Why don't I believe in Chinese medicine?

On May 1 1, I saw several junior high school students switch from "Easy Money Management" to a WeChat in the circle of friends. Click in and see, it turns out that the wife of a junior high school classmate has leukemia and is collecting money on "Easy Raising".

"My name is Huang XX, and I live in XX Village, XX Township, XX County, XX Province ..." I'm sure he is my senior one classmate. He didn't go to high school, and we haven't contacted him since junior high school. From his brief description, I learned that his wife was diagnosed with leukemia on February 22, 20 14, when she was six months pregnant. Chemotherapy is very dangerous for this child. At the doctor's suggestion, they dealt with the child.

Seeing this, my heart thumped and I immediately felt something was wrong. I quickly left a message on my friend's WeChat to the effect that I should stop taking Chinese medicine and go to the hospital for formal treatment. Later, I realized that Mr. Huang didn't add my WeChat, and I might not see this news, so I quickly asked my friend for his WeChat and added my friends.

I asked him, is your wife still taking Chinese medicine?

He said that he had stopped eating.

I thought about it and decided to ask this somewhat presumptuous question:

I want to know, why do you trust an old Chinese doctor?

It was a long time before he replied to me "It's a long story".

I asked his wife how she was doing.

He didn't speak again.

I didn't know how to comfort him, and then donated some money to Yi Qian.

Five days later, I saw him send a message about his wife's death in a circle of friends.

Besides shock, there is more anger.

I am angry because of this old Chinese doctor. I think this old Chinese doctor killed my classmate's wife to a great extent.

High-energy warning: Chinese medicine powder can be used without looking down.

If drinking Chinese medicine can cure leukemia, I would rather believe that there are immortals in this world.

In my eyes, Chinese medicine can't be called medicine, and Chinese medicine can't be considered medicine.

What is Chinese medicine?

It is experience, accident, blind cat meeting dead mouse, no standard, no quantification, unknown so, blindness, mistake, brain opening, imagination and witchcraft. ...

In a word, TCM is pseudoscience, TCM is pseudoscience, and TCM is pseudoscience.

It's not enough to say it three hundred times, because it's a matter of life.

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Isn't this interesting? Do you know where these came from? The famous Compendium of Materia Medica.

No wonder it is said on the Internet that Li Shizhen is not only a master of Chinese medicine, but also a master of black humor.

Which is "toxic", pig manure or pork? Compendium of Materia Medica says that pork is "bitter, slightly cold and slightly toxic" and pig manure is "cold and nontoxic". Pig manure is not only nontoxic, but also can cure many diseases.

In Li Shizhen's prescription, all filthy things (such as human feces, menstrual blood, and almost all animal anal excretions of pigs, cows, dogs and chickens) are good medicines. (Search "Compendium of Materia Medica+Jokes" yourself, and a year's jokes will be enough for you to find. )

Traditional Chinese medicine is actually similar to witchcraft superstition, and it is the product of underdeveloped science.

Supporters of Chinese medicine usually ask these questions to refute you.

You can visit Zhihu if you are interested. All these questions have been asked, and there are professional explanations on them.

In addition, I want to say that there are many temples and churches all over the world, and there are also many fortune tellers in China. Does that prove the existence of ghosts and gods?

Regarding the pseudo-scientific nature of Chinese medicine, many people of insight have written many articles to expose (seek for themselves), which have verified the ineffectiveness of Chinese medicine from theory to practice, from chemical analysis to clinical effect.

In fact, if you think about it with your toes, you will know that Chinese medicine is unreliable, because it is simply wrong. Its theory is based on subjective and mysterious things such as "Yin-Yang and Five Elements", "Cold-Heat Deficiency" and "Zangxiang of Meridian", which divides the simplified parts of human constitution into Yin-Yang, heat and cold, and on this basis, divides the medicinal properties into heat and cold, which is really simple and ridiculous.

For example, scraping, according to Chinese medicine, helps the body to dissipate heat and scrape off hot air. The large red and purple area scraped on the skin is hot air.

In fact, this is hemolysis caused by the damage of capillaries and red blood cells during scraping. After shaving, you will feel a little painless, because the body will produce morphine-like analgesic substances for self-defense when it is injured by external forces (the whole process is the same as beating the body with a stick).

This is a scientific explanation.

Traditional Chinese medicine knows nothing about medical pathology and pharmacology. Traditional Chinese medicine doesn't know what bacteria are and what viruses are, let alone their pathogenic principles, so it's impossible to talk about the right medicine.

For some reasons (such as national dignity), the enlightenment of traditional hospitals has not been popularized in China. Many people are superstitious about Chinese medicine, have a sense of national self-esteem and blindly worship the past.

Even sometimes, Chinese medicine has become a political issue, not just a scientific issue.

It is for this reason that there are so many swindlers in Chinese medicine that there is no bottom line (as can be seen from my classmate's experience).

The greatest harm of traditional Chinese medicine lies not only in its irresponsibility to life (excusable in ancient times without modern medicine), but also in its "anti-scientific" thinking characteristics.

"Traditional Chinese medicine thinking" is a witch thinking that lacks scientific logic and scientific argumentation: it creates concepts by itself, explains concepts by itself, has no scientific discussion and scientific basis, respects the ancient and suppresses the present, and has great authority.

The so-called "cure rate" of traditional Chinese medicine is extremely low. Traditional Chinese medicine prescriptions often only play the role of placebo, and most patients rely on their own immunity to heal themselves. If it's just a minor illness and pain, you can still get away with taking Chinese medicine; If you are seriously ill and still see a Chinese doctor, it will delay the event.

Only through the routine examination means of modern medicine, such as blood test, urine test, stool examination, CT, B-ultrasound and MRI, can you determine what disease you have; Traditional Chinese medicine will always be "spleen deficiency, kidney deficiency, stomach cold and lung heat", and it is impossible to determine what disease it is, so it will delay major events.

So there is a saying that Chinese medicine can only treat two kinds of people, one is not sick and the other is hopeless.

The first kind, often said in medicine, is a self-limiting disease (which can be cured without medical treatment); The second is that a dead horse is a living horse doctor (taking a chance).

My classmate's wife's illness may have been cured by bone marrow transplantation in western medicine, but unfortunately, because of economic pressure, she trusted the old Chinese medicine doctor by mistake, resulting in both money and people.

I have to say that old Chinese medicine practitioners have unshirkable responsibilities, even crimes.

How bad it is to treat cancer with Chinese medicine! Even the dying will be drained of their money. Are you comfortable spending this money, old Chinese doctor?

I caught a cold two days ago and went to the drugstore to get some medicine. For a moment, I didn't see what medicine it was. When I returned to the company, I found that they were all Chinese patent medicines. I quickly went back and changed to western medicine. At that time, the doctor was weighing Chinese herbal medicines for several aunts. Seeing that I didn't believe in Chinese medicine and insisted on changing to western medicine, they were expressionless and embarrassed.

I know, I will never go to this drugstore again. A doctor who treats people with Chinese medicine must not be a good doctor.

As the famous anti-TCM expert Zhihu said, only when we all know the truth of TCM and vote with our feet can we eliminate TCM through the market elimination mechanism and avoid its harm.

Maybe I can't change a person, but I can at least be responsible for myself and my family, keep them away from Chinese medicine and avoid its harm.

So I have been afraid to give up studying and thinking, especially in this land that lacks common sense.