In the contemporary era of rapid economic and social development, Chinese medicine, which is the treasure of the Chinese nation, is shrinking day by day, which is distressing! On the surface, it is a matter of management thinking, i.e. managing Chinese medicine with the thinking of managing Western medicine, while regulating Chinese medicine according to the standards of Western medicine. The deeper reason for this is the confusion between the two theoretical systems of Chinese and Western medicine. This is because both Chinese medicine and Western medicine are guided by their theories and development, especially Chinese medicine, which has a much longer history than Western medicine, has its own complete theoretical system. Nowadays, the use of Western medical theory to regulate Chinese medicine has seriously undermined the integrity of the theoretical system of Chinese medicine, which has fragmented the medical system of Chinese medicine and caused the shrinkage of Chinese medicine. I. Different guiding theories of Chinese medicine and Western medicine Chinese medicine is applied to clinical practice under the guidance of Chinese medical theory, which was produced in ancient China thousands of years ago. The ancient way of thinking is completely different from the contemporary scientific way of thinking. The concept of science has a broad sense, a narrow sense, and a broad sense of science, which is synonymous with truth, and both Chinese and Western medicine belong to the category of broad science. The narrow sense of science has three basic elements, one is logical reasoning, the second is experimental confirmation, and the third is the expression of mathematical patterns. Strictly speaking, Chinese medicine does not meet these three elements. The theory of TCM is centered on qi, and the meaning of “qi” in TCM is so broad that it cannot be strictly defined, and there is no logical reasoning without a strict definition. The theory of TCM is based on the “theory of yin and yang”, which can grasp both what is known and what is unknown. For example, Chinese medicine summarizes the complex Chinese medicine (at present, we do not know how much chemical composition it contains) into “cold, hot, warm, cool”, “ascending, descending, sinking, floating” properties; and the complex human body disease changes (at present, many diseases do not fully know its microscopic Physiopathological changes), summarized into “Yin, Yang, surface, inside, cold, heat, deficiency, real,” eight attributes. The farther the road, the greater the advantage of the elderly, the sooner they can reach their destination. Although children have the advantage of a torch, but lack of experience, the more exaggerated the role of the torch, the more likely to lose the general direction. Nowadays, there are many problems in Western medicine, such as the increasing microscopic examination, which leads to higher and higher costs, the abuse of antimicrobial agents leading to bacterial resistance and the serious side effects of chemotherapy drugs, etc., all of which are important factors affecting the sustainable development of modern medicine. Western medicine is mostly a single chemical composition “monomer”, almost all of which are chemically synthesized. Western medicines are often synthesized under artificial conditions, at high temperatures of several hundred degrees or even thousands of degrees, under hundreds or even thousands of atmospheric pressures, and exist in the form of molecular clusters, so they are often unstable at room temperature, such as easy to oxidize and deteriorate, and are incompatible with the human body, with great toxic side effects. Chinese herbal medicines, on the other hand, are natural plants and animals, formed under natural conditions and through millions of years of simultaneous evolution with humans. They exist in the form of plant and animal cells, which are protected by cell membranes and are stable under normal environment, so they are suitable for human body and have less toxic side effects. Chinese medicine does not belong to the scope of chemical drugs, and cannot be managed as chemical drugs. The FDA (Food and Drug Administration) of the United States classifies Chinese medicine as natural food and health products. The FDA classifies Chinese medicine as natural food and health care products, while the restrictions on Chinese medicine in China are more severe than those in the United States. The “target” of Chinese and Western drugs is different. “Target” is the point of action of the drug, the point of effectiveness. The target of western drugs is for microscopic “foci”, for specific causes of disease. For example, the cause of angina pectoris is coronary artery atherosclerosis, and the use of nitroglycerin to treat angina pectoris is to target this cause and dilate the coronary arteries. In contrast, Chinese medicine considers the cause to be “chest yang not revitalized”, and uses gua pou, allium, and panax quinquefolium to invigorate chest yang. Therefore, the target is obviously different. TCM does not target specific lesions, but the macroscopic and overall – “evidence”. It is the indirect treatment such as “help the righteousness and drive away the evil”, “draw the bottom of the axe” and “induce the fire to return to the origin”, which treats the root rather than just the symptoms. Western medicine is a single chemical component that can act directly on the target point and can be easily confirmed by animal experiments, while Chinese medicine is a very complex compound component. In most cases, Chinese medicine relies on improving the patient’s own resistance to disease and “balancing yin and yang” to cure the disease indirectly, which only changes the trend of the disease, so it is difficult to be confirmed by animal experiments. Because of the indirect treatment, one prescription can cure many diseases, such as “warming the yang and tonifying the kidney”, which can cure dozens of diseases such as edema, asthma and rheumatism. The well-known Liu Wei Di Huang Wan, which nourishes Yin and tonifies the kidneys, is used for dozens of diseases. In Chinese medicine, “different treatment for the same disease” and “different treatment for the same disease” are very common. Western medicine can be confirmed by animal