What did ancient Western medicine rely on to cure diseases?

Western medicine is the medicine of Western countries, Chinese medicine is traditional Chinese medicine, and Western countries discovered chemical knowledge very early, so Western medicine relies on Western medicines to treat diseases. For example, the discovery of penicillin, penicillin is a kind of antibiotic, which is a drug extracted from the culture medium of Penicillium, and is the first antibiotic capable of human diseases.

The discoverer of penicillin was the British bacteriologist Fleming. One day in 1928, Fleming was studying staphylococcus bacteria, which cause fever in the human body, in one of his modest laboratories. Since the lid was not properly closed, he noticed that the agar used to grow the bacteria had a layer of Penicillium attached to it.

This was from the window of a scholar who studied penicillium upstairs. To Fleming's surprise, in the immediate vicinity of Penicillium, the staphylococci suddenly disappeared. Fascinated by this serendipitous discovery, he managed to grow the mold in several experiments that proved that penicillin could kill all staphylococci in a matter of hours.

Fleming thus invented penicillin, the nemesis of staphylococcus.

In 1929, Fleming published a scholarly report on his findings, but they were not taken seriously at the time, and the problem of penicillin purification was not yet solved.

In 1935, Philip Lee, a biochemist at the University of Oxford, and Flory, a physicist, became interested in Fleming's discovery. Chin was responsible for the cultivation of Penicillium and the isolation, purification and strengthening of penicillin, which increased its antibacterial power by thousands of times, and Florey was responsible for observing and testing animals. So far, the efficacy of penicillin has been demonstrated.

Due to the discovery and mass production of penicillin, the lives of millions of patients with pneumonia, meningitis, abscess, and sepsis were saved, and many wounded and sick people were rescued in time. The advent of penicillin caused a sensation in the world at that time. In recognition of this contribution to the benefit of mankind, Fleming, Chin and Florey were jointly awarded the Nobel Prize in Medicine and Physiology in 1945.

Ancient Western medicine also had herbal medicines.

The originator of ancient Western medicine was Hippocrates.

Western medicine was born in ancient Greece, and the recognized originator of medicine was Hippocrates 2,600 years ago, who established the theory of body fluids: there are four body fluids in the human body - blood, yellow bile, black bile and mucus, and if these fluids are out of balance, diseases will arise.

For example, fever, accompanied by flushing of the body and face, is an imbalance of blood stasis, and the first method is bloodletting. He emphasized the observation of breathing, body temperature, pulse, stool, and urine, and his discourse was compiled into the Hippocratic Corpus.

Before the 19th century, Western medicine was not a little different from Chinese medicine, and it was basically not much different from witchcraft. At that time, Western medicine mainly dealt with patients by three means: drinking the "holy water" given by the church, bloodletting** and opium tincture. It's very low-level technology.

The first is the "holy water" given by the church. Europeans do not have the habit of drinking hot water, so it is both "holy water" and raw water. To put it bluntly, holy water is the same as China's immortal quest, just theology, typical feudal superstition.

But it doesn't matter, the cure of "holy water" must be its credit, if it is not cured, the conclusion is that the timing is wrong and the heart is not sincere.

The second method is bloodletting, which comes from the ancient Greek physician Hippocrates, according to his view, all people rely on four body fluids: blood, mucus, black bile, and yellow bile. Later, the ancient Roman physician Galen also believed that blood can provide "vitality" to people, so if someone is sick, it must be because there is too much blood in the body, resulting in too much vitality.

If a person is sick, the "excess" blood in the body must be drained.

So, in Guda Europe, whether you have a cold and fever, or pneumonia and cough, you will be punished with bloodletting**. Looks a bit like punishment. It seems to be similar to stimulate people's hematopoietic function, stimulate vitality, and defeat the virus.

The third way is to eat opium tincture, opium tincture is produced in the Middle East, belongs to the "imported medicine", although it is not expensive, but because the ancient Europeans regarded it as a miracle medicine. As the greatest physician in ancient Europe, Galen believed that opium could prevent poisoning and poisonous insect bites, and could prevent all kinds of diseases such as chronic headaches, epilepsy, stroke, various coughs, diseases, depression and plague, etc.

