Chapter 347 - Traditional Chinese Medicine & Western Medicine (2/2)

There was an uproar. Many people realized for the first time that the pharmaceutical industry had such huge profits.

Another reporter stood up and asked, “Doctor Qin, now many people on the Internet are clamoring for that traditional Chinese medicine is not scientific and that it should abolish traditional Chinese medicine treatment and be replaced with western medicine. Especially after this incident, many well-known experts and scholars jump out and call for canceling traditional Chinese medicine. As a Chinese medicine practitioner, what do you think of this?”

“As a matter of fact, I can tell you two things about whether traditional Chinese medicine is important or not and whether it should be abolished. You don’t have to know what I think about this. You all know what you’re supposed to think!”

“First, is traditional Chinese medicine scientific or not?”

“Science is a good thing, but modern society is far from scientific. A lot of things are unable to be explained by science, such as the famous Bermuda triangle area, the hanging coffin in Huaxia, the pyramid of ancient Egypt. But no one says they are not scientific, except traditional Chinese medicine!”

“Why do people say that traditional Chinese medicine is not scientific? It’s because the existence of traditional Chinese medicine affects the interests of many people.”

“As a Chinese medicine practitioner, I’m not used to explaining traditional Chinese medicine from a scientific perspective. To test whether traditional Chinese medicine is scientific, you can look back at the history of human development and then you will know immediately.”

“Huaxia has a culture of 5,000 years. Since ancient times, our people have taken traditional Chinese medicine. Western medicine in Huaxia has only 100 years of history.”

“During the Song dynasty, Huaxia accounted for more than 40% of the world’s population, almost half of the world’s population. Just 100 years ago, our country’s population exceeded 500 million, accounting for one third of the world’s population, making it the most populous country in the world.”

“How can our country have such a large population? We are not as physically fit as the strong, white Europeans and Americans; We are not as fertile as the African Negro; We are able to have such a large population base because our medical level is advanced.”

“In the history of human development, the Black Death in Europe killed nearly 100 million people, but our country was fine; The Spanish flu killed 75 million people, but our country was still fine; The Justinian plague killed 25 million people in the west, but Huaxia was still fine.”

“Not one of the world’s top ten infectious diseases has ever occurred in our country. What does this depend on? Is it luck? Of course not, we rely on our magic traditional Chinese medicine.”

“The medical skill has guarded our country for thousands of years, but it is now being questioned whether it is scientific. I think it’s a joke.”

“Many people say that the meridians and acupoints in our traditional Chinese medicine are invisible, so this medical skill is unscientific. But who stipulates that what cannot be explained by modern western medicine and what cannot be discovered by science is unscientific?”

“Unable to explain the magic of traditional Chinese medicine is totally because the current science is not developed enough, or because the level of traditional Chinese medicine makes the current technology unattainable!”

At this point, the audience burst into thunderous applause and cheers.

“Well said! Doctor Qin speaks very well…”

“Traditional Chinese medicine is great! Doctor Qin is great…”

“Long live Doctor Qin! We support you! We support traditional Chinese medicine! We’re going to carry our own skill…”

As the applause faded, Qin Haodong continued, “I’ll make the second point. Why are so many people clamoring that traditional Chinese medicine is pseudoscience and that traditional Chinese medicine cannot cure diseases? It really comes down to money.”

“Now our country accounts for one quarter of the world’s population. Medically speaking, our country is undoubtedly the biggest market. A little market share is enough to make millions of people rich.”

“There is no doubt that western medicine is well developed now. But at the same time it’s expensive. I’m sure you’ve all experienced its astronomical cost of treatment. We always spend thousands, tens of thousands of yuan every time we go to hospital. A bottle of Beconstantine costs 28,000 yuan.”

“Why is the price of western medicine so high? Because they are foreign ‘monks’. They are other people’s ‘children’. They impose so-called patent fees, research and development fees, all kinds of fees on the people of our country.”

“Traditional Chinese medicine doesn’t have that. It is the treasure our ancestors left us. All Chinese medicine practitioners will not charge the patent fees or R&D fees when they prescribe a formula for treating a disease.”

“By contrast, traditional Chinese medicine, with its low cost and low side effects, was a natural target for vested interests in western medicine. So they try every means to suppress and discredit traditional Chinese medicine, even want to root out traditional Chinese medicine. In the final analysis, traditional Chinese medicine stands in their way. Traditional Chinese medicine makes it cheaper for people to see doctors.”

“Some of those who now say that traditional Chinese medicine is a pseudoscience are brainwashed by western ideas. They don’t know anything about traditional Chinese medicine. Hearing people say that traditional Chinese medicine is not scientific, they also follow the call that traditional Chinese medicine is not scientific, as if they could keep up with the pace of the times and they could elevate their class by calling traditional Chinese medicine unscientific.”

“Others are simply bribed. If they say traditional Chinese medicine is a pseudoscience, they can get hundreds of thousands or even millions of yuan. They are willing to do it.”

“Even if traditional Chinese medicine is really abolished and vanished, they need not worry. It’s because they have become rich. The money they receive is enough for their families to pay the high cost of western medicine, instead of waiting to die like ordinary people.”

At this point, the audience fell silent. Qin Haodong’s speech got everyone thinking. Everyone knew about the debate between Chinese and western medicine, but they had never thought about it deeply.

“If western medicine really replaces traditional Chinese medicine, what changes will it bring to our lives?”

“Some people say that without traditional Chinese medicine, more scientific western medicine can also cure diseases. But have you thought about it? Without low-cost traditional Chinese medicine, western medicine will become unscrupulous. Its research and development expense and patent fees will rise rapidly. If you get a serious illness, you’ll either die or lose everything!”