In modern times, some new trendy figures who strongly rejected, denigrated and even advocated the “abolition of Chinese medicine”, once it came to treating illnesses and saving lives, were not exactly like what they said themselves: they were determined not to invite Chinese medicine practitioners to treat illnesses, but sometimes they also adopted a pragmatic attitude and had no choice but to give up their rejection of Chinese medicine, like Wu Rulun After all, there are very few people like Wu Rulun who “refused to give Chinese medicine a try until his death”, Chen Yinke who “preferred Western medicine to death rather than Chinese medicine”, and Ding Wenjiang who “would rather die without Chinese medicine than see a Chinese doctor”. The number of people who would rather be treated by Western medicine than by Chinese medicine” and Ding Wenjiang’s “I’d rather die than see a Chinese medicine doctor” are, after all, very few.
For some chronic diseases, difficult and incurable diseases, when Western medicine is helpless, Chinese medicine may have a chance of survival, in such cases, the majority of people will not easily give up a ray of hope, and sometimes actively seek Chinese medicine treatment.
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“Modern China’s first proposed abolition of Chinese medicine,” Yu Yue, because “hate the common doctor do not know the ancient, often increase the number of people sick”, as the “abolition of medical theory. After that, there is no medicine, committed to the fate of the day, after a serious illness, the famous Hangzhou doctor Chung Ang Ting diagnosis and treatment and healing, lamenting that “the road is not extinct.”
Although Yan Fu admonished his granddaughter that “if you listen to Chinese doctors, you will be wrong”, in his later years, when he was suffering from asthma, he still treated it with home-made Chinese ointment.
Although Sun Yat-sen said that he had a “lifelong fetish for not taking Chinese medicine”, he was still persuaded by his family and friends to take Chinese medicine when he was stricken with cancer and the Union Hospital declared that there was nothing that could be done.
Liang Qichao, the leading figure of the “Hundred Days’ Reform”, was originally sick in his right kidney and had more than one blood in his urine. “Liu Ruiheng, a professor of surgery and the president of Peking Union Medical College Hospital, operated on him, and when he was distracted, he cut off his left kidney as a bad kidney. After being discharged from the hospital, he still urinated blood, and because his condition “had the appearance of increasing, he had to try Chinese medicine.
Although Guo Moruo said that “I will never bother a Chinese doctor until I die”, in his later years, he had difficulty moving his right limb, which affected his daily life and work, but Zheng Drow used a folk remedy called “mulberry wine” to cure him.
Mao Zishui, who was known as an “encyclopedic scholar” in the “May Fourth” era, was a famous figure who was fiercely opposed to Chinese medicine, but “one year, the doctor suspected that Mao Gong had cancerous symptoms in his lungs, and Mao Gong’s wife, Ms. Juying, came to discuss the matter, and decided that Mao Gong was too old to be subjected to the pain of surgery.
In the winter of 1954, Tang Tong attended a meeting hosted by the People’s Daily to criticize Hu Shi, and after returning home, he suffered a brain hemorrhage and was unconscious for nearly a month. In 1960, when he was nearly seventy years old, he was able to read and study again. From then on, Tong Tong Tong Tong “changed from extreme opposition to Chinese medicine to extreme admiration”.