Traditional Chinese medicine
https://www.wendangku.net/doc/601545765.html, has conducted a survey about Traditional Chinese Medicine involving 20,046 respondents. It suggested that 74 percent supported it. Nevertheless, most people chose Western doctors when they really fell ill.
As a matter of fact, I suppose that this phenomenon is general. There are several reasons.
First of all,the western medicine is more efficient than Chinese traditional medicine. For example, if we get a cold, maybe it only takes several days to get recovery. However, it may take longer time to adopt traditional Chinese medicine.
For the rest the western medicine is more convenient. Take the herbal medicine for example, because they all raw material from plants or animal, so we have to stew them in the water before we eat them. In addition, it’s very difficult to carry with ourselves.
Besides the process to use TCM is very painful. For example, Gua Sha is believed to heal almost any ailment including cholera. It is abrading the skin with pieces of smooth jade, bone, animal tusks or horns or smooth stones, until red spots then bruising cover the area. It’s such a anguished procedure that ordinary mortals cannot stand. And most herbal is so bitter that little children are not willing to drink.
At last but not least, there are few traditional Chinese medicine
hospital. Most college students who want to be a doctor major in western medicine because they can make more money through all kinds of ways, such surgical operation or anaesthesia and so on. Chinese medicine is not in popular demand, and gradually it will cause a vicious circle that more students who have gradated from university will be engaged in western medicine, less people will choose traditional Chinese medicine.
Even now, we can’t deny that TCM has incomparable advantages compared with western medicine.
Above all, the Chinese traditional medicine hardly has side effect. no matter herbal medicine or cupping or other traditional treatment, they all put the natural material into use, there aren’t any additive agent. Quite on the contrary, the side effect of western medicine may cause massive damage. People often feel sleepy after eating coldrex, for driver, it will arise a traffic accident if they eat coldrex before they drive a car.
What’s more,TCM can bring radical cure. As we all know,the TCM is based on the philosophy concept that the human body is a small universe with a set of complete ans sophisticated closely-related subsystems. Those systems usually work harmoniously to maintain the normal function of the human body. And TCM theory pays more attention to assisting the balance of the human body and letting its healing system do its job.
Relatively speaking, the price for TCM theory is more low than
Western medicine.currently, if we want to see a doctor in a hospital, we have to take various chemical examination. And what’s worse, the medicine apparatus may can’t find any problem even we are so painful. So it will give rise to the waste of money.
The TCM was born in primitive society and developed over 2000 years. Actually at present, people pay more attention to regimen and the Traditional Chinese Medicine is developing stably. The latest data shows that in the first half of this year, Chinese import and export volume of TCM was $1.98 trillion, an increase of 23.94% compared with last year; of which, exports increase 22.49%;Imports increase 28.57%.
More and more foreign countries adopt our TCM theory, such as Singapore, Malaysia, Vietnam, Thailand, Japan, England, Germany, and USA. It means that our TCM has set sights on world level. And in the meantime, we also have to take notice of the safety and hygiene problem, strengthen supervision and make it serve the society better.