Anecdotes.Are.Also.Very.Important
2026-03-12 14:12阅读:
Anecdotes
Are Also
Very
Important
After reading my blog
, a netizen commented :
“Respecting science and facts is our proper
attitude
!”
I replied : You are right !
But some
pseudo scholars who always want
to ruin TCM (
Traditional Chinese Medicine )
describe all facts of
effective treatment of
diseases by our
TCM as 'Individual
Cases'
,'Anecdotes
' or 'Personal
Skills', and
assert that all of
these facts are meaningless
to prove the curative
effect, because all these
facts are
'Efficacy
Hallucination' !
Is it really true ?
Then, even if an
example of effective treatment
in TCM
is truly an
'Anecdote', do the
'Anecdote'
really has no academic value ?
Now, let's talk about
an 'Anecdote ':
As we know, smallpox
used to be a highly
contagious disease,
which claimed hundreds
of millions of lives
.
At the end of the
18th century, the British
doctor Jenner learned
a commonly accepted
statement among the
dairy women and farmers
in the region he was
in :
“
Cowpox is a minor disease of cattle, and
it can also
be transmitted to people.
But if one is infected with cowpox,
he never
gets smallpox
anymore.”
Should this be
regarded as a kind of
'Anecdote' at that time, then ?
However, Dr. Jenner
realized that vaccinating
people with vaccinia
was a safe way to
immunize them
against smallpox if this
Anecdote the local dairy
workers and farmers
said were right .
So, Dr. Jenner made a
careful investigation
and
study
of this Anecdote.
In 1796, he was
finally convinced that the
statement in this
Anecdote
were correct
,
so he decided to test
the statement directly.
In this way, Dr.
Jenner carried out rational
analysis, scientific
tests and careful
evaluation almost
every clues of this
'Anecdote' .
At last, Dr. Jenner
had effectively promoted
the development of
human immunology,
and also
effectively promoted the
development
of medical science.
In the end, humans
effectively ended the
deadly
infectious disease of smallpox in
this way !
However, some
pseudo scholars around us
are
always
so dismissive of the
'Anecdotes'
of our
own TCM, so that they have always
lagged far behind others in professional
level.
In fact, any doctor,
if he really puts patients in
his
heart, he certainly cherishes any effective
treatment case, never distinguish whether the
treatment case comes from TCM or western
medicine, or whether the treatment case is
from the East or the West, even if it is just an
'Anecdote'!
.
Because medical
science is to
study how
to treat diseases
effectively, almost all of other
words are
something like
nonsense!
----------- Written
on September 3 , 2021
[ Refer to “就算逸闻又何妨?!
“
for the original text ]