At the beginning, Qin Shi Huang traveled to my home

Chapter 312: The Decline of Traditional Chinese Medicine

"Are there really so many medical books? Are they all willing to share them?" Hua Tuo asked. Although many people have written books, it does not mean that they are willing to share them with others for free.

After all, for them, they want to leave something behind as a family heirloom so that their descendants can follow their own path, right?

Zhang Zhongjing and his companions also had puzzled expressions. Just because they were willing to share medical books with others did not mean that all doctors were so generous.

People are selfish.

"Well, this is how it is in our later generations, and even if we share it, so what? Can we learn it by reading it?" Li Wu said that many people are not geniuses, so how could it be possible that they could learn it just by reading books.

Besides, which doctor has not gone through untold hardships, various practices, various attempts, and traveling around to practice medicine to achieve such success?

It's not something you can answer by simply reading a few books; it requires years of experience in practicing medicine and saving lives.

"Hahaha, the little immortal is right. It's us old antiques who can't figure it out. We are still struggling with these simple truths," Sun Simiao stroked his beard and laughed.

"That's true. Just as the immortal said, even if they really read our medical books, if they can learn something from them, we won't have done a good deed," Hua Tuo nodded. He had heard from the immortal that the back of his medical books were given to someone he was not particularly familiar with, which showed that he had no objection to others reading his medical books.

If possible, he would like more people to study medicine, but he also understands that at that time, studying medicine did not offer a good career path, and many people would rather become officials.

Moreover, wealthy people are not willing to study medicine, but many ordinary people are illiterate. Even if they want to study medicine, they need to have the conditions, right?

"In fact, it would be great if the books you seniors had were preserved, or if you had more disciples," Li Wu sighed. In their later generations, Chinese medicine is almost extinct. Many people no longer believe in it. Even if they get sick, they usually have to rely on Western medicine.

"What do you mean, little immortal?" Seeing the little immortal's depressed expression, the five people felt uneasy.

"That's right. In our later generations, Chinese medicine has fallen into disrepair. Almost no one studies it anymore. Some even think it's a scam. People now believe in Western medicine, which is foreign medical skills. Chinese medicine is almost forgotten," Li Wu said with tears in his eyes. "Of course, this is also due to the emergence of many quack doctors who prescribe random medicines to patients and don't know anything about Chinese medicine, so many people don't believe in Chinese medicine anymore."

"What!" The five people couldn't believe it. In the future, their traditional Chinese medicine was almost disappearing. Traditional Chinese medicine had existed for thousands of years, but now it was going to disappear.

No one believed it, how could the doctors accept it?

Even other people cannot accept it, and even don’t understand why they have to learn Western medicine from abroad. They don’t understand, isn’t their own country the largest and most powerful?

Especially the emperors, they thought so. Medicine is the first priority, and many people think so.

Many doctors were silent. In fact, their medical skills were not particularly good and could not compare to the five miracle doctors on the sky, but most of them had some real skills.

However, there are naturally many mediocre doctors. They feel very sad when they hear that traditional Chinese medicine has declined in later generations.

Is it because they hide their incompetence that such a useless doctor appears?

He is not even as good as the medicine boy who follows them, so how can he be qualified to be a doctor?

"Little immortal, how could this happen, how could this happen?" Hua Tuo's face looked unhappy and his eyes were red. The other four people were the same.

"Little Immortal, do you think it would be better if we showed our medical books to others and took in more disciples?"

"Now we have Tianmu, can we train more disciples? Even disciples from other periods are fine. In short, Chinese medicine cannot be left behind! These are all left by our ancestors, they are our own things. Why should we be outdone by that damned Western medicine?"

"Of course not. I don't recognize any Western medicine."

Several people discussed that although they didn't know Western medicine yet, they were confident in Chinese medicine and their own medical skills.

The reason why traditional Chinese medicine has been able to exist for so many years is naturally extraordinary.

If Western medicine is good, we can learn a thing or two from it, but it is impossible to let it replace traditional Chinese medicine, or even let traditional Chinese medicine be forgotten. How can this be allowed?

When the people in front of the sky curtain heard that the five miracle doctors wanted to accept disciples, and there was no restriction on dynasty, they all began to recommend themselves in the barrage, boasting about how old they were when they learned Chinese medicine, how many years they had studied, how many medical books they had read, and how many patients they had seen.

For this reason, he started to throw bad water on other people in the barrage, saying that they had only studied medicine for a few years and saved a few people, so they were not as good as himself. In short, he was showing off himself and belittling others.

I just want the miracle doctor to notice me. Although I don’t know how many disciples the miracle doctor will accept, I still have to get the miracle doctor’s attention.

Moreover, they believed that their status as doctors would be improved. After all, the five miracle doctors had reached the sky, and that was a different situation.

It is not like before, where people would be beaten to death if they offended the powerful, or officials would cause trouble for no reason and they would have no way to deal with it.

They even dared to cause trouble for a small official, let alone others whose status was similar to that of ordinary people, only a little higher.

Sky

"What the predecessors said is that such a good traditional Chinese medicine must be passed down naturally and it must be passed down forever.

However, Western medicine is not that bad. We can take its essence and remove its dross, and our medical skills in later generations have made a lot of progress.

We can quickly resolve things like colds and fevers, so each has its own way. "Western medicine is naturally not bad, it can solve problems quickly. Traditional Chinese medicine is about conditioning people, which takes a longer time.

The five people looked at each other and thought, this shows that Western medicine is still somewhat good, but they can't abandon their traditional Chinese medicine, right?

So, when they get to the library, they will look at some medical books from later generations.

If it's really good, they can also borrow one or two.

Many people in front of the sky curtain think that this Western medicine seems to be good. It can actually treat fever quickly. In the eyes of many people, fever can easily burn the brain, or even cause death from high fever, which happens quite often.

So if many people have a fever, it means they may die. As for sending them to the hospital, it's not that they don't want to, but mainly because they are poor and the hospital is far away, and many rural doctors don't have good enough medical skills.

"Forget it, I won't mention this. The library also has a lot of introductions to Western medicine. You seniors can take a look at them when the time comes. Now let's continue talking about Senior Sun Simiao," Li Wu changed the subject. She didn't know much about Chinese and Western medicine. They each had their own advantages.

And now many people are talking about combining Chinese and Western medicine, but Western medicine is still the main focus.