Recently,doctors of western medicine offers a reward of one hundred thousand yuan totraditional Chinese doctors for doubting that feeling the pulse palpation to findone pregnant in traditional Chinese medical science is delusive. Sometraditional Chinese doctors rise to the challenge, including Doctor Yangzhenand Lv Jilai.

Thiskind of challenge is no doubt a double-edged sword to traditional Chinese medicine.If Chinese medical doctors failed, “pseudoscience” would be put on traditionalChinese medical science; however, if they prevailed at last, social esteem totraditional Chinese medical science would be promoted.

Itis quite a good thing that numerous Chinese medical doctors have taken up theirgloves to defend the authority of traditional Chinese medicine. Nevertheless, takingsomebody's pulse is too simple to manifest the scientificity of traditional Chinesemedical science. Therefore, the “fight” between western and traditional Chinesemedicine shall be more complete.

Evenif traditional Chinese doctors win the challenge at last, that is only a self-defensein essence. While what the development of traditional Chinese medical sciencemost need is to advance the scientificalization and modernization. Furthermore,what traditional Chinese medical doctors should do is not merely challengeagainst western medical doctors, but to challenge themselves. Only in this waycan it develops.

Date:2014.10.19

Source: Guangming Online