Is TCM reliable in curing diseases?

Reliable, but the effect of traditional Chinese medicine will not be so obvious, traditional Chinese medicine is to regulate the root cause, the effect is slow, but adhere to the conditioning for a period of time will have a good effect.

In 1685, at the age of 54, Charles II suffered a mild stroke, and 12 doctors immediately inflicted a terrible death on the king

First, the royal physicians cut the king's veins, released a pint and a half of blood, and then gave the king an emetic that caused him to vomit.

In contrast, a potion made with fennel, cinnamon, cardamom, violets, beetroot, salt, etc. (sure this isn't a kitchen seasoning?). Give His Majesty an enema.

One was enough, but the royal physicians had to give the king an enema every two hours, and it lasted five days.

Seeing that the king's condition did not improve (how could there be an improvement in such treatment?) The royal physicians, in a noble work ethic, shaved the king's hair, and then the doctors burned Charles II's scalp with a red-hot soldering iron. In order to burn the king's scalp out of the bubble.

Scalding the blood blisters in order to squeeze out the blood blisters again (don't ask why, who knows)...As the saying goes, there is a head and a tail, and the king smears pigeon droppings on the soles of his feet. Then the king stuffed sneeze powder into his nostrils and covered his whole body with a hot plaster.

It wasn't an emetic for the king before, but this time it was ground into powder from the severed skull from the corpse, mixed with laxatives, and given to the king to drink. Thanks to the efforts of the royal doctors, on February 6, Charles II finally died.

And Charles II's ** team included members of the Royal Society. How can a developed country, a wise monarch, a state-of-the-art medical team, their medical practices be foolish and ridiculous? We cannot laugh at the ancients with the eyes of modern people, and in the circumstances of the time, they did nothing wrong.

Are we looking back on this incident today just to show the psychological superiority of our modern people? Of course not. From this, we can understand a simple and unfamiliar truth that many people ignore, that science and technology - especially medicine - is constantly developing.

For the things of the past, it is necessary to constantly verify them with science and constantly update and iterate on medical knowledge in order to make continuous progress. Ancient medicine in Britain has been abandoned, does our ancient medicine need to be updated and iterated? Do we still have to follow the "Yellow Emperor's Neijing", "Treatise on Typhoid Fever and Miscellaneous Diseases" 2,000 years ago, and the "Compendium of Materia Medica" 500 years ago?

I think that today's traditional Chinese medicine doctors should be far more than Li Shizhen 500 years ago and Zhang Zhongjing 2000 years ago, after all, they grew up on the shoulders of giants. Therefore, when discussing medical views with me, you don't use the theories of the ancients to support yourself, I would rather hear what theories the current president of the Chinese Medicine Association has. The ancient sages of medicine need your admiration, don't use their names to say things at will.

I haven't experienced it personally, but I've learned a lot about similar situations, including:

1.Listening to home remedies leads to death: Some people have excessive trust in traditional Chinese medicine**, and even promote some unscientific and unverified ancient home remedies for eliminating wild fields, which leads to aggravation of the disease and eventually loss of life.

2.Delay in diagnosis and treatment has serious consequences: because of the fear of excessive doctors**, or because of the fear of high medical costs, some people will choose self-medication or home remedies**, resulting in aggravation of the condition, delaying the best time, and even leading to blindness, paralysis and other consequences.

3.Lack of absolute trust in medical knowledge: Some people have no mind about the medical information circulating on the Internet, do not judge the authenticity of the medical information, and blindly believe the wrong medical information, which leads to the deterioration of their condition.

In general, medical care is a professional knowledge discipline that requires professional personnel to carry out **, not just on their own imagination and experience. Moreover, with the continuous development of medical technology, many diseases have better solutions and safer methods. Therefore, we should maintain the right attitude towards medical treatment and increase our medical knowledge level in order to better protect the health of ourselves and our families.