Volume 1: A sound on Wall Street, Xinxiang City is busy copying books Chapter 168 Harmony is needed
Subtitle of this chapter: We Seres are all little angels of peace
"I'm sorry, Mr. Yuan. I still don't quite understand what you mean."
After listening to Master Yuan's "scientific argument", the four people present thought about it for a long time, and finally Theodore Edison asked the question.
Yuan Yan sighed and said, "Okay, Mr. Edison. Please allow me to make an inappropriate analogy..."
"There are several chicken farms of similar size. One of them, called Europa, has sufficient feed, while the other, called Seris, can only ensure that its chickens don't starve to death. However, the number of chickens raised by these two farms is almost the same. What does this mean?"
He asked himself and answered: "This only shows that the chicken farm in Seris has higher chicken raising skills."
Well, actually this statement is not without problems, but as long as it sounds logically consistent, it's fine.
Unfortunately, Thomas Edison, a great scientist, was not easily fooled by this argument. He directly refuted: "Mr. Yuan, population size is affected by many factors, and medicine is just one of them. The fact that you Chinese have a large population does not prove that you Chinese medicine is more advanced..."
"And I have to point out that although you recovered so quickly, Mr. Yuan, it's not necessarily due to the Chinese medicinal wine. Maybe it's due to other unknown factors?"
Our Master Yuan sighed in his heart. Scientists are not so easy to fool. Moreover, history, or more precisely, the development of medicine, does not leave much time for traditional Chinese medicine. It seems that he has to take it seriously.
Why do people say that the time for traditional Chinese medicine is running out?
Because in the 1920s, the Western medical community had taken off the blinders of ignorance and superstition and saw the dawn of modern medicine.
Until the middle of the 19th century, Chinese medicine was not much inferior to Western medicine in terms of efficacy or theory, except that it was slightly behind Western medicine in anatomy.
The medical theory adopted by the Western medical community at that time was the humorae theory proposed by Hippocrates in the fourth century BC and Galen in the second century AD. This theory believes that the human body contains four different fluids, namely blood, mucus, yellow bile and black bile. They are produced in the heart (blood), brain (mucus), liver (yellow bile) and stomach (black bile).
Hippocrates believed that the four humors formed the nature of the human body and that the condition of the body depended on the correct combination of the four humors.
How much better is this theory of four body fluids than our theory of yin and yang and five elements?
And according to this theory, the treatment methods used by Western medicine are even more horrifying, such as bloodletting, leeches, vacuum cupping, laxatives, and arsenic saunas (specially used to treat Gallic disease), etc. These methods of adjusting the ratio of "body fluids" are really not as good as the acupuncture, massage and herbal medicine of the Seres.
However, with the development of Western science, the cell pathology theory proposed by Rudolf Ludwig Karl Virchow (1821-1902), a German physician known as the "Pope of Medicine", replaced the four humors theory decades ago.
By the way, he was also a famous paleoanthropologist, archaeologist and politician. The Virchow Prize, known as the "Nobel Prize in Medicine", was named after him.
After that, the pathogenicity of bacteria and viruses was also accepted by the Western medical community, and clinical pathology gradually developed.
In other words, the theory of transition from Western medicine to modern medicine is complete, and what is lacking now is... antibiotics.
Without sulfa and penicillin, theories are just theories. For example, Western medicine has figured out the pathogenic mechanism of sepsis, but they can only let patients fight it themselves. For example, tuberculosis bacteria were discovered as early as 1882, but more than 40 years later, tuberculosis is still an incurable disease. There is no other way to relieve the pain of patients except using aphrodisiac products.
Even though our Master Yuan was a time traveler, he could not stop the trend of history from appearing in the market for antibiotics. However, he was able to make traditional Chinese medicine a high-end and classy alternative therapy before the emergence of antibiotics.
He sighed and said, "It seems that Mr. Edison still has some misunderstandings about Chinese medicine... well, medicine."
"Misunderstanding?" The great inventor was stunned when he heard this. He was also a scientist with status and position, and his personality was stubborn to the best of his ability, and self-willed to the worst of his ability.
So he said in a very unhappy tone: "Excuse me, Mr. Yuan, what did I say wrong?"
Yuan Yan replied without any fear: "Mr. Edison, I have to say that your Western philosophy of life is too... well, too aggressive, too aggressive!"
"Veni, Vedi, Vici." He showed off a famous Latin saying and continued, "Just like what Caesar said, when you see a new world, you must conquer it; when you see a pagan, you must conquer the pagan; when you see nature, you must conquer nature; when you see a disease, you must conquer the disease..."
To be honest, we Chinese are really not that aggressive. No wonder that person said, "Struggling with the three talents of heaven, earth and man is really a joy to die.""Woolen cloth.
In that case, I will package the Chinese of this era as little angels of peace.
So Master Yuan said earnestly: "We Chinese are different. We pursue harmony in everything we do. We value harmony in our conduct, in governing the country and the family, in food, clothing, housing and transportation, and even in typing... well, calligraphy, painting, singing, dancing, gardening and other art forms value harmony."
He raised his glass and said, "For example, drinking wine. In spring, we Chinese only drink sweet wine, which is light sweet wine. Spring is the time when everything grows and the liver is the most vulnerable, so we should drink less alcohol and eat more sweets."
"In the summer, we should drink fruit wine with bayberry, lychee, and other fruits. This can replenish vitamins and help the body adapt to the hot climate. It's best to eat some mutton."
Yuan Yanshu thought to himself, it's a pity that you foreigners don't know what "knowing" means. If the dog meat is rolled three times, even a god can't stand.
"In autumn, rice wine made from glutinous rice is best paired with crabs. It is nutritious and delicious."
"In winter, you can drink some strong liquor with a high alcohol content, and have a hot pot... Our Chinese hot pot is similar to butter hot pot, except that we use broth instead of butter. This not only keeps you warm but also invigorates blood circulation and removes blood stasis, allowing you to spend the winter in peace. So..."
"So..." Thomas Edison suddenly interrupted, "You Orientals waste your time on this kind of thing, which is why you lag so far behind us Westerners!"
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