortality rate was as high as about 200‰, with an average life expectancy of less than 40 years, making China one of the countries with the lowest life expectancy in the world at that time; and the high mortality rate of the Chinese population in this period was not due to war and famine, but rather to statistical data showing that disease was the real The statistics show that disease was the real culprit. According to the vital statistics of the “Kwantung region” consulted by Zhao Jinhui of Harbin Medical University, the number of deaths due to diseases (mainly infectious diseases) in the region accounted for more than 90% of the total number of deaths in 1918 and more than 80% in 1938, and the average infant mortality rate was more than 150 per thousand. The statistics from other regions also prove that diseases are the main cause of death. The reason why these problems could not be solved was that Chinese medicine was largely ignorant of the causes, treatment, and prevention of infectious diseases. Before the Qin Dynasty, Chinese doctors believed that infectious diseases were caused by ghosts and gods and responded with Nuo (rituals to exorcise ghosts); in the Han Dynasty, Chinese doctors represented by Zhang Zhongjing believed that the plague was caused by miasma produced by improper climate and proposed the “six qi to cause disease”, i.e., Yin, Yang, wind, rain, darkness, and light, attributing the cause of disease to changes in climate; after the Song Dynasty, the theory of fetal toxicity was developed. After the Song Dynasty, the theory of fetus poisoning was introduced, and the cause of infectious diseases was considered to be fetus poisoning. The ancients did not know that microorganisms were the cause of infectious diseases, so they could only speculate and imagine about infectious diseases. Until today, Chinese medicine has not recognized microorganisms and does not know the pathogen, the source of infection, or the route of transmission. An example of this is the prevention and treatment of smallpox by Chinese medicine. 18 century, the British physician Chinna invented the cowpox method to prevent smallpox achieved significant results, and in 1805, the cowpox method was introduced into mainland China from Macau and recognized; while the Chinese medical profession preached smallpox “from the fetus poison”, explained by yin and yang, etc., saying that the cowpox method is to draw out the fetus poison. Some TCM practitioners slandered the cowpox method to scare people, and even deliberately spread the lie that “you will get smallpox if you plant cowpox” to hinder the promotion of the cowpox method, resulting in a large number of people giving up planting cowpox and dying of smallpox, which persisted for 150 years afterwards. It took only 10 years to eliminate smallpox cases in China. However, due to human pox inoculation by TCM doctors in 1963-1964, smallpox broke out again in Shanxi and Inner Mongolia and was not finally eradicated until 1966. Neonatal and maternal mortality rates were not reduced by TCM, which for thousands of years believed that diseases caused by childbirth were due to “wind”, so that today there are still bad habits such as keeping doors and windows closed during the menstrual cycle. Since 1950, when China began to promote the new method of delivery with sterilization as the main principle, the danger of childbirth was finally lifted – the incidence of puerperal fever dropped sharply, and maternal mortality dropped; the death of newborns due to infection decreased, and the mortality rate dropped from 200‰ to 80.8‰ in 1958, 47‰ in the 1970s, and 34‰ in the 1980s. ‰, 34 ‰ in the 1980s, and 19 ‰ in 2005. The rapid improvement in the quality of life of Chinese people is entirely the result of the well-being of science, and the government has taken resolute scientific measures in the face of the dire situation, and with the spread of modern medicine the mortality rate of Chinese people has declined year after year. The average life expectancy of the population has increased significantly, reaching 57 years in 1957, 63.6 years in 1973, 67.90 years in 1981, and 73 years in 2005. In the face of the facts, Chinese medicine has retreated to the field of chronic and difficult diseases, and has never dared to cross the threshold for acute infectious diseases. Numerous facts have shown that TCM is not a necessary factor for the reproduction of the Chinese nation to this day, nor has it improved the average life expectancy and health of the Chinese people. It was only after modern medicine replaced TCM that the quality of life of the Chinese people improved dramatically.