The "quintessence" of traditional Chinese medicine cannot be separated from the law

Not long ago, some media disclosed that there are at least 150,000 folk Chinese medicine practitioners in the country who have been "illegal" for a long time. Protecting and improving the living environment of folk Chinese medicine is more important than excavating and sorting out folk medicine resources, and the legal practice of folk Chinese medicine should be solved from the source.

       Some time ago, Tu Youyou's winning of the Nobel Prize sparked a wave of "traditional Chinese medicine fever", and "Chinese medicine" has become a hot topic among experts, scholars and even ordinary people all over the world. But if I don’t say I don’t know, I was shocked when I said it. There are 150,000 folk Chinese medicine practitioners who are “illegally practicing medicine” without a license to practice medicine at all.

       According to media reports, these 150,000 folk Chinese medicine practitioners are in a useful, beneficial but "illegal" state. The reason is that the threshold set by the Law on Practicing Physicians restricts the development of folk Chinese medicine, making it difficult for folk Chinese medicine to obtain "qualification" despite its "skills".

       my country's Licensed Physician Law implements classified practice of physicians, but the classification of the scope of practice of TCM categories is seriously out of touch with the actual clinical situation. Even TCM graduates from regular colleges can only squeeze into the relatively marginal "Traditional Chinese Medicine Department" of general hospitals. Those who don't get in can only be diverted to other positions. There are too many monks, and it is difficult for Chinese medicine practitioners from famous schools to obtain qualifications. Naturally, there will be no dramas of "folk doctors".

       In the current situation where Western medicine is booming and Chinese medicine is declining, Chinese medicine has also been squeezed into the cracks of the law. Without rules, it is naturally difficult to achieve a square circle, which has caused a lot of strange phenomena in the world of Chinese medicine: before Tu Youyou won the Nobel Prize, few people knew her real name, but it was Zhang Wuben, Ma Yueling and other scammers who pretended to be Chinese medicine and made a lot of money ; Some "folk proven prescriptions" that have not been verified are popular, but the resources of traditional Chinese medicine are running on their own.

       Zhang Wuben's sentence "eating long eggplants can cure various difficult and miscellaneous diseases" once made it hard to find a long eggplant in the market; Ma Yueling said "eating raw loach" can cure all diseases, and more than a hundred people followed this He got poisoned and was hospitalized. These people cheated under the guise of Chinese medicine theories, which also caused the public to misunderstand Chinese medicine, thinking that Chinese medicine is a lie, and ruined the reputation of Chinese medicine as the "quintessence of the country".

       It is time to solve the chaos of traditional Chinese medicine. The author believes that the most urgent task is to solve the "three chaos" of Chinese medicine through legislation.

       The first is to break the chaos of practicing qualifications, and formulate a law on the practice of Chinese medicine practitioners, so that "useful and beneficial" folk Chinese medicine practitioners have a license, and they can use the pot to help the world and save people. .

       The second is to excavate and sort out folk prescriptions and promote them to avoid deviations in the "word of mouth" model of traditional Chinese medicine. Not all "folk prescriptions" are the essence, and some are simply nonsense that does not conform to medical principles. For example, a few years ago, the media reported that Zhang Keqin, an old man in Dengzhou, Henan, saw a "small prescription" for gallstones in a magazine. He died of poisoning after taking the medicine purchased according to the proven prescription.

       The third is to return traditional Chinese medicine to its original nature through legislation, so that there are legal procedures to follow for the diagnosis and treatment of traditional Chinese medicine. Under the concept of folk Chinese medicine that "cures serious illnesses with folk remedies", some folk remedies and proven prescriptions spread on their own, creating a situation where "all people have access to medicine". Traditional Chinese medicine is added to a variety of foods under the theory of "the same origin of medicine and food", and is boasted by the merchants as a panacea that can "eat back" the disease. In fact, many of them are just exaggerated, or even hype.

       TCM is China's great contribution to the world. How to make the "national quintessence" of traditional Chinese medicine flourish in the world, and let more "Tu Youyou" appear in the field of traditional Chinese medicine, there is really an urgent need for a special law to set things right, eliminate the false and preserve the true, and rectify the source, so as to "feel the pulse" and open a " Fang Zi".