Internationalization is not a simple game between China and the West

In the past 20 years, the internationalization of traditional Chinese medicine has made some achievements After all, traditional Chinese medicine has been exported to 168 countries and regions, making most countries in the world know about traditional Chinese medicine The overall export data of traditional Chinese medicine has been rising continuously for many years, which has puzzled many people's eyes It's time for us to analyze the current situation of the internationalization of traditional Chinese medicine with a scientific and dialectical method, calmly reflect on the reasons for the predicament of the internationalization of traditional Chinese medicine, and explore an international road suitable for the actual situation of traditional Chinese medicine "Cutting one's feet to fit one's shoes and making one's whole body westernized" destroys traditional Chinese Medicine In today's economic integration, all walks of life in China have emphasized the need to integrate with the world Many people believe that "traditional Chinese medicine should also actively integrate with the world in order to survive", "internationalization of traditional Chinese medicine is to transform traditional Chinese medicine according to the standards of Western medicine, explain traditional Chinese medicine with western medicine theory", "let Chinese medicine and Western medicine communicate with the same theoretical system (the theory of Western Medicine), and traditional Chinese medicine will naturally be internationalized " In fact, traditional Chinese medicine is totally different from western medicine It has its own uniqueness in theoretical basis, structure, thinking mode and research method For example, traditional Chinese medicine and Western medicine have different views on cancer Western medicine treats cancer as a kind of "life and death" approach After Western Medicine finds the tumor, it is first removed by surgery, and then all the remaining tumor cells are killed by radiotherapy and chemotherapy In this process, the hair tissue and gastrointestinal tract tissue with relatively rapid proliferation are bound to be damaged due to their similar characteristics with tumor cells In the course of a "kill all" treatment, the patients' body and mind suffered great damage The tumor cells were temporarily controlled, but the quality of life of the patients who could bear this kind of toss was greatly reduced Traditional Chinese medicine regards tumor as the imbalance of body balance It can achieve the body's rebalancing through reconciliation, stimulate its own immune regulation mechanism through traditional Chinese medicine, control tumor growth and even eliminate tumor Some patients' tumors did not disappear, but they could coexist harmoniously with patients for more than ten years There is also a gap between the concepts of Chinese and Western medicine Taking the traditional Chinese medicine Angong Niuhuang priceway pill as an example, Angong Niuhuang priceway pill is composed of heat clearing, blood cooling, detoxification, fire clearing, phlegm clearing and heart clearing drugs, which is a prescription for the treatment of the syndrome of shenfainting and Qiaoguan Traditional Chinese medicine, together with zhibaodan and zixuedan, calls them "three treasures of Liangkai", and regards them as the first of the three treasures with the best position Throughout the world, its effect is almost irreplaceable In recent years, the clinical application also found that Angong Niuhuang price pill has a very significant effect on consciousness disorder or coma caused by brain injury, severe hepatitis, infant severe pneumonia, epidemic encephalomyelitis, encephalitis B, organophosphorus pesticide poisoning, snake bite, etc According to the standard of Western medicine, Angong Niuhuang price pill contains cinnabar price (mercuric sulfide) and realgar price (arsenic sulfide) These two components have greater toxicity to kidney Taking this heavy metal drug seriously exceeding the standard will cause great damage to the body, especially for the patients who are weak, the drug with heavy metal exceeding the standard is strictly prohibited Traditional Chinese medicine believes that the price of cinnabar in Angong Niuhuang price pill has the effect of calming down the mind and opening up the mind, while the price of realgar has the effect of detoxification and eliminating pollution It is an essential component of Angong Niuhuang price pill in the treatment of cerebral coma If the internationalization of traditional Chinese medicine is based on the standards of Western medicine, Angong Niuhuang price pill, in order to meet the standards of Western medicine, needs to "cut off the price of cinnabar and the price of realgar" It has barely reached the standard of Western medicine and thrown away the characteristics of traditional Chinese medicine This kind of Angong Niuhuang price pill is no longer a traditional Chinese medicine, and it is bound to have no special curative effect Therefore, the internationalization of traditional Chinese medicine must be based on the theory of traditional Chinese medicine in China, not to meet the Western