COVID-19 has made great contributions to the treatment, and Zhong Nanshan has cleared the name of Chinese medicine!
Author: Zhang Sheng
Source: mingjin. com (ID: mingjin-wang)
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The epidemic situation is the "touchstone", testing the immunity of individuals and enterprises.
Also accepting the big exam is Chinese medicine!
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This is a topic that is hidden behind COVID-19’s treatment, but runs through it all the time, that is, Chinese medicine or western medicine, which can save lives better, although it has not been put on the table by experts and medical staff, but the infighting has never stopped.
On February 17th, at the press conference of joint prevention and control in the State Council, Jiang Jian, director of the Department of Medical Administration of state administration of traditional chinese medicine, released the latest data: there were 60,107 confirmed cases in which Chinese medicine participated in the treatment, accounting for 85.2%. Outside Hubei, 87% of the confirmed cases were cured, discharged and their symptoms improved.
According to the Hubei Health and Health Commission, as of 24: 00 on February 16th, 58,182 patients were diagnosed in 225 designated hospitals in Hubei, and the utilization rate of traditional Chinese medicine was 83.3% (80% in Wuhan). Among them, 4978 confirmed cases were treated in 42 designated Chinese medicine hospitals, and the utilization rate of Chinese medicine was 96.4%. At present, 11 shelter hospitals simultaneously distribute Chinese medicine decoction and 5 kinds of Chinese patent medicines.
Even so, we haven’t heard much praise for Chinese medicine except that there are fewer voices denouncing "Chinese medicine cheating".
What public opinion can see is the crazy scene after every western medicine is "on the platform" by some scientific research experts and institutions, from people snapping up in pharmacies, to medical institutions in various provinces sending letters to purchase, and then to the stock market arrogance, behind which vested interests earn a lot of money.
However, few people noticed that only chloroquine phosphate and Abidor were added to the latest version of the diagnosis and treatment plan, and there were four kinds of western medicines, including lopinavir and ribavirin, all of which were used for antiviral treatment. The "effective" efficacy expected by countless people did not turn into "specific". The statement that "no effective antiviral treatment has been confirmed at present" has been deleted, which may be the biggest breakthrough of western medicine in six versions.
On the other hand, the diagnosis and treatment of Covid-19 by Chinese medicine was classified from the third edition.
After falling into the category of "diseases of traditional Chinese medicine" and providing treatment methods for four different symptoms, the latest version of the plan clearly states that Chinese medicine has been involved in the whole course of treatment, and divided into two stages: medical observation period and clinical treatment period, and the clinical treatment period is specifically divided into light, ordinary, severe, critical and recovery period. Each stage and each type have detailed clinical manifestations, corresponding specific prescriptions and taking methods.
Undoubtedly, Chinese medicine has made great contributions to the prevention and control of the Covid-19 epidemic.
"It’s better to put medicine on the shelf and hope that people in the world are innocent". One by one, the patients who have been diagnosed recover and are discharged from hospital, and they no longer need doctors and medicines. This is what the majority of Chinese medicine practitioners and people who support Chinese medicine most want to see "praise".
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Academician Zhong Nanshan is the one who should be most grateful to Chinese medicine for making great efforts and not being wronged any more. He was the first person to call on Chinese medicine to fight against Covid-19.
On January 29, 2020, Academician Zhong Nanshan made it clear in an interview: "Chinese medicine should intervene at the beginning, and don’t look for Chinese medicine until it fails at the end."
At the press conference on February 18th, Zhong Nanshan reported the latest progress of Covid-19’s medicine, and once again renamed TCM. He pointed out: "There are quite a few western medicines that are effective in vitro, but not in the human body. However, Chinese medicine is not the same, and some drugs are already very commonly used in clinic. "
In fact, at the beginning of the epidemic, Chinese medicine treatment has been widely involved in other parts of Hubei, but in Wuhan, where the epidemic is the most serious, Chinese medicine has been delayed or even excluded. Chinese medicine has no right to diagnosis and treatment, but it can’t get medicine when it is prescribed.
At the critical moment, Zhong Nanshan, together with other academicians, strongly appealed that Chinese medicine could be gradually involved in epidemic prevention and control in Wuhan with the support of the state.
With the experience and lessons of the first-line fight against SARS 17 years ago, Zhong Nanshan’s judgment is very accurate. When the analysis result of the similarity between Covid-19 and SARS sequences is as high as 80%, his judgment is strengthened.
At that time, Chinese medicine intervened in the treatment of SARS by chance, and Chinese medicine doctors formulated three kinds of decoction:
During the fever period, the No.1 prescription was used to clear lung and detoxify, cool blood and promote qi, and penetrate evil.
In the period of wheezing, the second prescription of clearing heat and relieving asthma, penetrating nutrition and detoxifying, and publicizing the turbid epidemic was used;
In the recovery period, the No.3 prescription was used to clear the residual poison, replenish qi and yin, and tonify the lung and spleen.
This is the famous SARS formula 1, 2 and 3.
For the diagnosis and treatment of Covid-19, Wuhan tongji hospital has developed the corresponding No.3 prescription:
COVID-19 No.1 Prescription (no fever in advanced stage): regulating qi, resolving phlegm, eliminating dampness and cooling blood, which is mainly suitable for critically ill patients with no fever and progressive lung inflammation.
COVID-19 No.2 Prescription (progressive fever prescription): clearing away heat and resolving phlegm, drying dampness and cooling blood, which is mainly suitable for critically ill patients with persistent high fever and progressive lung inflammation.
