regret! The thousand-year-old Chinese medicine skills stolen by foreigners

You may not know that traditional Chinese medicine is gaining more and more attention around the world, but unexpectedly, all of this has nothing to do with China. What matters to us is only the provision of raw materials for traditional Chinese medicine to Japan, South Korea and other countries.

As the only birthplace of Chinese herbal medicine, China today only accounts for 2% of the world's sales of Chinese herbal medicine in the international TCM market, while Japan firmly holds the top spot with a 90% market share. South Korea and Taiwan account for 5%-7%. Before his death in 1980, Keiseki Otsuka, a Japanese medical authority who was awarded the "Highest Merit Award" by the Japan Medical Association, once advised his disciples: "Now we learn Chinese medicine from China, and 10 years later, let China learn from us." Unfortunately, his words came true.

In Japan, the most popular items in supermarkets and pharmacies are Chinese herbal medicines. Even Chinese tourists buy a lot of them and take them back to give to relatives and friends.

After drinking a glass, I felt much better in a short while. Several years have passed now and there has been no recurrence. "A Chinese engineer who travels to Japan for business all year round told reporters.

The leading companies producing Kampo medicines are concentrated in a few companies such as Jincun. They specially opened a pharmaceutical company in Shenzhen that is involved in Chinese herbal medicines, and hired retired pharmacists from Chinese pharmaceutical companies as technical instructors at high salaries. The company deals with more than 500 kinds of Chinese medicinal raw materials and herbal medicines, including ginseng, cinnamon, and bupleurum.

There is no shortage of "undercover agents" on the American side either. A person in the pharmaceutical industry told the reporter that a few years ago, Americans came to Yuncheng, Shanxi Province in a tour group to treat tuberculosis. There was an old Chinese doctor in the local area who had unique skills. He once publicly challenged: "Any hospital that says it cannot cure the patient and finally issues a critical illness notice can be sent to me. I guarantee that the patient will get better in one month and be discharged from the hospital in three months." The American patients came here just to get his prescription for treating tuberculosis.

Another example is coronary heart disease, which is now the number one killer of humans. The current situation is that Chinese people now treat foreign stents as treasures. You must know that stents only temporarily solve the problem of stenosis, and subsequent stents are more likely to cause blood clots. Little did we know that among the unique skills our ancestors left us, there is a skill for treating coronary heart disease. It's a pity that we picked up sesame seeds and lost watermelons.

In 2008, relevant US departments allocated another 5 million yuan to Peking Union Medical College Hospital, entrusting the hospital to help it understand my country's traditional Chinese medicine resources and their development and utilization.

Nowadays, Chinese traditional medicine practitioners in their sixties and seventies may enjoy special treatment of "open green card" when they go to the United States.

A professor of traditional Chinese medicine cannot open a pharmacy in China, let alone a hospital - he is a teacher, cannot take the examination to become a practicing physician, and does not have the right to prescribe. To open a hospital, you must have an area of ​​100 square meters, staffed by inspectors, pharmacists, and more than five doctors. At the age of 63, he traveled across the ocean. In the United States, I live directly in my son's house and practice medicine.

In order to leave some food for other doctors, his rule was to see only 30 patients a day. In order to avoid the harm of inferior medicinal materials, we specially import medicinal materials from Hong Kong. The monthly income is more than 90,000 US dollars, and after paying taxes, there is more than 60,000 left. In the United States, you can buy a house for $100,000. "You don't need anything to open a clinic in the United States, but there is one thing: the health department comes to check prescriptions every other day. They want to learn something."

Chen Yong, an associate professor at Hunan University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, wrote an article about his investigation in the United States titled "The Hot Sales of Chinese Herbal Medicines in the U.S. Market: Reflections and Suggestions on the Research of Chinese Herbal Medicines in my country". This article, sent from the other side of the ocean, is now on the reporter's desk. He said in the article: "In 1994, the United States passed a law that supplements such as Chinese herbal medicines can enter the US market directly without FDA approval and be sold in organic food stores. Seeing the shelves of American organic food stores filled with various Chinese herbal preparations makes me happy and ashamed. I am happy that Chinese herbal preparations are so popular in the United States and that there is hope for the development of traditional Chinese medicine. I am ashamed that among the dazzling array of Chinese herbal preparations, not a single one is made in China."

In April this year, a friend was diagnosed with nasal inflammation and was treated with antibiotics. He refused and went to an organic food store and bought a pure Chinese herbal spray produced in Germany. The spray worked immediately and his runny nose stopped immediately. One side effect of babies using diapers is that they are very prone to diaperitis.

The ancient Chinese recipe "Liushen Pills" was taken and modified by Japan to develop the "Jiuxindan", which was once popular all over the world and was hailed as a "life-saving miracle drug", with annual sales of more than 100 million US dollars. The old Japanese Kampo medicine "Shorokuwan" has also been re-exported to China. Among the countries that apply for patents for traditional Chinese medicine in China, Japan, South Korea, the United States and Germany are the most enthusiastic. At the end of 2006, the National University of Porto, Portugal officially opened a Traditional Chinese Medicine major and enrolled the first batch of 27 students. Among foreign students who come to China to study natural sciences, the number of those studying traditional Chinese medicine ranks first.

Traditional Chinese medicine is gaining more and more attention throughout the world, but all this has nothing to do with China. my country's contribution is only to provide raw materials for Chinese herbal medicines in Japan, South Korea and other countries.

In China, we are already used to “three vegetarian dishes and one soup”. The so-called three elements and one soup refers to the combination of antibiotics, hormones and vitamins, which are added to glucose injection and administered intravenously. "Three ingredients and one soup" has become a "common prescription" for treating diseases in many hospitals. The consequence is that it causes bacterial resistance, which is not conducive to the treatment of the disease. And the Chinese people’s system is getting worse and worse.

This is our current situation. How do you feel after reading this? I guess he must be feeling very upset! So who will save ourselves? The answer is ourselves! Only we can save ourselves. I hope this article can inspire the Chinese people, and I also hope that more Chinese people can see it.