standards, not to use the theory and thinking mode of Western medicine and Western medicine to guide the internationalization of traditional Chinese medicine The pain of plant medicine standard ≠ traditional Chinese medicine standard has been puzzling the internationalization of traditional Chinese medicine Because there is no international standard of Chinese medicine for reference, western countries basically use western medicine or food standards to impose strict quality on Chinese medicine products Traditional Chinese medicine originated in China, and we have more say in the formulation of its standards In the current context of competing for the right to formulate standards for traditional Chinese medicine, it is imperative to tailor international standards for traditional Chinese medicine, and the international standards for traditional Chinese medicine should also be formulated by China The formulation of standards should respect traditional Chinese medicine to a great extent In the process of formulation, the latest science and technology, means, methods and equipment should be integrated into the research, formulation, use and promotion of Chinese medicine standards, rather than the standardization of Chinese medicine into western medicine The international standard of traditional Chinese medicine does not focus on the number of a single chemical component of traditional Chinese medicine, but on the stability and consistency of the quality of the whole traditional Chinese medicine At the same time, it should be pointed out that traditional Chinese medicine is different from botanical medicine, and the standards of western botanical medicine cannot be equal to or superior to the standards of traditional Chinese medicine Traditional Chinese medicine and plant medicine are two completely different systems Traditional Chinese medicine is based on the theory of traditional Chinese medicine, which stresses that "the monarch and his subjects assist the minister, rise and fall, ups and downs", and is the overall treatment theory Botanical medicine is a simple extraction of single medicine or mixed medicine, focusing on the active ingredients, which is similar to the western medicine's anti-treatment theory In fact, the standard of western botanical medicine is the standard of Western medicine covered with plant coat Only when we have our own international standards of traditional Chinese medicine, can we truly protect the precious wealth left by our ancestors, and have the opportunity to make use of the standards of traditional Chinese medicine in China to communicate with the international market, instead of being tired of dealing with international trade frictions, can we truly make traditional Chinese medicine go global Service trade and goods trade are synchronized with the "poisoning event of traditional Chinese medicine" we often see, which brings many shadows to the internationalization of traditional Chinese medicine In a strict sense, traditional Chinese medicine is all prescription drugs, which are treated by doctors according to patients' specific conditions However, the traditional botanical drugs in the West are different Because most of them are over-the-counter drugs, patients can choose drugs directly according to their own diseases, which is relatively safe to take At present, many kinds of accidents of traditional Chinese medicine are caused by people mistakenly thinking that traditional Chinese medicine is safe without side effects In the absence of guidance, the main reason is the lack of effective guidance Therefore, the internationalization of traditional Chinese medicine can not only go out, without the guidance of traditional Chinese medicine, traditional Chinese medicine not only will not bring curative effect to patients, but also may bring various negative effects, so the internationalization of traditional Chinese medicine and traditional Chinese medicine must be parallel We should vigorously develop the trade of TCM services, let TCM services go out together, take medicine with medicine, promote each other and develop together The internationalization of traditional Chinese medicine needs to take the great development of Chinese traditional culture as an opportunity to drive development So far, China has established more than 350 Confucius Institutes in 106 countries around the world As a part of traditional Chinese medicine, it is reasonable and necessary to take Confucius Institute as a platform to promote traditional Chinese medicine culture Through the leading role of culture, let the western world better understand traditional Chinese medicine, which will play a key role in promoting the internationalization of traditional Chinese medicine Being neither complacent nor westernized is not the ideal path for internationalization of Chinese medicine Internationalization of Chinese medicine must go out of a new path of innovation, create its own international standards, explore a new way that is suitable for Chinese medicine itself to make the world understand and facilitate communication, and at the same time, take advantage of the opportunity of China's traditional culture to go abroad to open up a new world of Chinese medicine internationalization.