Wu Yiling: Chinese medicine faces the dilemma of macro affirmation and micro negation

2014-03-06 source: Science and Technology Daily: "although the party and the government adhere to the policy of attaching equal importance to both Chinese and Western medicine and propose to support and develop traditional Chinese medicine, some departments are not so in terms of specific policies." When it comes to the development of traditional Chinese medicine, Wu Yiling, academician of the Chinese Academy of engineering and chairman of Yiling pharmaceutical industry, seems helpless "Now the development of traditional Chinese medicine is facing an awkward situation of macro affirmation and micro negation." Wu said the dilemma involved education, science and technology, new drug approval, patent protection, price and other aspects For example, in the aspect of education, "those who can't see a doctor, those who can't understand traditional Chinese medicine, those who can't understand research medicine, and those who can't see a doctor, don't understand traditional Chinese medicine, are separated from each other", and the disconnection between basic theory and clinical practice, as well as treatment prescription medicine, leads to the lack of breakthroughs in traditional Chinese medicine Some government departments do not approve the patent of compound traditional Chinese medicine at all because they think that the material basis and mechanism of action of compound traditional Chinese medicine are unclear and the content of science and technology is low "In the examination and approval of new drugs, TCM syndromes are prohibited, which has strangled the emergence of such famous TCM syndromes as Liuwei Dihuang pill and Buzhong Yiqi pill." In addition, the pricing standard for new chemical drugs is 30% of the sales expense rate, 45% of the profit rate, and "only 10% of the patented traditional Chinese medicines refer to ordinary new drugs" However, in terms of charging, prescriptions that best reflect the level of traditional Chinese medicine do not allow charging, which leads to many traditional Chinese medicine hospitals to hang traditional Chinese medicine cards to do western medicine, mainly through equipment inspection, surgery and other income The existence of these problems "seriously hinders the healthy development of TCM discipline and industry" Wu Yiling expressed that he hoped relevant departments could face up to traditional Chinese medicine and respect the development law of traditional Chinese medicine, "reexamine the promotion role of traditional Chinese medicine in contemporary medicine, evaluate the important role of traditional Chinese medicine in medical reform, increase the support for basic theoretical research of traditional Chinese medicine, and let traditional Chinese medicine play a greater role in improving people's health level"