A Preliminary Study On Modern Historical Destiny Of Traditional Chinese Medicine

The Qing Dynasty implemented isolation policy, and made China lost contactwith the outside world. When the western world of modernization couldnot open thegate of China with goods, they changed to use the ships and guns. Then the gatecorrupted into a smoldering rubble, and western things poured into China just like theflood , and almost the whole of China were inundated by western culture. There werewestern artifacts, system, ideological, cultural, including western medicine. TheChinese first feared and resisted, second felt it and thought it, and finally he waslearning it and worshiping it.With the introduction of modern western medicine, Traditional Chinese Medicinealso suffered "a situation three thousand years never met", that changed its inherentrunning track. Under the impact of western medicine, Traditional Chinese Medicinewas questioned. Especially the government implemented western medical systemoverall, and formed a situation of "western medicine hold office, Traditional ChineseMedicine out of office."In the medical profession, western doctors mostly held thegauge of the western medicine to measure the Traditional Chinese Medicine. Theydeemed Chinese medicine unscientific, and even bought Chinese medicine to death.Inthe social chattering classes, some influential politicians and academics publishedspeech,suggesting to abolish TCM.In the government level, the "Education system without TCM" of Beijinggovernment in 1914, "Case of bolish TCM to eliminate medical disorder " of ROCgovernment in 1929, etc, these historical events fully showing the bumpyfate ofmodern Chinese medicine.Traditional Chinese Medicine as a science have its own defects. There has beenno breakthrough development confined by China’s traditional culture;Quack prowled and fake drugs everywhere because there were no threshold for Chinese medicinepractitioners.Plus western medicine comparison, the TCM shew more insufficient inthe surgical.In fact, Chinese medicine these internal factors of TCM, against the trendof The Times, and determined its fate in modern times.Facing the serious historical situation, TCM launched a series of self-helpaction.They Founded school in order to foster talents of TCM, set up hospital to makea diagnosis , organized groups to study TCM academic, run newspapers to advertisethe effect of TCM,and so on.The good news was that, modern Chinese medicinemade some development ,despite being in the crisis.With the fierce collision betweenChinese and western medicine,“The scientific thought TCM”arised at the historicmoment, which made an important contribution to the survival and development ofTCM.Throughout the Chinese modern medical pattern, Traditional Chinese Medicineholds the first subject status. The vast Chinese medicine were still trusted by most ofthe people. However, that TCM in the influences of western culture and westernmedicine gradually declined was also the fact.What deserve to be mentioned is that,the CCP adopted the attitude of the equal emphasis on traditional Chinese and westernmedicine, which played a part in protecting the Chinese medicine.The historical destiny of Modern TCM is mainly composed of deficiencies andwestern culture, western medicine .The attitude to Chinese traditional culture and thewestern culture, and the attitude to the relationship between them was the key. As forthe future of traditional Chinese medicine, Mao Zedong once said that, "Chinesemedicine is a great treasure, what we do is to seek it and improve it", "this is a greatthing that shouldnot be granted".