This book focuses on the modern Chinese society with fierce conflicts and debates between Chinese medicine and western medicine. It is trying to reproduce how Chinese medicine used its own knowledge system of exogenous febrile diseases in the process of scientific experiments of western medicine and gradually occupying the national health sovereignty to build a set of TCM (traditional Chinese medicine) infectious disease studies, and find the space for Chinese medicine to function in daily life. Influenced by modern medicine, many of TCM clinical techniques are in a "quasi lost" status. There are very limited of national investment, which hinders the application of traditional medicine theory and skills. Through the study of medical history, the author wishes to improve self-awareness of understanding and confidence of traditional Chinese medicine scholars in their own system, and expects more researchers and intellectuals to assurance the value of traditional Chinese medicine culture, come out of the shadow of "abolishing traditional Chinese medicine" for a hundred years, sublate the stereotype, and also provide another possibility for practical treatment and daily recuperation.
The Contest of Modern Chinese and Western Medicine : Antibacterial History of Traditional Chinese Medicine