Introduction: Traditional Chinese medicine has a history of thousands of years. In the process of the development of traditional Chinese medicine, doctors of all dynasties have continuously injected vitality into traditional Chinese medicine, improved traditional Chinese medicine theory and practice, and have also given birth to countless famous traditional Chinese medicine masters and saints of medical skills. With foundation, assistance and talents, why has traditional Chinese medicine not developed and grown and achieved self-prosperity? In this article, we discuss a fatal flaw in the development and growth of traditional Chinese medicine.
Medical principles are actually not complicated
After catching a cold, it is hot, afraid of cold, sneezing, and running nose. People know that this is a cold. After eating food that is difficult to digest, it appears to be a stomachache , acid reflux, heartburn, and hiccups. You will know that this is a stomachache . Suddenly, frequent urination, urgency, and pain in urine occur. People with common medical knowledge know that this is likely to be a urinary tract infection. If you have a cold, you may choose antipyretic drugs; if you have stomach problems, you may choose drugs that inhibit gastric acid; if you have urinary tract infection, you may choose antibiotic for treatment.
What kind of symptoms combination, what disease corresponds to, and choose the adapted medicine. This is the process of medical diagnosis and treatment, which traditional Chinese medicine calls prescription therapy. Medical Saint Zhang Zhongjing said in " Treatise on Febrile Diseases " that the three symptoms of bitter mouth, dry throat, and dizziness are typical symptoms of Shaoyang disease . Seeing these three symptoms combinations, Xiao Chaihu Decoction can be used to treat it, which is a representative of prescription and syndrome therapy.
prescription therapy is the initial medical model of traditional Chinese medicine and a model that always exists in the development of traditional Chinese medicine. This model will still exist in the future because there will always be unknowns in medicine. If a tumor patient is active in tumor cells, it is difficult to effectively control and inhibit it. At this time, the patient has symptoms of bitter mouth and dry throat and dizziness. We used Xiao Chaihu Decoction to treat it, and the patient's tumor development speed was suppressed and no longer progressed. Although we do not know where the tumor regulation switch is, nor do we know the reason for the activity of tumor cells, the development speed of tumors has been inhibited by regulating the Shaoyang system. This is the charm of prescription and syndrome therapy, and it is also the reason why prescription and syndrome therapy will continue to exist, that is, the unknown field of medicine always exists.
Many doctors recommend prescription and syndrome therapy. The reason is that prescription and syndrome therapy captures the abnormalities in the patient's current body and treats this abnormality. This abnormality is precisely the cause of heart disease, emphysema, , kidney failure, and malignant tumors. Some famous Chinese medicine experts told patients that you should not tell me what disease you are and how serious it is. I will only use medicine based on the prescriptions and symptoms of typhoid fever, which will be effective. This is the reason.
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prescription therapy has its advantages and disadvantages. Take Xiao Chaihu Decoction as an example. The patient is a patient with lung cancer. The pathogenesis lies in abnormalities in the lungs themselves. The patient has no respiratory symptoms, but it is precisely the abnormal function of the Shaoyang system, and there are symptoms of bitter mouth and dry throat. At this time, Xiao Chaihu Decoction is used to treat it. We can only adjust the Shaoyang system, but it is ineffective for fatal lung cancer, which delays the patient's timely treatment.
In order to improve the accuracy of prescription and syndrome therapy, we must upgrade it and incorporate prescription and syndrome therapy into a suitable theoretical system, and conduct reasonable thinking and reasoning with various examination and test results of modern medicine, so as to find the essence of the disease, so that the patient's disease corresponds to the prescription more accurately. Taking the Treatise on Febrile Diseases as an example, these upgraded theoretical systems include the five elements and six qi therapy of typhoid fever, the three yin and three yang therapy, the six meridians of typhoid fever, the internal organ transformation of typhoid fever, the Yijing therapy of typhoid fever, the exterior and interior therapy, etc. The upgraded versions of prescription and syndrome therapy are based on prescription and syndrome therapy, so they will have different degrees of efficacy in the treatment process, but in the process of reasoning and thinking about the disease, the efficacy is different, and some upgraded versions are even worse than those of prescription and syndrome therapy itself.
In the process of the development of traditional Chinese medicine, there are many upgraded theoretical systems for prescription and syndrome therapy, each with representative figures and certain achievements. However, these achievements come from the upgraded version, or from the prescription and syndrome therapy itself, which is difficult to conclude, so debates are one after another.Some typhoid researchers realize the confusion of the upgraded version of prescription and syndrome therapy, so they simply discard it and concentrate on studying the prescription and syndrome therapy itself, believing that prescription and syndrome are the foundation of typhoid and syndrome and the foundation of traditional Chinese medicine.
prescription therapy has advantages and disadvantages. The emergence of the theoretical system of upgraded prescription therapy is an inevitable result of medical development, but the effectiveness and confusion of the current upgraded theoretical system has caused endless debate. The fatal flaw in the development and growth of traditional Chinese medicine lies in the uncertainty of the upgraded version of prescription and syndrome therapy. It is this uncertainty that has led to the emergence of famous Chinese medicine, but traditional Chinese medicine itself cannot grow and prosper.