experiments, but the efficacy of Chinese medicine is unlikely to be fully confirmed by animal experiments, and even disease models of experimental animals cannot be made. If you require animal experiments to confirm the full efficacy of traditional Chinese medicine, it is simply a fish out of water. Western medicine is a very simple structure, a single chemical composition, most of which can be expressed in molecular structure formula. However, Chinese medicine is not synthesized by molecular formula, it is a natural plant and animal, and its composition is very complex. Any one plant also contains dozens, or even hundreds of ingredients. For example, ginseng has been studied by modern methods for more than 100 years, and research reports and monographs can be put in a library, but there are still many components that have not been understood. In turn, even if we know the chemical structure of certain ingredients, we do not know what it does in clinical practice. For example, ephedra, according to the theory of “four gases and five tastes” of traditional Chinese medicine, it is pungent and warm, with three effects of sweating, asthma, diuretic, but its active ingredient, ephedrine, only the effect of asthma, but not the effect of sweating diuretic. Extraction of an active ingredient, but lost two effects. In other words, the active ingredient does not reflect the efficacy of Chinese medicine correctly and comprehensively. Extracting active ingredients from complex Chinese medicines is a very difficult task, and characterizing and quantifying a certain ingredient is a cutting-edge scientific research project in itself, costing between hundreds of thousands and millions of dollars, and it may not always be successful. For example, dandelion has the effect of clearing heat and detoxifying, lowering lipids and blood pressure, and is widely used in clinical practice, but it is difficult to determine its active ingredients, let alone extracting them for quantitative analysis. Similar examples abound. There are 1,892 kinds of Chinese herbal medicines in the Materia Medica, but there are only 135 kinds of Chinese medicine standards that can quantify the active ingredients in our pharmacopoeia, so if we only use these to develop new drugs, it will be a great limitation to Chinese medicine. Chinese medicine is a natural plant and animal, according to the holographic theory, it contains all the information of the whole universe and nature, and it can only be grasped and utilized by the theory of “four gases and five tastes, rising and falling and sinking” of Chinese medicine. It is very wrong to ask for a narrow scientific approach to understand all the curative effects of Chinese medicine by studying the active ingredients, or to find out the active ingredients before they can be used in clinical practice. The theory of TCM does not belong to the category of science in the narrow sense, but it may be better than modern Western medicine in the field of research on complex problems. We cannot use Western medicine to regulate the clinical application of Chinese medicine because they do not belong to the same system at all. The two theoretical systems of TCM and Western medicine are like different languages, and it is difficult to fully communicate until they are fully deciphered. The use of one system to regulate the other also tends to lead to the discarding of the essence of one of them. V. Cutting the “foot” of Chinese medicine to fit the “foot” of Western medicine We have also declared a new drug, which is composed of three types of Chinese medicine: relieving the symptoms of the lung, relieving phlegm and cough, and clearing heat and detoxification. Can qualitative and quantitative baicalin as the active ingredient, so as to develop the process and quality standards, which means that in the future to check the quality of this drug, as long as the baicalin content is up to standard on the line. If the content of cough and phlegm and lung medicine is not enough, only baicalin can not guarantee the quality of drugs, so it is self-deceiving to determine the active ingredients and quality standards. Sixth, the fatal shackle Chinese medicine since ancient times, family-style workshops can produce “pills, pans, creams, pans”, including Tong Ren Tang in the past is also a workshop production (this is the Chinese people for thousands of years of medicine channels). At present, if Chinese medicine is managed as a natural food, the workshop production can also meet the hygiene requirements. However, now the GMP (Super Clean Room) standard is being forcibly promoted and the grassroots units are required to meet the GMP standard, which costs hundreds of thousands of dollars at the least and millions at the most. Seven, the old Chinese medicine doctor’s sigh Article 21 of the Constitution provides that “the state develops medical and health care, the development of modern medicine and our traditional medicine”, since the founding of the country, successive generations of national leaders, have instructions to protect and promote Chinese medicine, the strength can not be said to be strong! However, from the perspective of Western medicine, the misconception of mixing the theoretical systems of Chinese medicine and Western medicine has led to the introduction of industry regulations that harm the medical system of ocarina, stifling the development of Chinese medicine, which has had disastrous consequences. Chinese medicine is currently the only national treasure of traditional Chinese culture that is widely associated with the lives of the people. If the current regulations regulating TCM with Western standards are not changed, TCM will be the first to die out from the vast rural and urban grassroots. In a few decades, TCM, like Beijing opera at present, will be available only to a few elderly people in urban areas. Chinese medicine will probably become the terracotta warriors of Qin Shi Huang in the near future, and will only be exhibited in museums. Promoting TCM is not only a matter of health care, but also a matter of preserving traditional Chinese culture. Traditional Chinese culture is the spiritual home and soul of the Chinese people. If TCM dies out, then traditional Chinese culture will also be distant from the daily life of Chinese people.