"...Traditional dicine, as an intangible cultural heritage, is continuously integrating into modern life, deeply embedding itself in the lives of ordinary people. The global influence of traditional Chinese dicine (TCM) is also significantly rising, providing a Huaxia solution for safeguarding human health. It holds great significance in promoting mutual learning between civilizations, cultural connectivity, and building a community with a shared future for mankind..."
"This conference brings together authoritative experts and renowned scholars of traditional Chinese dicine, consolidating consensus, exchanging ideas, and contributing wisdom. This will effectively promote the inheritance, innovation, and developnt of traditional dicine as an intangible cultural heritage, enabling it to better serve the people and make greater contributions to building a healthy China and serving human health..."
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"...The civilizational elents embodied in traditional Chinese dicine are the foundational logic underpinning the cultural confidence of the Huaxia nation. If a civilization does not have a deep philosophical and scientific understanding of its survival principles and life activities in its interactions with history and nature, and is instead swayed by the thoughts of other civilizations, how can it speak of cultural confidence? Therefore, recognizing traditional Chinese dicine, loving traditional Chinese dicine, is the most important channel for enhancing the cultural confidence of the Chinese nation..."
"...In recent years, the state has introduced a series of policy asures to promote the developnt of traditional Chinese dicine, protect intangible cultural heritage, and develop traditional Chinese dicine culture, providing direction for how traditional dicine as an intangible cultural heritage can adapt to modern developnt..."
"...Promoting the systematic protection and high-quality developnt of traditional dicine as an intangible cultural heritage should scientifically grasp the five major characteristics of Chinese-style modernization. Guided by the significant relations of Chinese-style modernization, it should adhere to a people-centered approach, uphold the core concept of human-oriented, life-first, inherit the essence, and innovate while maintaining integrity, protecting ’the foundation and the source, the root and the soul,’ and continuously broadening the scope..."
"...We must maintain theoretical, practical, and academic confidence in traditional Chinese dicine and avoid the ’mythicization’ and ’vulgarization’ of it, allowing traditional dicine as an intangible cultural heritage to display the wisdom of Huaxia people in serving human health and building a healthy China..."
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The conference began with speeches from leaders at various levels.
The content was very official, essentially saying everything without saying anything specific.
That’s how it is in officialdom.
Lu Jiu sat in the audience, quietly waiting for these leaders to finish speaking.
During this ti, he occasionally glanced around at the people sitting nearby.
He noticed that many of the tables had naplates on them, which seed to indicate the intangible cultural heritage techniques represented by each individual.
For example, "Heir of Martial Arts Acupoint Technique," "Heir of Yellow Emperor’s Inner Needle," "Heir of Hand Acupuncture," "Heir of Tibetan External Treatnt Technique," and so on.
Clearly, there are quite a few skilled individuals in Jinling.
At least, these traditional Chinese dicinal techniques were new to Lu Jiu.
He was particularly curious about the Hand Acupuncture.
If you really can substitute fingers for needles, and the efficacy is comparable to acupuncture, that would be impressive.
You wouldn’t need to carry anything with you when you go out.
The Martial Arts Acupoint Technique might be a similar technique.
However, curious as he was, Lu Jiu didn’t envy them.
Techniques are rely thods for treating diseases; accumulating too many is of limited significance.
Only by strengthening diagnosis is at the core of traditional Chinese dicine.
Once you understand where the patient’s problem lies, the solution becos much easier.
If one only masters an array of techniques without improving diagnostic skills, many diseases will remain unsolvable.
"Alright, since all the leaders have given their full support to this conference, let’s invite Professor Glado from De Hans to talk about her perspective on traditional Chinese dicine. Please welco her!"
Amidst applause, a white-haired woman ascended the stage.
Lu Jiu’s gaze also shifted to her.
"Hello everyone, it’s a pleasure to et you all. I am from De Hans and I am an acupuncturist. My ntor was a Huaxia person who taught a lot about traditional Chinese dicine and told that there are many excellent TCM practitioners in Huaxia. So, from a young age, I have longed for Huaxia. Whenever I have so free ti, I’ve co to visit here over the years."
"I must say, Huaxia is really vast and beautiful, with a super diverse cuisine. If not for my work, I’d love to live here permanently. However, after many visits, I’ve noticed a problem, which is that many Huaxia people don’t seem to understand traditional Chinese dicine or grasp its intrinsic aning. Sotis when I talk with Huaxia people about whether TCM is effective, most hold a skeptical view, and a few think it’s effective, but only for managing chronic illnesses."
"Of course, we in traditional Chinese dicine can manage chronic illnesses, but we can also treat acute diseases. When treating a patient with acute symptoms caused by chronic diseases, we essentially prioritize treating the acute symptoms first, then gradually manage the chronic condition. However, many Huaxia people don’t seem to understand this, and even many TCM practitioners believe that traditional Chinese dicine cannot treat acute diseases."
"This is really an absurd situation!"
The audience listened attentively to the phenonon Glado described, and it was sothing everyone understood.
It’s not just ordinary people; even many formally trained TCM practitioners haven’t studied the history of traditional Chinese dicine.
Many TCM practitioners can’t even treat the most basic cold due to wind-cold and confidently assert that it’s a self-limiting disease which is normal not to cure.
In fact, many serious illnesses initially start with a common cold.
So people can recover from a cold in seven days, but others with weaker constitutions may not be able to self-cure.
If such individuals’ conditions prolong too much, the invading pathogens might travel from the muscles into the internal organs, transforming into more serious illnesses.
The saying that a hundred diseases start with wind is the best illustration.
Clearly, when traditional Chinese dicine becos entrapped by the nonclature constraints of modern dicine, no matter how much is learned, it’s hard to separately view the patient’s whole situation.
Once traditional Chinese dicine steps away from the diagnostic and treatnt orientation based on differentiation of symptoms and signs, it naturally becos unable to address acute conditions and ineffective for chronic diseases.
The speed of symptom relief may not be as quick as so Western dicines.
When compared, the public naturally leans towards Western dicine.
"The greatest thoracic surgeon in the world once left a ssage after his death: The best way to treat heart disease is not to operate on it. This sentence left a deep impression on . De Hans announced a dical research seven years ago, showing that no matter how you operate on it, heart disease can’t be cured, but Tongxinluo can treat acute heart disease."
"Tongxinluo is definitely our strength in traditional Chinese dicine, and since the heart is considered the monarch of organs, inherently not susceptible to diseases, operating is more harmful than beneficial to the heart. Yet, modern dicine still performs surgeries on heart disease patients, especially in Huaxia, where I found your Western dicine has developed on a much larger scale than ours in De Hans. I don’t deny that surgeries can save many families, but excessive surgeries have also hard many patients."
"Actually, we have inherent advantages in TCM for treating heart diseases, especially with acupuncture. I have treated many heart disease patients in De Hans, and their feedback has been exceptionally positive. Conditions like myocardial infarction, coronary heart disease, heart failure, etc., we can treat these, and the efficacy far exceeds Western dicine."
"Many of you here are definitely more skilled than in dicine, and I sincerely hope you can go out more and engage with the international community. In my view, traditional Chinese dicine and acupuncture shouldn’t belong solely to Huaxia; they should belong to the world. They are treasures of humanity, and we should promote and pass them on so that people worldwide can benefit from this dical practice..."
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