When Lu Xun was a child, his father was seriously ill. When he visited famous doctors in his hometown Shaoxing, all of them were Chinese medicine. According to Mr. Lu Xun's preface to Scream, Chinese medicine practitioners who treated Lu Xun's father liked all kinds of strange "drug citations". The more famous doctors, the more strange the "drug citations" they used-
"Reed roots in winter, sugar cane that has been frosted for three years, crickets that are right, flat wood that bears seeds, ... are not easy things to do. 」
The sentence in quotation marks above is the original text of Lu Xun's preface to Scream. If Mr. Lu Xun dares to write such a sentence so eloquently in such an important collection of short stories, he must not be lying.
Literally, these things are really hard to find, especially the "original cricket". How do I know if that cricket is the original match? If the cricket I caught is not the original match, but a halfway couple or a dew couple, will this "drug introduction" be smashed? This prescription may not work, right? This patient's illness can't be cured?
Sure enough, Lu Xun's father was put to death.
After his father died, Lu Xun was determined to be a doctor when he grew up. Lu Xun had a very happy dream. After returning from studying abroad, he successfully cured many China people who were sick like his father. On the way to study medicine, with more and more medical knowledge, Mr. Lu Xun gradually realized that Chinese medicine is experienced medicine, and such medicine "is just a deliberate or unintentional liar." 」
Speaking of it, before the foundation of modern medicine such as anatomy was established, it was all the medicine of the world, and almost all of them were "intentional or unintentional liars". We often called "witch doctors". At first, witches and doctors were together, and they were all ways for people to fight against diseases through the accumulation of experience from generation to generation.
People don't know exactly why the patient recovered. People only know that someone once suffered from the same disease, and after the witch doctor used that method, the patient recovered. So, people come to the conclusion that that method can treat that kind of disease.
Before people knew immunology, people didn't know that people could heal themselves after being sick. Therefore, the so-called method of treating a certain disease is likely to be futile, and everything is useless.
Such medicine developed purely by experience will certainly have many reasonable aspects, but before the corresponding principles are revealed, many experiences are purely useless medical methods. Therefore, in the face of modern medicine, some methods of traditional Chinese medicine are just unintentional liars.
After the advent of modern medicine, some Chinese medicine practitioners still stubbornly believe that traditional Chinese medicine is good, profound and unscientific, which is a deliberate liar.
Therefore, after learning some knowledge of western medicine and traditional Chinese medicine, Mr. Lu Xun will certainly think that traditional Chinese medicine is "nothing more than a deliberate or unintentional liar." 」