In the 16th century, there was a medical wizard named Parassos in Europe, and one of the secrets of his success was the use of opium tincture. Before the discovery of bacteria, European medicine did not understand the disease, they felt that the disease was pain, they just wanted to reduce the pain, so they didn't know how to ** the disease, you can imagine how many people were delayed.

Therefore, opium tincture is also very popular, no matter what kind of disease, just have some opium tincture. According to statistics, during the reign of Queen Victoria, opium tincture was basically a common medicine at home, fever, cold, headache, brain fever, vomiting and diarrhea, all relied on him.

Therefore, although the life of ancient Chinese people is much lower than that of modern times, it is a very happy thing compared to ancient Europe, and when you travel to Europe, you have to pray not to catch a cold or something, not to let it be regarded as other diseases, let some blood, eat some opium, if you want not to be cured, you can only rely on the will of God.

In ancient times, there was no Western medicine, and China has always been traditional Chinese medicine. The only thing that has a connection with Western medicine is that Hua Tuo wants to do a craniotomy for Cao Cao.

In ancient times, there was no Western medicine, and it was more appropriate for ancient Western doctors to be called witch doctors, who were good at bloodletting** various diseases, in fact, there was no use, and Western medicine slowly appeared after having high-tech products.

In ancient times, there was Western medicine, during the Kangxi period of the Qing Dynasty. Emperor Kangxi was cured of dysentery through the cinchona cream of Western medicine.

In the medical texts left by ancient Rome, there are more than 500 kinds of herbs, as well as hundreds of animals and minerals.

People who have been infected develop resistance to the virus. Ancient China did indeed discover this effect. But how much blood a person can have, he will definitely not be able to control the epidemic. They can only isolate out and try their best to **.

Most of the ancient Chinese** were mainly internal and external medicines. Combined with acupuncture, cupping and other methods, it can accelerate the effect of the drug in the body. The medicine of the ancient Chinese has a great connection with Zhou Yi, and the ancients believed that human beings belong to nature, and any disease can be found in nature.

Instead of modern human science, which is completely human-centered and believes that nature is at the service of human beings, this narrow thinking destroys the balance of nature, and thinks that it has long been the master of nature.

What Science Can Do It's better not to risk experimenting with earthworks.

This is heresy and is simply impossible, whether it is a human or an animal. In fact, it is not his blood that is needed, but the antibodies in his body. Got it?

It is possible that smallpox was cured in this way in ancient times.

In ancient China, the average life expectancy was already 300 years. After the introduction of Western medicine to China, the average life expectancy in China suddenly fell to 70 years.

It's sad. Plague, tuberculosis, rabies, diphtheria, whooping cough, leprosy, smallpox, are all solved by Chinese medicine. It's amazing.

The Yellow Emperor's Neijing and Treatise on Typhoid Fever both say that six out of ten people died of plague, and seven out of ten. Chinese medicine fans are blind and can't see.

The logic of Chinese medicine powder is that the diseases that can be cured by Western medicine are all taken for granted, and no one will be cured. And Chinese medicine is not cut in **.

Then let's compare Chinese and Western medicine.

I advise you to understand the four arithmetic first, and then do calculus.

As the saying goes, medicine is three parts poisonous, and any drug has a certain toxicity, and Chinese medicine is slightly better.

This seems to be a bit too demanding.

Western medicine generally has ***.

For example, if you take cold medicine, many people are prone to sleepiness after taking it, which is ***. It is equivalent to cutting meat and mending sores.

The same is true for surgery, such as appendix surgery, which often involves removing the appendix.

But existence is reasonable, so the removal of the body is still cured, and there is also a great *** here for other places.

I don't know much about Western medicine, but I just know some superficial things, and I really don't know what Western medicine can do to cure the disease. Many chronic diseases in Western medicine cannot be cured at all, such as liver disease, hyperlipidemia, etc., which make you keep taking medicine but cannot be cured, and you can't follow it.

But Chinese medicine can.

Western medicine is very good in examination, it can tell you in detail the changes of some indicators in the patient's body, and the treatment of emergencies, monitoring, surgical facilities and means are relatively complete. However, Western medicine cannot tell you the reason for the change of indicators, and most of the drugs are imposed by the outside world, rather than regulating the body's own functions to eliminate the disease. For example, the surgical resection of the tumor is very good, but I can't find **, and it may grow again after a while.

In terms of chronic diseases, Western medicine can only control the dosage carefully to control the disease. Vaccinations are still quite effective.