The "Four Liquids Theory" of Western traditional medicine can still be heard to this day, and they also use prayer, divination, exorcism and other methods to cure incurable diseases. And in terms of the concept of hygiene, the West in the Middle Ages was too far behind.
The plague of 1666 and the fire of 1667 were landmark events in 17th-century United Kingdom. Samuel · In his diary, Peppis describes those terrible times, in which he speaks of the erratic droppings of excrement falling from the windows above in the city of London, and the nightpots of the citizens being poured straight out of the windows.
Jonathan · Swift, who was born in troubled times, describes the streets of London in the following sentences: meat stalls, dung heaps, offal and waste produced in blood, drowned puppies, fishy sprats, all soaked in mud, dead cats mixed with turnip leaves tumbling down with the torrent.
If you are interested, you can check the relevant information, the degree of poor sanitation in Western cities before the Industrial Revolution exceeded the lower limit of imagination.
Why weren't the cities of the ancient West big? Because their cities can't handle too much household waste.
Why were the big cities in ancient times in the East? Because we have known for a long time about building sewers and centralizing the disposal of garbage, such as the well-designed sewer system under the palace of Abo.
The Chinese nation is the nation that is best at systems thinking, whether it is protecting health or building cities, this way of looking at problems from the perspective of God is thousands of years ahead of the West.
(3) In medical treatment led by Western medicine, chronic diseases are common and inevitable
Under the leadership of Western medicine, not only our countrymen's chronic diseases will face a "blowout", but even the United States, the most developed Western medicine, has more chronic diseases!
Reference News Network reported on July 30, 2022: More than half of young people in United States have at least one chronic disease. According to a new study published by the United States CDC's Morbidity and Mortality Weekly on the 29th, about 40 million young people between the ages of 18 and 34 United States have chronic health problems such as obesity, depression, high blood pressure, high cholesterol, asthma and arthritis.
According to research by the United States CDC research team, 2019 data shows that nearly 54% of young adults now have at least one chronic health condition and 22% have at least two chronic health conditions.
According to the report, unhealthy lifestyles often accompany patients with chronic diseases. The team found that young people with chronic medical conditions were more likely to drink heavily, smoke or lack physical activity than those without chronic conditions.
According to reports, the above data is based on a telephone survey conducted in 2019. The telephone survey involved more than 67,000 young people between the ages of 18 and 34 across the United States.
Many of the thinking and treatment methods of Western medicine are wrong, they like to use "violent" methods to perform surgery, excision, radiotherapy, chemotherapy, etc., which violates the law of harmonious growth and growth of the human body, so it is often that the more the disease is treated, the more the disease is treated, the more powerful the disease! As a result, there is a strange phenomenon that the more investment, the more patients, and the shorter the lifespan! United States is a prominent representative in this regard! Let's take a look at the authoritative report of 2020-10-26 "CCTV News": high medical costs have not led to an increase in national life expectancy. United States has the highest per capita health care expenditure in the world. According to OECD data in 2019, United States per capita health care spending (purchasing power parity) is $11,072, far ahead of the second place Switzerland ($7,732), and far behind Germany ($6,646), United Kingdom ($4,653) and Japan ($4,823). Not only that, but United States's total annual medical expenditure is higher than that of Europe and Japan, and twice its military spending.
The United States life expectancy (78.9 years, according to the United Nations Development Programme in 2019) is not commensurate with the huge amount of health care investment in United States, which is lower than that of Western European countries, Japan and Korea, and is the lowest among developed countries. Former White House senior adviser Izakil · Emmanuel noted that "United States, which accounts for less than 5% of the world's population, pays 50% of the world's drug sales prices." At least 19 million adults United States United States adults have had to travel to Canada or Mexico countries because of high domestic drug prices, according to the Kessel Family Foundation, a public health nonprofit. 2022-10-28Southern Weekend also reported that United States is a global leader in the field of medicine and is the "leader" in the Nobel Prize in medicine and other fields.
Currently, the United States spends about $3.6 trillion a year on health care, five times its military spending and more than the gross domestic product (GDP) of its ally United Kingdom. United States has long been criticized for its health performance, spending more than 18 percent of gross domestic product (GDP) and having the second-lowest life expectancy among OECD countries. In fiscal 2020, it spent nearly $3.6 trillion on health care, or 17% of its gross national product (GNP). As a result, many United States people question where the huge fiscal spending is going.
According to data released by the National Bureau of Statistics of United States, medical insurance spending is $2.1 trillion, accounting for 58% of total medical expenditure; Hospitals, doctors and assistants cost $800 billion, accounting for 22% of total health expenditure; The cost of drugs is $540 billion, accounting for 15% of total health expenditure. In addition, medical equipment costs accounted for 5% of total spending, at $160 billion. From the above, it can be seen that "United States is a global leader in the field of medicine, and is a leader in the Nobel Prize in Medicine and other fields", and the United States of Western medicine is quite developed. And the country's investment is also quite high, accounting for more than 18% of gross domestic product (GDP), equivalent to 5 times its military spending, but the average life expectancy is the penny! This is a very thought-provoking question!
Due to the limitations and unscientific nature of Western medicine, although they claim to be scientific, in the eyes of traditional Chinese medicine, they only look at the appearance of examination data, but do not deeply investigate the nature of the disease and the cause. Western medicine has its own limitations that cannot be shaken off. When antibiotics, scalpels, and hormones are exhausted, sometimes Western medicine is helpless. Taking gallstones as an example, a one-size-fits-all operation can cut out the diseased gallbladder, treating the symptoms but not the root cause, and treating them like cutting leeks. The gallbladder was removed by surgery, and the gallbladder will no longer have stones, and the organs and ducts that can be closely related to the gallbladder are still there, and the factors that form stones have not been eliminated. This is also one of the reasons why the greater the investment in Western medicine, the greater the error, the more diseases, and the shorter the lifespan! (To be continued)