The Modern Chinese Medical History of Qi (pathogenic qi) and Bacteria-The knowledge transformation of exogenous febrile disease and daily life
Does anyone infected with SARS, influenza or statutory infectious diseases dare to attend the clinic of Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM)□ Can Chinese medicine practitioners deal with those vicious and invisible bacteria and viruses? It is doubtful whether TCM can kill bacteria or viruses. Perhaps this book can provide you with a brand new direction of thinking which is different from the previous perspectives for the aforementioned questions.
Based on the history of medicine, this book guides readers to explore and review the history of TCM’s fight against bacteria in Chinese society approximately a hundred years ago. In the era of Republic of China when the controversy between western medicine and TCM was intense, how could TCM respond to the impact of western bacteriology and use its own knowledge system of heat diseases to develop a TCM-based concept of infectious disease? The author intends to awaken Chinese medicine practitioners’ knowledge and confidence in their own systems by studying the history of medicine. Moreover, the author also hopes that more people and intellectuals (including modern western medicine practitioners and scientists) can understand the value of TCM, free themselves from the shadow of “useless TCM” for centuries, get rid of stereotypes and seek for a method to integrate various concepts, in order to provide themselves with another feasible technique and thinking in the aspects of disease treatment and daily health care.