COVID-19’s No.3 prescription (recovery prescription): invigorating the spleen and benefiting qi, eliminating dampness and promoting blood circulation, which is mainly suitable for patients with fatigue and shortness of breath in recovery period.
At present, the prescription has been promoted to the whole country.
In fact, both SARS and Covid-19 belong to "cold-dampness" diseases in Chinese medicine. The concept of Chinese medicine treatment is to leave the virus in the body alone, but to make people’s cold and damp gas no longer exist, enhance people’s ability to fight viruses, make SARS virus have no living space after entering the human body, and realize the "self-healing" of the human body while putting an end to infection.
This is the most frequently mentioned term since the epidemic: immunity. In the absence of specific drugs, those who are discharged from hospital after treatment rely on enhancing their immunity, thus defeating the virus.
It was only during the SARS period that TCM intervened late. At that time, many TCM experts and scholars jointly wrote to the Central Committee, and then TCM was able to enter the battlefield in Beijing, and achieved a miracle of "over 98% cure rate and no infection among medical staff" in Xiaotangshan Hospital, and the cured patients basically had no sequelae.
If Chinese medicine could participate in the treatment earlier, there would not be such a large mortality rate of SARS, and there would not be many people who suffered from sequelae due to the large use of hormone drugs.
It is worth mentioning that as early as during the SARS epidemic, Professor Deng Tietao, a master of traditional Chinese medicine, made a bold prediction that "SARS will go on its own".
This is indeed the case. Professor Deng Tietao pointed out in an interview: Because the human body’s heat and cold qi rose in May and June, the cold and wet qi disappeared, and the epidemic disease could not be carried on.
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Calligraphy, Peking Opera, Martial Arts and Chinese Medicine are also called the four quintessences of China.
The terrible reality is that we are already surrounded by western medicine, which has become the backbone of the medical field in China. The idea of "three elements and one soup" has been instilled in hundreds of millions of people, which has also led to the distance between Chinese medicine and ordinary people.
Most people are sick, but they have a cold and fever. Whether they go to pharmacies, clinics or hospitals, they are all given antibiotics, hormones and vitamins. It is really impossible to add some glucose injection.
Traditional Chinese medicine focuses on conditioning. In most cases, this kind of minor illness and pain does not need to take medicine. It can heal itself in a week or so without any sequelae.
However, if doctors treat their patients like this and go home with a cold to drink more water and have a good rest, then the hospital will have to drink northwest wind.
What is even more frightening is that Japan, South Korea, the United States, Germany and other countries with the most developed medicine in the world are keen on studying Chinese medicine, and hundreds of foreign pharmaceutical companies and research institutions are looking for and developing new drugs from Chinese medicine; Among foreign students studying in China, the number of people studying Chinese medicine ranks first; According to the statistics of World Patent Database, among the patents of Chinese herbal medicines and botanical medicines in the world, the number of patent applications for traditional Chinese medicines accounts for 44.4%, but only 0.3% belongs to China.
Yes, Chinese medicine has been paid attention to all over the world, but everything seems to have nothing to do with China. Many experts and scholars are still busy arguing about "which is the more authentic Chinese medicine and western medicine", and some buffoons have jumped out to discredit Chinese medicine everywhere, which has to be said to be a national sorrow.
Outside of China, Japan is the largest producer and consumer of traditional Chinese medicine. Their Chinese prescriptions absorb all the essence of traditional Chinese medicine. According to the ancient prescription of Zhang Zhongjing’s Treatise on Febrile Diseases, 210 patents have been owned by Japan. While our hospitals are still worried that Chinese medicine will not make money and students refuse to learn Chinese medicine, Japan has won 90% of the world’s Chinese medicine market, while our own is only 3%.
What is even sadder is that 75% of the raw materials for the production of traditional Chinese medicine in Japan are imported from China, and in turn, the drugs produced are sold to us at the price of 10 times or even dozens of times. Every year, our compatriots sell them in Japan, and most people don’t know that those drugs are available in China.
The following video made all Chinese people think deeply. Japanese dare to shout out the slogan "Now we will learn Chinese medicine from China and let China learn from us in ten years", but we seem to have no choice.
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Many people always like to talk about the science and pharmacology of traditional Chinese medicine. I quite agree with Academician Han Qide of Chinese Academy of Sciences.
He said: Chinese medicine is good, not necessarily scientific. But science does not lie in being correct. Without science, it can be said that it is incorrect.
We should know that the theory of traditional Chinese medicine was formed in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period more than 2,000 years ago, and science was only a system recognized by some people on earth after the development of human civilization in 1500 AD.
To put it simply, Chinese medicine makes you confused and alive, and you can’t understand and clearly explain the therapeutic process of drug efficacy in the body, so it is wrong. Is this logic right?
We don’t deny that Chinese medicine, like western medicine, has many defects, but there is no perfect treatment for any disease in the world, but this does not hinder the greatness of Chinese medicine.
Tu Youyou, a "three noes" scientist in China, invented artemisinin, which won the Nobel Prize in medicine, and helped mankind conquer malaria. She was inspired by the classics of traditional Chinese medicine and won the highest honor of traditional Chinese medicine for China in the world.
As a Chinese, we don’t want to see the traditional Chinese medicine left by our ancestors as a treasure in other countries, but not cherished by ourselves. I hope it can inspire more people and prevent our future generations from going abroad when they want to see traditional Chinese medicine.
There is no contradiction between traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) and western medicine (WM).
Finally, I would like to share a cartoon with you, which vividly depicts the difference between Chinese medicine and western medicine in treating diseases and epidemics.
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